East Coast Covenanter - Winter 2019 Issue

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EAST COAST COVENANTER

A TRI ANN UA L P U BLI CAT I O N O F T H E E AS T COAS T CON FE R E N CE OF T HE E VA N G E L ICA L COV ENA NT CH U R CH

WINTER 2019

HOWARD K. BURGOYNE

SUPERINTENDENT EAST COAST CONFERENCE

"REFRESHED, RENEWED, RECALLED" In November and December, I was on sabbatical for six weeks, where I sojourned with my wife on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

David Ellingson describes a ministry sabbatical as “a time to relearn and rehearse that critical capacity to reflect, which transforms dreams of vacation to new visions of vocation.” The core practices of this sabbatical were rest, recreation, reading, and prayer. Psalm 131 set the table for my sojourn: My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters Or things too wonderful for me.

But I have calmed myself and quieted my ambitions, I am like a weaned child with its mother; Like a weaned child I am content.

(Psalm 131:1-2, NIV) Weaning is both a posture and a practice – transitioning from milk to meat, from crying to speaking, from being carried to walking.

Weaning is not limited to our childhood; in every stage of life there are weanings to work

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through. At my stage of life and vocation, this has involved letting my children become adults, watching them move away; it has involved letting God direct my path in new directions, pruning away possibilities in favor of probabilities, zeroing in on new visions of vocation, of self-care, and of continuing service as Superintendent.

fresh thirst for intimacy, vulnerability, and contentment. God’s gifts of perspective and hope are wonderful souvenirs – like the sea shells and driftwood trinkets now on my shelf – tangible, and intangible reminders of God’s nearness and never-ending care. As David’s Psalm concludes, “Israel, put your hope in the Lord, both now and forevermore. “

A highlight of most every day in my sojourn was a long walk on the beach, usually right at the intersection of surf, sand, and sky. It is at this trinitarian juncture that a lively dance is in constant motion, negotiating and renegotiating their relationship. No two walks were exactly the same. The ever-changing surf both gave and took, penetrating and embracing the sand. The winds carried aloft the sand and foam in swirls and tumbles.

This communion bears a relentless witness to God’s continuity and creativity.

It was a blessing to be away – and now it is a great joy to return – refreshed, renewed, recalled to “new visions of vocation” – in the empty nest years, in loving partnership with my wife, and in renewed focus and hope at the trinitarian juncture we know as East Coast Conference.

I was blessed to be able to read deeply too.

My primary mentors in texts were T.F. Torrance, Richard B. Hays, and Hans Urs Von Balthasar. Their focus on Christ, Scripture, and Creed were stretching, strengthening, and illuminating for me. Being weaned from the myriad duties of ministry awakened

From the Superintendent: Annual Meeting Redesign Preview A Case for the Annual Meeting

Missional Health

Cultivating Generosity All Year Round

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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit – Amen!

Yours because of Him,

Have a question for Howard?

Email him at howard@eastcoastconf.org

20 Years with the Seafarers 6 Spiritual Directors Luncheon 6 Church Planting Update 7 Save the Dates 8 Transitions 8

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EAST COAST CONFERENCE 52 Missionary Road Cromwell, CT 06416 860.635.2691

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ANNUAL MEETING

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REDESIGN PREVIEW Rev. Barbara Ettinger

Evangelical Covenant Church

915 Plumtree Rd, Springfield, MA EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT

Did you know we are in the middle of a three year redesign of the East Coast Conference Annual Meeting? We surveyed participants and the results were definitive: you are asking for leadership development and equipping spaces inside the Annual Meeting. In response, your conference staff has set about to deliver just that. At our Annual Meeting, April 26-27, 2019 in Springfield, MA, we will engage together in the leadership of our Conference through the business, worship, fellowship, and learning we do together. This year’s Annual Meeting theme, “By the Spirit [LIVE],” based on Galatians 5:25 invites us all to do whatever we do in service to God and others by the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. Rev. Angela Yee, Executive Director of Ministry Development for the Evangelical Covenant Church, will be our keynote preacher for the Friday night worship service. Then, on Saturday morning, all participants will choose from among four outstanding workshops to continue a deeper dive into how they might lead, serve, and plan by the Spirit. Register online and choose your workshop at: ecconfevents.com.

