GE Covenant Church
277 Hawthorne
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
630-469-5405
info@gecovenant.org

Our Denomination

Glen Ellyn Evangelical Covenant Church is a member of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America (ECC). Founded in 1885 by Swedish Immigrants, the ECC values the Bible as the Word of God, the gift of God's grace, the ever-deepening spiritual life that comes through faith in Jesus Christ, the importance of extending God's love and compassion to a hurting world, and the strength that comes from unity within diversity.  To learn more about our beliefs, see our Affirmations of Faith.

In recent years, the ECC has been growing rapidly, and now consists of more than 700 churches in the U.S. and Canada.  About 200,000 people are affiliated with the Covenant in North America.  The ECC continues to build on its immigrant heritage: over twenty percent of our congregations today are either ethnic or multi-ethnic.  The Covenant currently is also involved in 14 different major foreign mission fields, not counting several countries in which short-term missionaries are serving.

Church planting is a major thrust for the denomination at this time.  More than 50,000 people attend Covenant churches that we have started in the last decade, and last year more than 12,000 people came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ through the ministries of our Covenant churches.

Some of the significant ministries of the ECC include:

Our congregation has a long tradition of commitment to the denomination.  Several of our members serve on denomination and conference boards, and many of the children and youth of the church enjoy attending our conference's well regarded Covenant Harbor and Covenant Point summer camps.

To learn more about the ECC and our ministries, visit our denomination's website at http://www.covchurch.org/ or see the RSS headlines below, which are updated daily.  To learn more about the Central Conference of the ECC, to which our church belongs, visit the central conference website at  http://centralconf.org/.

From the Covenant News Wire...

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CHICAGO, IL (July 2, 2009) – Given the economic turmoil that continues to plague our country, Covenant News Service is interested in learning how local Evangelical Covenant churches are...
CHICAGO, IL (July 2, 2009) – Covenant Offices will be closed Friday, July 3, in observance of the July Fourth holiday.The daily online news report will be idle on Friday and resume on Monday....
CHICAGO, IL (July 1, 2009) - Hardly a week goes by that we do not receive a few comments from readers on stories published as part of the Covenant online news report.We will share from time to time...
PORTLAND, OR (July 1, 2009) – Delegates to the now-concluded 124th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church approved a Mission and Ministry Budget of $20,186,000.The budget is $359,000...
PORTLAND, OR (July 1, 2009) – The children’s ministry during the 124th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church gave kids an opportunity to serve in new ways.Children made baby...
CHICAGO, IL (June 30, 2009) – A new and improved Paul Carlson Partnership (PCP) website made its debut today containing a number of new features, new resources and links to related content, in...
STUTTGART, GERMANY (June 29, 2009) – Three German churches raised $16,000 through special offerings and are sending the money to Hope Community Covenant Church in Detroit so that it can fund a...
PORTLAND, OR (June 28, 2009) – For the convenience of readers, a special 124th Annual Meeting news page has been created where all Annual Meeting-related stories from the just-concluded meeting...


 

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