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GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

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THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

easter sunday

Luke 24:1-12

 

FEATURED UPDATES

 

HOLY WEEK 2022

Please find all information regarding our Holy Week Services here.

 

QUARTERLY CONGREGATIONAL MEETING

Our next congregational meeting will be April 24th at 6pm in the sanctuary.

 

FOOD DRIVE

We will be hosting a food drive for the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry starting April 24th. You can pick up bags on Sunday after church and bring them back Sunday May 1st.

 

SUPPORT “CANS FOR CHANGE” & COVENANT WORLD RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT

For more than 60 years, Covenant World Relief has led our denomination's response to human suffering and injustice around the world.  Currently, CWRD's partners are providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Poland, flood relief in Ethiopia, food security assistance in Central African Republic, and much more.

During the season of Lent, we have several opportunities to support CWRD's work with the poor and vulnerable:

  • Follow CWR's Facebook page or website to learn more about their work

  • Pray for CWR, their partners, and the people they serve

  • Pickup a "Can for Change" soup can from church to collect coins for CWRD, and bring it to our Easter Sunday service

  • Go to our church's giving page to contribute, and select the "Give to Covenant World Relief and Development" fund

  • Write a check any time with "CWRD" in the memo line

  • If you already give to our "Love Offering" each month, contributions in March and April will go to CWRD

Thank you for your support!

 

THE ARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY

 

“MY SECRET DOUBLE” ART EXHIBIT

From March 7 to May 6, Wheaton College is hosting a traveling international art exhibition “My Secret Double,” addressing addiction, depression, and mental health, while offering encouragement and hope. 

Our gallery is also open in the Sanctuary.

To learn more, please visit wheaton.edu/mysecretdouble


 

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SUNDAY SERMON

Palm Sunday

John 12:12-19

 

FEATURED UPDATES

 

JOIN OUR BURMESE SISTER CONGREGATION AS THEY CELEBRATE THEIR NEW CHURCH BUILDING THIS SUNDAY!

Back in 2014, GEECC invited a congregation of 100 Burmese believers - Bethel Senthang Baptist Church - to start worshipping at Glen Ellyn Covenant.  They have been meeting faithfully for worship in the gym every Sunday afternoon since, and their congregation has grown to nearly 300! 

Last month, they purchased a lovely old church building in Villa Park.  They will worship there for the first time this Sunday, April 10, and have invited our church to join them.    Worship starts at 1pm at:

410 S Cornell Ave

Villa Park, IL 60181

We are grateful for the time we shared with BSBC at GEECC, and pray for God’s blessing on them as they start this new phase of ministry.

If you have questions, or if you want to carpool to the church on Sunday, contact Darren Miller (630-596-6486).

 

HOLY WEEK 2022

Please find all information regarding our Holy Week Services here.

 

CHOIR FOR EASTER SUNDAY

You are invited to sing in the choir for Easter Sunday, April 17th. There will be one rehearsal after worship on Sunday, April 10th. We will rehearse the “Easter Song” with the children, and then rehearse one other piece.   Contact Leslie with questions. 

 

SOUP SUPPERS

The next soup supper is this Sunday. Please find all information here.

 

EASTER MEMORIAL FLOWERS

The sanctuary will be decorated on Easter Sunday, April 17, with flowers placed in memory or in honor of friends and loved ones. These donations will be used to purchase flowers for the Easter Sunday display and for other items that will enrich our worship experience.  

Contributors are invited to take a plant home after the service on Easter.  Plants not claimed will be used to decorate the sanctuary in the weeks following Easter.

For inclusion in Easter worship, please complete this form along with your memorial or honorary gift, by Palm Sunday, April 10*.  For further information, please contact Kriste Sveen at kristesveen7@gmail.com or 630-248-6577.

 

*A Note about Payment: Separate check not required.  Please include your honorary gift in your general and missions offering check to the church, indicating the amount to be given to the “Easter Fund” in the memo portion of your check and on the offering envelope. You may also give through our website by clicking “Easter Fund” in the Give drop down menu. Thank you! 