Becoming a Multiplier: Increasing the Leadership Capacity of Your Church Leadership capacity is often the key and the bottleneck to the capacity of the entire church system. Growth and ministry fruitfulness plateau when leadership capacity plateaus, but they have the chance to grow exponentially as leadership capacity grows.

By learning to increase the leadership capacity of your church - by developing leaders and giving away authority - you will increase the capacity of the entire system. This seminar will provide some practical tools and resources to get you started on this journey, or to help you take your leadership development to the next level.

Presenter: Rev. Sarah Cowan Johnson, Executive Pastor, Sanctuary Network, Providence, RI

Crescendo: Because Aging isn’t Optional. But How You Do it Is! Did you know that every eight seconds someone in this country turns 65? This is a largely overlooked demographic, often put out to pasture, rather than challenged to live lives of lasting purpose.

Crescendo is an initiative of Make and Deepen Disciples designed to stimulate your congregation to energize and mobilize your 55+

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ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 26- 27, 2 019

members to make a difference in this world. This workshop will introduce you to the key Crescendo concepts and inform you about what Crescendo has to offer your congregation.

Presenter: Rev. Susan Scott, Associate Pastor, Highrock Acton and Crescendo Coach, East Coast Conference

Beholding and Proclaiming: Preaching Workshop for Pastors What if preaching could do more than inform the mind, but it could also be an instrument to transform the soul of both the preacher and the listener? Have you ever considered what could happen if local churches (not just seminaries or Bible schools) became the intentional breeding ground for the next generation of preachers? The aim of this workshop is to empower church planters and local churches to create preaching pipelines to develop the next generation of preachers while at the same time offering tools to deepen their own souls as preachers.

First twenty pastors to sign up for the workshop will receive a copy of Kristian Hernandez’s’ book, courtesy of the East Coast Conference.

Presenter: Rev. Kristian Hernandez, Lead Pastor Hope Astoria, Queens, NY; author of Beholding and Proclaiming.

Organizing for Mission: Seven Systems of a Strong Healthy Church All churches want to accomplish their God-given purpose, but they are not always organized to do what they intend to do. This workshop will help pastors and leaders work together on determining an effective structure to evaluate and accomplish everything that God hopes you will in order to fulfill His purposes through your church.

If you’re stuck, or want to be more fruitful in ministry this year, you’ll want to be at this workshop, which one pastor described as “the best information I have received in my entire ministry career!”

Presenter: Rev. Kreig Gammelgard, Assoc. Superintendent; Director of Missional Health, East Coast Conference

A CASE FOR THE EAST COAST CONFERENCE ANNUAL MEETING Quaime Lee HIGHROCK SOUTHWEST BOSTON

Like me, perhaps you joined a church like Highrock after trying it out for a while and feeling the irresistible tug of resonance from the community of believers, the challenging sermon, or simply someone reaching out to make that first service seem a little more like home. And yet how many of us who didn't come from an Evangelical Covenant Church stop to consider that Highrock, as well our brothers and sisters at the other churches, are part of a fellowship greater still, rich with diversity of thought and identity, but joined together by the power of the holy Spirit? I invite you to consider representing your Covenant church at this year's East Coast Conference Annual Meeting.

The East Coast Conference, founded in 1889, is an arm of the ECC, constituted of over 90 churches across 12 states in the Eastern US. The Annual Meeting is a required business meeting of both the members churches of the Conference and its administrative leaders charged with supporting the pastors, lay leaders, member and attendees of these churches.

When I got in my car around noontime of Friday, April 27th (2018), I loaded my overnight bag and programmed my Google Waze navigator knowing a little of this and expecting a meeting with some reports and voting, and workshop or two. How small was my

perspective. This was not simply a two-day business meeting. It was a grand family reunion.

By nature, I am very much the introvert and so when going to conferences for work or otherwise, I often enter with trepidation, finding the registration table then scoping out my surroundings. As I entered the venue, the beautiful Bethany Covenant Church in Bethany, CT for the obligatory nametag

collection, I was greeted by none other than Jeff Lingenfelter's mother, Nan, who welcomed me with an open spirit that seemed to drive away the cold, wet sop that I felt after a long, hungry ride through torrents. Next to her was Sandi Lee, the Office Manager of the East Coast Conference, who not only gave me my conference materials, but a sense that they were expecting me. I had never been to an annual meeting, so my diss-ease from these dual extensions of hospitality was thick: these people don't know me. Why the effort?

