FW: CovChurch NOW March 2019: A monthly update from The Evangelical Covenant Church

Fostering the Flourishing of Women

We are committed to advancing our mission by fostering the flourishing of women. During the month of March, we recognize and celebrate Women's History Month.

5 Mission Priorities Update

Make and Deepen Disciples

The Make and Deepen Disciples team is seeking a director of discipleship! Our team’s vision is to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus by mobilizing a multiethnic movement of disciples who make disciples. The director of discipleship will partner with us to develop a coaching system for churches to design their own intentional discipleship pathways, provide leadership for a number of church-wide discipleship initiatives, and convene teams to create new discipleship curriculum and learning experiences for the ECC. Sound like you? Apply here. Sound like someone you know? Nominate here.

Serve Globally

Serve Globally is offering a free downloadable Lenten Prayer Guide with six weeks of reflective prayers written by Serve Globally partners and personnel from around the world to encourage and challenge the church to live missionally.

Develop Leaders

Renew your friendship with God. Explore your call in a deeper way. Reignite your pastoral imagination. Pastors, missionaries, and chaplains are invited to participate in the Deeper in Christ Retreat, June 2-7, at King’s Fold in Alberta, Canada. The retreat is funded by Sustaining Pastoral Excellence.

Love Mercy Do Justice

March is Women’s History Month, which is an opportunity to think deeply about the experiences of women in society at large and within the church. We invite you to engage and share this reading list highlighting female authors who help us consider how we faithfully foster the flourishing of women.

The spring Sankofa group journeys March 28-31. Please join us in praying over this journey and for each participant as they prepare their hearts and minds for this experience.

Start and Strengthen churches

Did you know that there are hundreds of pages of documents and hours of videos created by Start and Strengthen Churches to help Covenant churches thrive? They are all available for free download. Look for the directory of resources online.