 

SUPPORT “CANS FOR CHANGE” & COVENANT WORLD RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT

For more than 60 years, Covenant World Relief has led our denomination's response to human suffering and injustice around the world.  Currently, CWRD's partners are providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Poland, flood relief in Ethiopia, food security assistance in Central African Republic, and much more.

During the season of Lent, we have several opportunities to support CWRD's work with the poor and vulnerable:

  • Follow CWR's Facebook page or website to learn more about their work

  • Pray for CWR, their partners, and the people they serve

  • Pickup a "Can for Change" soup can from church to collect coins for CWRD, and bring it to our Easter Sunday service

  • Go to our church's giving page to contribute, and select the "Give to Covenant World Relief and Development" fund

  • Write a check any time with "CWRD" in the memo line

  • If you already give to our "Love Offering" each month, contributions in March and April will go to CWRD

Thank you for your support!

 

SVEEN BABY SHOWER

All women are invited to a Baby Shower in honor of Amy and Daniel Sveen and the soon arrival of their first child. The shower will be on Friday, April 8th at 6:30 pm here in the Family Life Center. We hope you can join in celebrating this growing family. If you have any questions or would like to contribute to a group gift please contact Lindsay McAndrews at lindsayjackson04@gmail.com or 630-363-3369. They are registered at Target and on Babylist.com

If you would like to contribute food to the shower you can sign up here.

 

THE ARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY

“MY SECRET DOUBLE” ART EXHIBIT

From March 7 to May 6, Wheaton College is hosting a traveling international art exhibition “My Secret Double,” addressing addiction, depression, and mental health, while offering encouragement and hope. 

Our gallery is also open in the Sanctuary.

To learn more, please visit wheaton.edu/mysecretdouble


 

GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

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THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

GLORY - Walking the path with Jesus

John 15:18-16:4

 

The visual art in the front of the sanctuary, represents our Lenten journey to the cross, in purple, with bits of the gold fabric, representing bits of God's Glory peaking through along the journey.

Tribe of Dan- enhancing worship through the visual arts

FEATURED UPDATES

 

CHOIR FOR EASTER SUNDAY

You are invited to sing in the choir for Easter Sunday, April 17th. There will be one rehearsal after worship on Sunday, April 10th. We will rehearse the “Easter Song” with the children, and then rehearse one other piece.   Contact Leslie with questions. 

 

SUPPORT “CANS FOR CHANGE” & COVENANT WORLD RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT

For more than 60 years, Covenant World Relief has led our denomination's response to human suffering and injustice around the world.  Currently, CWRD's partners are providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Poland, flood relief in Ethiopia, food security assistance in Central African Republic, and much more.

During the season of Lent, we have several opportunities to support CWRD's work with the poor and vulnerable:

  • Follow CWR's Facebook page or website to learn more about their work

  • Pray for CWR, their partners, and the people they serve

  • Pickup a "Can for Change" soup can from church to collect coins for CWRD, and bring it to our Easter Sunday service

  • Go to our church's giving page to contribute, and select the "Give to Covenant World Relief and Development" fund

  • Write a check any time with "CWRD" in the memo line

  • If you already give to our "Love Offering" each month, contributions in March and April will go to CWRD

Thank you for your support!

 

SOUP SUPPERS

The next soup supper is next Sunday. Please find all information here.

 

EASTER MEMORIAL FLOWERS

The sanctuary will be decorated on Easter Sunday, April 17, with flowers placed in memory or in honor of friends and loved ones. These donations will be used to purchase flowers for the Easter Sunday display and for other items that will enrich our worship experience.  

Contributors are invited to take a plant home after the service on Easter.  Plants not claimed will be used to decorate the sanctuary in the weeks following Easter.