As I found my seat in Bethany's sanctuary, I came to see why Nan and Sandi were so welcoming. Robert's Rules of Order? Check.

A gavel wielded dexterously but mercifully by HR Arlington's Pastor Eugene Kim? Check.

They even had a parliamentarian! But it was so much more. This was a family gathering.

As my fellow delegate Jonathan Choe and I sat and observed, what I experienced was not simply a collection of reports. Rather we bore witness to a family of fellow believers from throughout New England all the way down to the Mason Dixon line, sharing what God was doing in their faith communities. We saw representatives from churches in Brockton, New York's West Side and East Village and Jersey City being joyfully celebrated as new members of the conference even as seven other church communities presented their application for membership, including Highrock Acton, Highrock Quincy, and our friends at Newton Covenant. Seeing people of color and women welcomed into leadership as we saw vignettes of their unique expressions of faith and discipleship in Christian community was so deeply enriching. As hands were laid upon these new ECC shepherds and the rest of us extended our hands in prayer, there was such a profound sense for me of the solidarity that

binds us. We may look, talk, and worship differently, but we are joined together by Christ.

The reports from Pilgrim Pines and the New England Seafarer's mission were so impassioned. One could tell that these men loved their jobs, but also saw their work as a vocation that, although likely exhausting at times, was fired by a flame for serving God's creation.

Perhaps most resonant were the charges from leadership. East Coast Conference Superintendent, Howard Burgoyne, called on us to "fall in love with the gospel again." This was complemented by ECC Executive Minister of Make and Deepen Disciples Michelle Sanchez's very personal illustration of how the message BLESS (Begin with Prayer; Listen with care; Eat together; Serve in love; Share your story) really can play out is helping make the gospel real and relevant to the lives of those around us. BLESS is more than a thoughtful catch phrase, but a deliberate, prayer-centered commitment to open our lives more fully to those have not accepted the salvation of Christ.

I would like to say that I made an army of new friends, but if you knew me, you would probably agree that is probably not so. Rather that brief afternoon, overnight and morning reaffirmed for me that I am part of something more. I am a Highrocker yes, but also a member of the East Coast Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. I look forward to when I can see my family members again and I hope that you, dear reader, can come with me.

Register online at: ecconfevents.com.

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MISSIONAL HEALTH COMES FROM MISSIONAL ENGAGEMENT & EXPERIENCES Kreig Gammelgard

If you look closely, you’ll notice that I have a new job title: Director of Missional Health.

While I will continue to serve our churches by encouraging and resourcing their missional health and vitality, I will also be encouraging and incorporating missional engagement

DIRECTOR OF MISSIONAL HEALTH, ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT

You are never the same. Your heart has been enlarged. The Holy Spirit helps you see others with new eyes. You have new vision for God using you for his kingdom’s purposes!

among our churches.

Because of these theological convictions Just after the beginning of the new year,

and missional experiences that have shaped

I sent to all of our pastors a survey asking

my life, I am currently collaborating with

for responses from them (or a person in

Mark Seversen, the Director of Missional

their church) about the local and global

Congregations for our Serve Globally

partnerships that each church has to advance

denominational priority, to organize East

Christ’s purposes in the world.

Coast Conference Missions experiences for our churches. Imagine participating and

(Please go online and complete the survey at:

engaging in mission with your friends and

bit.ly/ECCmissionsurvey)

colleagues this fall! Imagine doing God’s work with God’s people whom you love! Imagine

So many of our churches are serving and

your heart being softened and enlarged, your

supporting ministries and partners that are

eyes and imagination for ministry being

advancing God’s agenda here on earth as it

increased, and your plans and strategies for

is in heaven… feeding the hungry, clothing

being better together as partner churches on

the poor, and caring for a multiplicity of

mission together being enhanced on such a

significant needs. I hold to the conviction that

trip!

when a church focuses their attention outside the walls of their church to care for the needs

If you are interested in a trip to Colombia,

of their community or our world, that church

to learn from our Covenant sisters and

is not only more missional and healthy, but

brothers in South America, about serving

also more blessed by the God who calls them

those previously trapped in sexual slavery; or

to respond to the needs of those around them.

learning from our European Covenant friends

(Mathew 25:35)

about their significant ministries among refugees from around the world; or some

When a church wants to improve its missional

other missional adventure for the purpose of

health, they need look no further than toward

advancing your missional engagement, either

their neighbors. When a church is willing to

complete the survey link above, or contact me

go on a short-term cross-cultural mission trip,

this month. More details will be revealed at

the participants come home with a new vision

our Conference Annual Meeting (April 26-27,

for their own community. Ask anyone who

2019) in Springfield, MA.

has ever experienced such a trip!

