Evergreen Covenant Church is a part of the Evangelical Covenant Church. The Evangelical Covenant Church is a denomination of more than eight hundred churches in the United States and Canada. It was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1885 as a voluntary covenant of churches committed to working together to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. Covenant churches emphasize the Bible’s witness to new life in Jesus Christ expressed in a day to day walk with the Lord.

Covenant Affirmations

We affirm the Centrality of the Word of God.

We affirm the Necessity of the New Birth.

We affirm a Commitment to the Whole Mission of the Church.

We affirm the Church as a fellowship of believers.

We affirm a Conscious Dependence on the Holy Spirit.

We affirm the Reality of Freedom in Christ.

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Core Values

God’s Love and God’s Word…

  • Compels us to worship God
  • Compels us to love the Church
  • Compels us to love our Neighbors
  • Compels us to love our Enemies

 

“Disciples of Jesus in faith, word and deed”

2 Corinthians 5:14: ” For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.”

Mission
To equip loving, giving, growing Christians to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ – evangelizing the lost, ministering to those in need, and seeking justice for the oppressed.
Vision
We are united by Christ in a holy covenant of believers empowered by the Holy Spirit to obey the great commandments and the great commission: to love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to go into all the world and make disciples.
Behavioral Covenant
  1. We will attempt to use an Annual Church Calendar to schedule all meetings and activities
  2. We will make agendas and proposals to be discussed or voted on available prior to congregational meetings
  3. We will stick to the approved agenda and topic at hand and pay polite attention with no side meetings.
  4. We will keep our statements brief and to the point
  5. We will present views which reflect biblically derived values
  6. We will assume good intentions on the part of the person speaking & speak in a respectful tone
  7. We will encourage questions and consider them to be valid
  8. We will respect and honor the office of pastor & lay leaders (boards & committees) and give them the benefit of the doubt, encouraging them to lead in the areas they’ve been elected.
  9. We will actively support the majority decision
  10. We will make sure that the coffee pot is full and hot!

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