For inclusion in Easter worship, please complete this form along with your memorial or honorary gift, by Palm Sunday, April 10*.  For further information, please contact Kriste Sveen at kristesveen7@gmail.com or 630-248-6577.

 

*A Note about Payment: Separate check not required.  Please include your honorary gift in your general and missions offering check to the church, indicating the amount to be given to the “Easter Fund” in the memo portion of your check and on the offering envelope. You may also give through our website by clicking “Easter Fund” in the Give drop down menu. Thank you! 

 

SVEEN BABY SHOWER

All women are invited to a Baby Shower in honor of Amy and Daniel Sveen and the soon arrival of their first child. The shower will be on Friday, April 8th at 6:30 pm here in the Family Life Center. We hope you can join in celebrating this growing family. If you have any questions or would like to contribute to a group gift please contact Lindsay McAndrews at lindsayjackson04@gmail.com or 630-363-3369. They are registered at Target and on Babylist.com

If you would like to contribute food to the shower you can sign up here.

 

HOLY WEEK 2022

Please find all information regarding our Holy Week Services here.

 

THE MAKERS SPACE

“Whether you realize it or not, you spend the majority of your day doing things you’ve already done hundreds or thousands of times before. Very rarely do you actually try new things for the purpose of engaging a unique experience. But what if you made it a point to do exactly that? There are many benefits to doing new things – don’t cheat yourself out of them.

Ask any highly creative person how they continue to innovate and express themselves in new ways – they’ll tell you the key to their success is a commitment to trying new things.

When you try new things, you put your brain into unique situations that force it to really think. This stimulates creativity, which eventually rubs off in other areas of your life. As a result, you begin to think about everything in a new light.”—Larry Alton, Huffpost

Fear is what keeps us from trying new things, and that is the 4th question in our series, as we look at Questions? that God poses to us to begin an intimate dialogue with us. Perhaps you find yourself in a languishing or “idling” state of mind. All 5 questions can help us move into the “what’s next” phase of our lives. For more on the Questions? series visit us @www.themakersspace.us

Here is an opportunity to try something new, all you have to do is come!

March 27, 2022. 5:30-7:30pm All supplies included.

RSVP to 2013themakersspace@gmail.com

 

THE ARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY

“MY SECRET DOUBLE” ART EXHIBIT

From March 7 to May 6, Wheaton College is hosting a traveling international art exhibition “My Secret Double,” addressing addiction, depression, and mental health, while offering encouragement and hope. 

To learn more, please visit wheaton.edu/mysecretdouble

 

GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

QUICK LINKS

THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

GLORY - Walking the path with Jesus

John 14:1-14

 

The visual art in the front of the sanctuary, represents our Lenten journey to the cross, in purple, with bits of the gold fabric, representing bits of God's Glory peaking through along the journey.

Tribe of Dan- enhancing worship through the visual arts

FEATURED UPDATES

 

SUPPORT “CANS FOR CHANGE” & COVENANT WORLD RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT

For more than 60 years, Covenant World Relief has led our denomination's response to human suffering and injustice around the world.  Currently, CWRD's partners are providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Poland, flood relief in Ethiopia, food security assistance in Central African Republic, and much more.

During the season of Lent, we have several opportunities to support CWRD's work with the poor and vulnerable:

  • Follow CWR's Facebook page or website to learn more about their work

  • Pray for CWR, their partners, and the people they serve

  • Pickup a "Can for Change" soup can from church to collect coins for CWRD, and bring it to our Easter Sunday service

  • Go to our church's giving page to contribute, and select the "Give to Covenant World Relief and Development" fund

  • Write a check any time with "CWRD" in the memo line

  • If you already give to our "Love Offering" each month, contributions in March and April will go to CWRD

Thank you for your support!

 

SOUP SUPPERS

The next soup supper is this Sunday. Please find all information here.

 

EASTER MEMORIAL FLOWERS

The sanctuary will be decorated on Easter Sunday, April 17, with flowers placed in memory or in honor of friends and loved ones. These donations will be used to purchase flowers for the Easter Sunday display and for other items that will enrich our worship experience.  