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Tips of Cultivating

Generosity

from Cohort Pilot Churches

Our generosity team presented the cultivating generosity vision at our wider council and it was very well received. We had a really intentional, spirit-led conversation which was quite lively and much overdue.

Community Covenant Springfield VA We’ve launched a monthly testimony in worship by our Generosity cohort team members, one per month, for the next several months, using the simple template of why we give and what we hope to gain from it.

Thomaston Covenant Thomaston CT We recognize a wide variety of differences in our congregation’s familiarity with generosity as part of their discipleship, so we decided to give specific suggested steps.

Here’s what we said, “If you do not currently give, consider whether God is leading you to start giving. If you already give periodically, perhaps it would be feasible to start giving regularly, either through our offering envelopes, or giving online through the church website. Maybe you are among those God would prompt to start giving at a regular percentage of your yearly income. If you already give regularly as a percentage of your income, consider increasing that percentage by 1% or 2%.

Trinity Covenant Manchester, CT

CULTIVATING GENEROSITY ALL YEAR ROUND Rev. Barbara Ettinger

EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT

You’ve heard it before, “Jesus talked about money and financial stewardship more than any other topic.” And, while it seems like that couldn’t possibly be so, it is true that at least 11 of the 39 parables of Jesus spoke to financial matters, generosity, and money.

Yet talking about money isn’t the norm in our churches. We usually reserve at most a stewardship month--or at least a stewardship Sunday for discussing the topic, and it isn’t usually our favorite month of the year.

But what if generosity were seen instead as a discipleship opportunity? What if helping people understand the why and how and joy of generosity truly could become a vibrant aspect of their participation in the kingdom of God? These goals have birthed a remarkable opportunity for a competitively selected cohort of five Conference churches and one mission agency to participate in the first ever Covenant Generosity Cohort. Featuring the expertise of the renowned Lake Institute on Faith and Giving, the Covenant Financial Leadership Initiative, and your East Coast Conference staff, the Generosity Cohort is being piloted here in the East Coast Conference and tested for use in other Conferences.

The world has changed, and these shifts are influencing how and why Christians give. Old models, assumptions, and expectations about how to nurture generosity have diminished impact and new forms have emerged. It is not that people aren’t giving; it is that Christians are giving differently.

This vibrant congregational cohort experience is examining these dynamics, as together, we explore what this means for the local church, and identify how to adapt in order to cultivate generosity and catalyze potential in the local context.

Cultivating generosity happens with an all-year-round mindset in the life of a faith community. Rather than a one month focus, think instead of generosity as a year-round, ongoing. repeating discipleship journey of telling, asking, planning, and giving.

Telling stories; asking for participation; learning, evaluating, and planning; and continually keeping the momentum going gets the whole faith community involved in cultivating generosity and catalyzing potential through missional giving. (SEE DIAGRAM BELOW) It sometimes comes as a surprise to long time Christians that those younger in the faith do not know how to give or even that giving is a vibrant aspect of faithful discipleship. One Cohort church decided to instruct through an invitation in the church newsletter and during an announcement on Sundays. This prompted conversations among congregants and a boost in giving during the month these informative invitations were given.

Together, we have much to learn as we deepen our discipleship by cultivating generosity in our congregations all around the Conference.