Contributors are invited to take a plant home after the service on Easter.  Plants not claimed will be used to decorate the sanctuary in the weeks following Easter.

For inclusion in Easter worship, please complete this form along with your memorial or honorary gift, by Palm Sunday, April 10*.  For further information, please contact Kriste Sveen at kristesveen7@gmail.com or 630-248-6577.

 

*A Note about Payment: Separate check not required.  Please include your honorary gift in your general and missions offering check to the church, indicating the amount to be given to the “Easter Fund” in the memo portion of your check and on the offering envelope. You may also give through our website by clicking “Easter Fund” in the Give drop down menu. Thank you! 

 

SVEEN BABY SHOWER

All women are invited to a Baby Shower in honor of Amy and Daniel Sveen and the soon arrival of their first child. The shower will be on Friday, April 8th at 6:30 pm here in the Family Life Center. We hope you can join in celebrating this growing family. If you have any questions or would like to contribute to a group gift please contact Lindsay McAndrews at lindsayjackson04@gmail.com or 630-363-3369. They are registered at Target and on Babylist.com

If you would like to contribute food to the shower you can sign up here.

 

HOLY WEEK 2022

Please find all information regarding our Holy Week Services here.

 

THE MAKERS SPACE

“Whether you realize it or not, you spend the majority of your day doing things you’ve already done hundreds or thousands of times before. Very rarely do you actually try new things for the purpose of engaging a unique experience. But what if you made it a point to do exactly that? There are many benefits to doing new things – don’t cheat yourself out of them.

Ask any highly creative person how they continue to innovate and express themselves in new ways – they’ll tell you the key to their success is a commitment to trying new things.

When you try new things, you put your brain into unique situations that force it to really think. This stimulates creativity, which eventually rubs off in other areas of your life. As a result, you begin to think about everything in a new light.”—Larry Alton, Huffpost

Fear is what keeps us from trying new things, and that is the 4th question in our series, as we look at Questions? that God poses to us to begin an intimate dialogue with us. Perhaps you find yourself in a languishing or “idling” state of mind. All 5 questions can help us move into the “what’s next” phase of our lives. For more on the Questions? series visit us @www.themakersspace.us

Here is an opportunity to try something new, all you have to do is come!

March 27, 2022. 5:30-7:30pm All supplies included.

RSVP to 2013themakersspace@gmail.com

 

THE ARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY

 

GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

QUICK LINKS

THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

GLORY - Walking the path with jesus

John 13:31-38

 

The visual art in the front of the sanctuary, represents our Lenten journey to the cross, in purple, with bits of the gold fabric, representing bits of God's Glory peaking through along the journey.

Tribe of Dan- enhancing worship through the visual arts

FEATURED UPDATES

 

SUPPORT “CANS FOR CHANGE” & COVENANT WORLD RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT

For more than 60 years, Covenant World Relief has led our denomination's response to human suffering and injustice around the world.  Currently, CWRD's partners are providing assistance to Ukrainian refugees in Poland, flood relief in Ethiopia, food security assistance in Central African Republic, and much more.

During the season of Lent, we have several opportunities to support CWRD's work with the poor and vulnerable:

  • Follow CWR's Facebook page or website to learn more about their work

  • Pray for CWR, their partners, and the people they serve

  • Pickup a "Can for Change" soup can from church to collect coins for CWRD, and bring it to our Easter Sunday service

  • Go to our church's giving page to contribute, and select the "Give to Covenant World Relief and Development" fund

  • Write a check any time with "CWRD" in the memo line

  • If you already give to our "Love Offering" each month, contributions in March and April will go to CWRD

Thank you for your support!

 

SOUP SUPPERS

The next soup supper is this Sunday. Please find all information here.

 

EASTER MEMORIAL FLOWERS

The sanctuary will be decorated on Easter Sunday, April 17, with flowers placed in memory or in honor of friends and loved ones. These donations will be used to purchase flowers for the Easter Sunday display and for other items that will enrich our worship experience.  

Contributors are invited to take a plant home after the service on Easter.  Plants not claimed will be used to decorate the sanctuary in the weeks following Easter.

For inclusion in Easter worship, please complete this form along with your memorial or honorary gift, by Palm Sunday, April 10*.  For further information, please contact Kriste Sveen at kristesveen7@gmail.com or 630-248-6577.

 

*A Note about Payment: Separate check not required.  Please include your honorary gift in your general and missions offering check to the church, indicating the amount to be given to the “Easter Fund” in the memo portion of your check and on the offering envelope. You may also give through our website by clicking “Easter Fund” in the Give drop down menu. Thank you! 

 

SVEEN BABY SHOWER

All women are invited to a Baby Shower in honor of Amy and Daniel Sveen and the soon arrival of their first child. The shower will be on Friday, April 8th at 6:30 pm here in the Family Life Center. We hope you can join in celebrating this growing family. If you have any questions or would like to contribute to a group gift please contact Lindsay McAndrews at lindsayjackson04@gmail.com or 630-363-3369. They are registered at Target and on Babylist.com

If you would like to contribute food to the shower you can sign up here.

 

HOLY WEEK 2022

Please find all information regarding our Holy Week Services here.

 

THE MAKERS SPACE

“Whether you realize it or not, you spend the majority of your day doing things you’ve already done hundreds or thousands of times before. Very rarely do you actually try new things for the purpose of engaging a unique experience. But what if you made it a point to do exactly that? There are many benefits to doing new things – don’t cheat yourself out of them.

Ask any highly creative person how they continue to innovate and express themselves in new ways – they’ll tell you the key to their success is a commitment to trying new things.

When you try new things, you put your brain into unique situations that force it to really think. This stimulates creativity, which eventually rubs off in other areas of your life. As a result, you begin to think about everything in a new light.”—Larry Alton, Huffpost

Fear is what keeps us from trying new things, and that is the 4th question in our series, as we look at Questions? that God poses to us to begin an intimate dialogue with us. Perhaps you find yourself in a languishing or “idling” state of mind. All 5 questions can help us move into the “what’s next” phase of our lives. For more on the Questions? series visit us @www.themakersspace.us

Here is an opportunity to try something new, all you have to do is come!

March 27, 2022. 5:30-7:30pm All supplies included.

RSVP to 2013themakersspace@gmail.com

 
 

GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

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THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

GLORY - Walking the path with jesus

John 12:37-50

 

The visual art in the front of the sanctuary, represents our Lenten journey to the cross, in purple, with bits of the gold fabric, representing bits of God's Glory peaking through along the journey.

Tribe of Dan- enhancing worship through the visual arts

FEATURED UPDATES

 

SOUP SUPPERS

Soup suppers will start March 13th. Please find all information here.

 

EASTER MEMORIAL FLOWERS

The sanctuary will be decorated on Easter Sunday, April 17, with flowers placed in memory or in honor of friends and loved ones. These donations will be used to purchase flowers for the Easter Sunday display and for other items that will enrich our worship experience.  

Contributors are invited to take a plant home after the service on Easter.  Plants not claimed will be used to decorate the sanctuary in the weeks following Easter.

For inclusion in Easter worship, please complete this form along with your memorial or honorary gift, by Palm Sunday, April 10*.  For further information, please contact Kriste Sveen at kristesveen7@gmail.com or 630-248-6577.

 

*A Note about Payment: Separate check not required.  Please include your honorary gift in your general and missions offering check to the church, indicating the amount to be given to the “Easter Fund” in the memo portion of your check and on the offering envelope. You may also give through our website by clicking “Easter Fund” in the Give drop down menu. Thank you! 