The Giving Cycle

Mission & Vision Statements

Case Statement

Celebrating the Story

Preaching & Teaching

Tell the Story

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Ask

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Generosity Cohort faculty member Rev. Bryan Murphy leads a session on differing giving habits across the many generations of a multi generational church Z O OM V I DE O C ON F E R E N C E

Keep Momentum Going

Education & Reflection Affirmation of Members' Giving

Celebration of the Church's Ministry & Mission

Learn & Plan

Annual Stewardship Program Time & Talent Program Special Giving Opportunities Planned Giving Program Capital Funding Program Year-End Giving

Evaluation & Analysis Endowment Planning Capital Needs Planning

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20 YEARS WITH THE

S E A FA R E R S

- A REFLECTION

Stephen Cushing DIRECTOR, NEW ENGLAND SEAFARERS MISSION

“ Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul…then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

– Ishmael (from Moby Dick by H. Melville)

I had just been called late October 1998 to serve as Chaplain for New England Seafarers Mission. I had been visiting ships for only a few weeks, so every visit was new and unpredictable. I just finished visiting a ship at the Citgo Terminal and left the crew with some Christmas Gift Bags. This ship left me feeling a little frustrated.

The crew were all from one nationality and they didn’t seem to know, or want, to converse in English and since I had no skill in their language, I felt utterly useless.

“Lord, if you want me to do this ministry, you’re going to have to perform a 2nd chapter of Acts kind of miracle.” I waited, half expecting to hear a rushing wind, but nothing. Several weeks later, I received a letter from the Captain of that same ship. He and his officers and crew were so appreciative that there were friendly souls when his ship made port that would remember them with simple acts of kindness.

It may seem overly simple, but for the past 20 years of visiting ships I have learned the language of love and compassion. Time again, I have visited ships and crew members, some fluent and some with broken English, who would share with me that they always “Thank God for the Seafarers Mission!”

Today I go onboard, or open our center, with less anxiety but great expectations.

How will God use this visit, this day? We have been blessed with staff and scores of volunteers who share this vision and hope, that each visit, and each act of kindness lessens the dreariness of seafarers’ souls and brings rays of hope through our words and actions.

Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?.. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call. - Acts 2:8, 39

Chaplain Cushing with Indonesian Seafarer at NESM Seafarers Center, May 2018

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Chaplain Cushing with volunteers from Cornerstone Covenant Church, June 2018

NETWORK OF ECC SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS Greetings from your East Coast Conference Network of Spiritual Directors! Fresh winds are blowing among the East Coast Conference Network of Spiritual Directors!

“Wait…we have a conference Network of Spiritual Directors?” Yes! Okay…but what does this Network do?”

Spiritual direction is a ministry of listening, discernment and prayer in a confidential setting of encouragement and compassion. The ministry of spiritual direction is the ministry of listening and being a soul friend.

The East Coast Conference Network of Spiritual Directors offer this ministry of caring presence to anyone in the conference recognizing the need for spiritual companionship-- particularly to the conference ministerium and their families. Please check out the conference website (and/or the ECC website) for more information on this vital ministry, as well as the following link explaining how to apply for SPE grant to cover the cost of Spiritual Direction (covchurch.org/vocationalministry/spe/spiritual-direction).

In early December, under the invitation and care of Rev. Barbara Ettinger and Rev. Sandi Lee, conference spiritual directors gathered to connect/reconnect and re-imagine resources and possibilities for our conference Network of Spiritual Directors.

If you would like more information on East Coast Conference spiritual directors, or if you would like to have a team of spiritual directors available at your conference event, please contact Network Coordinator Roxi Bergfalk (Litchfield, CT).

Building, connecting, caring, listening…indeed fresh winds are blowing, and we are eager to witness how all this might unfold and enrich personal lives and ministries of the East Coast Conference.

CHURCH PLANTING UPDATE Jason Condon DIRECTOR OF CHURCH PLANTING ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT

Queens Covenant Church Dan Sadlier (Sunnyside, Queens, NY) [Jan 2019]

PASTOR DAN SADLIER SIGNING COVENANT AGREEMENT FOR QUEENS COVENANT

Living out the way of Jesus among the nations of New York!" Queens Covenant launches in west Queens in the fall of 2019. Queens Covenant will be launched out of Hope Covenant Roosevelt Island as a second sister church that was planted four years ago.

Dan and the Queens Covenant core team are serving the Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City and Jackson Heights area with a heightened focus on the next generation, community development within the neighborhood, reaching the nations with the gospel in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the world, and planting new churches throughout the borough.

Covenant Church of the Heights Omar Lilly (Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY) [Jan 2019]

 PASTOR OMAR LILLY SIGNING COVENANT AGREEMENT FOR COVENANT CHURCH OF THE HEIGHTS

Our vision is to join God in the renewal of all things, seeing New Yorkers transformed into passionately engaged followers of Jesus. For us, this means seeking the good of our neighborhood by speaking and living the Gospel as an authentic community of faith.