 

THE MAKERS SPACE

“Whether you realize it or not, you spend the majority of your day doing things you’ve already done hundreds or thousands of times before. Very rarely do you actually try new things for the purpose of engaging a unique experience. But what if you made it a point to do exactly that? There are many benefits to doing new things – don’t cheat yourself out of them.

Ask any highly creative person how they continue to innovate and express themselves in new ways – they’ll tell you the key to their success is a commitment to trying new things.

When you try new things, you put your brain into unique situations that force it to really think. This stimulates creativity, which eventually rubs off in other areas of your life. As a result, you begin to think about everything in a new light.”—Larry Alton, Huffpost

Fear is what keeps us from trying new things, and that is the 4th question in our series, as we look at Questions? that God poses to us to begin an intimate dialogue with us. Perhaps you find yourself in a languishing or “idling” state of mind. All 5 questions can help us move into the “what’s next” phase of our lives. For more on the Questions? series visit us @www.themakersspace.us

Here is an opportunity to try something new, all you have to do is come!

March 27, 2022. 5:30-7:30pm All supplies included.

RSVP to 2013themakersspace@gmail.com

 

HOLY WEEK 2022

Please find all information regarding our Holy Week Services here.

 

GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

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THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

GLORY - Walking the path with jesus

John 12:1-11

FEATURED UPDATES

 
 

SOUP SUPPERS

Soup suppers will start March 13th. Please find all information here.

 

6 WEEK SMALL GROUP SEASON

Small groups will meet on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, March 9th-April 13th.

Sign up here!

 

HOLY WEEK 2022

Please find all information regarding our Holy Week Services here.

 

GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

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THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

SIGNS - JESUS RAISES LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD

John 11:1-45

FEATURED UPDATES

 
 
 

6 WEEK SMALL GROUP SEASON

Small groups will meet on Wednesdays at 6:30pm, March 9th-April 13th.

Sign up here!

 

STUDENT MINISTRIES UPDATE

With joy and sadness we want to inform you that our Director of Student Ministry, Emily Maruyama has accepted a full time High School Director position at another church. Emily is graduating from college this semester and we celebrate with her as she follows God’s call on her life. We are so thankful for her time at GEECC and her wonderful work with our students. Obviously, we are also sad that she will no longer be with us, but the sadness exists because she has done such a wonderful job as our Director. Please join us in prayer for Emily as she transitions, for our students as they walk through this transition, and for our church as we prayerfully seek our next Director of Student Ministry. Emily’s last day with us will be Thursday, April 21st. We praise God for His leading in Emily’s life and for her desire to pursue a life of ministering to young people. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.

Peace,

Pastor Jeff

 

Did you know:

"In our society, at the age of five, 90% of the population measures "high creativity." By the age of seven, the figure has dropped to 10%. And the percentage of adults with high creativity is only 2%! Our creativity is destroyed not through the use of outside force, but through criticism, innuendo..."

--Finley Eversole, in The Politics of Creativity

At The Maker’s Space, we use art as a tool to slow down and retrieve that lost creativity in order to live a more creative life, as we were created to do. This year, the new series of “Questions?” can help move you from languishing on to the “What’s Next?” Come try a new skill by engaging in art and be mindful of what is currently happening in and around you. This month, come play with CLAY! IN PERSON!

It’s free! So take some time for yourself. All supplies included but you do need to RSVP TO 2013themakersspace@gmail.com so we can prepare the clay. Come slow down and relax and try something new for your health!

FEBRUARY 27, 2022 5:30-7pm

GLEN ELLYN COVENANT CHURCH 277 HAWTHORNE AVE.

 

 

MY SECRET DOUBLE ART EXHIBIT comes to Wheaton College

March 14-April 29, 2022  Marj Meade Gallery Wheaton College

"My Secret Double is an international exhibition that strives to address issues of mental health. Your secret double is the inner voice that fills you with negative thoughts, and can lead to depression, anxiety, fear and addiction. We are looking for artwork that expresses the artist’s personal journey with that secret voice, also ways in which hope may be found in the midst of that journey."