We engage our neighborhood with a posture of active listening, celebrating its beauty and diversity, as we learn from the reflections of God's common grace within it. At the same time, we call out and challenge the injustices and idols of our community as we actively pursue its renewal through the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ and live out its calling to acts of justice and compassion

Reconcile Brooklyn Covenant Church Cory Morgan (Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY) [Jan 2019]

PASTOR CORY MORGAN SIGNING COVENANT AGREEMENT FOR RECONCILE BROOKLYN COVENANT CHURCH

Reconcile Brooklyn is a new community church-plant in central Brooklyn with a commitment to the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ. We embarked on a journey to reimagine our identity based on 2 Corinthians 5:17-19 as a community of believers reconciled

by Christ and our unique purpose to join God’s mission of reconciliation in Brooklyn.

We want to see our community fully living as God’s reconciled people. For that reason, we’ve committed to deeply know Jesus, to journey life together, and to serve the suffering and forgotten of our community.

The Tradition Continues! Executive Associate Superintendent Barbara Ettinger hosted the second annual breakfast during MidWinter for East Coast Conference pastors involved in Covenant Orientation classes. The diverse 2019 group traded ministry highlights and discussed what it means to foster and deepen Covenant identity for ourselves and the congregations we serve.

L-R: Andy Ober (Highrock SW Boston), Ryan Spooner (St Paul’s), James Dennis (Fellowship Covenant), Sandi Lee (East Coast Conference), Christ Bannon (The Commons), Kat Hampson (Highrock Quincy), Barbara Ettinger (East Coast Conference), Cathy Bruce (Hope Midtown, Hope NYC), John Udochi (New York Covenant)

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SAVE THE DATES

WOMEN'S MINISTRIES SPRING CELEBRATION

Saturday, April 6, 2019 9 am-3 pm |

$35

Monadnock Covenant Church, Keene, NH

CONFERENCE ANNUAL MEETING

Jenna Frost - “God of Women” Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her. Luke 1:45 Life is busy – plan an encouraging get away with some friends. Enjoy a morning coffee and light refreshments, breakout materials, and a lovely luncheon. An offering will be taken for the East Coast Conference Women’s Ministries.

April 26-27, 2019 Evangelical Covenant Church Springfield, MA

Breakout Topics: - Advocacy for Victims of Abuse - Parenting: Investing in Generation ?

- Prayer: Encountering CHRIST, Wanting MORE - Seafarers Mission: Meeting Needs on the High Seas

THEME:

"BY THE SPIRIT [LIVE]" THEME VERSE:

Galatians 5:25 REGISTER ONLINE: ecconfevents.com

This one-day conference is open to any woman who wants to attend. Questions? Email Nan Lingenfelter at nlingenfelter@charter.net Download a brochure from www.eccwm.org

CONFERENCE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING April 25-26, 2019 | Orchard Covenant Church - Indian Orchard, MA - REGISTER ONLINE: ecconfevents.com

2019 WINTER

PASTORAL TRANSITIONS

Alexander Walton to Clifton Park, NY (Staff), Nov 2018 Eva Cudmore from Granby, CT (Interim) to N. Easton, MA (Interim), Jan 2019 Omar Lilly to Washington Heights, NY (Church Planter), Jan 2019

EAST COAST COVENANTER Paul W. Kahn

Cory Morgan to Brooklyn, NY (Church Planter), Jan 2019

EDITOR / GRAPHIC DESIGN & LAYOUT

Dan Sadlier from Roosevelt Is., NY to Queens, NY (Church Planter), Jan 2019

Sandi Lee

EDITOR / WRITER

Howard Burgoyne PUBLISHER

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EAST COAST CONFERENCE

52 Missionary Road, Cromwell, CT 06416  (860) 635-2691 FAX: (860) 398-5071  www.eastcoastconf.org

SUPERINTENDENT:

Howard K. Burgoyne

EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT:

Barbara Ettinger

DIRECTOR OF CHURCH PLANTING:

Jason Condon

DIRECTOR OF MISSIONAL HEALTH:

Kreig Gammelgard

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER:

Sandi Lee

FINANCE MANAGER:

Deb Smith