The exhibition originated in Latvia.  Depression is the #1 problem in the country of Latvia, so a group of Christian artists decided to speak to that topic and catch the attention of the public.  Now, it is traveling around the United States and other places it might be invited.  You can read more on the sponsoring ministry @www.bridgebuildersint.com

Glen Ellyn Covenant Church has our own Call to Artists and will hold a satellite exhibition on "My Secret Double"  in the South Alcove Gallery.  

Submission deadline is March 27, 2022  

For more information contact Kriste Sveen

GE COV Weekly Newsletter

Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am.

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THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

SUNDAY SERMON

SIGNS - Jesus HEALS A BLIND MAN

John 9:1-12

FEATURED UPDATES

 

STUDENT MINISTRIES UPDATE

With joy and sadness we want to inform you that our Director of Student Ministry, Emily Maruyama has accepted a full time High School Director position at another church. Emily is graduating from college this semester and we celebrate with her as she follows God’s call on her life. We are so thankful for her time at GEECC and her wonderful work with our students. Obviously, we are also sad that she will no longer be with us, but the sadness exists because she has done such a wonderful job as our Director. Please join us in prayer for Emily as she transitions, for our students as they walk through this transition, and for our church as we prayerfully seek our next Director of Student Ministry. Emily’s last day with us will be Thursday, April 21st. We praise God for His leading in Emily’s life and for her desire to pursue a life of ministering to young people. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.

Peace,

Pastor Jeff

 

THANK YOU FROM EUGENIO & PIA RESTREPO

Dear friends at Glen Ellyn,

We just want to express our gratitude for your generosity of heart! We received your Christmas gift and are very thankful!

Blessings, Eugenio & Pia

 

Did you know:

"In our society, at the age of five, 90% of the population measures "high creativity." By the age of seven, the figure has dropped to 10%. And the percentage of adults with high creativity is only 2%! Our creativity is destroyed not through the use of outside force, but through criticism, innuendo..."

--Finley Eversole, in The Politics of Creativity

At The Maker’s Space, we use art as a tool to slow down and retrieve that lost creativity in order to live a more creative life, as we were created to do. This year, the new series of “Questions?” can help move you from languishing on to the “What’s Next?” Come try a new skill by engaging in art and be mindful of what is currently happening in and around you. This month, come play with CLAY! IN PERSON!

It’s free! So take some time for yourself. All supplies included but you do need to RSVP TO 2013themakersspace@gmail.com so we can prepare the clay. Come slow down and relax and try something new for your health!

FEBRUARY 27, 2022 5:30-7pm

GLEN ELLYN COVENANT CHURCH 277 HAWTHORNE AVE.

 

 

MY SECRET DOUBLE ART EXHIBIT comes to Wheaton College

March 14-April 29, 2022  Marj Meade Gallery Wheaton College

"My Secret Double is an international exhibition that strives to address issues of mental health. Your secret double is the inner voice that fills you with negative thoughts, and can lead to depression, anxiety, fear and addiction. We are looking for artwork that expresses the artist’s personal journey with that secret voice, also ways in which hope may be found in the midst of that journey."

The exhibition originated in Latvia.  Depression is the #1 problem in the country of Latvia, so a group of Christian artists decided to speak to that topic and catch the attention of the public.  Now, it is traveling around the United States and other places it might be invited.  You can read more on the sponsoring ministry @www.bridgebuildersint.com

Glen Ellyn Covenant Church has our own Call to Artists and will hold a satellite exhibition on "My Secret Double"  in the South Alcove Gallery.  

Submission deadline is March 27, 2022  

For more information contact Kriste Sveen

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In a recent Wall Street Journal article on HERE’S HOW TO TACKLE PANDEMIC FATIGUE, suggestions included; practicing mindfulness, seeking quality social connections, spending less time on screens and social media, and finding new interests. All of these actions can relieve stress which increases inflammation in the body which can make us more prone to getting sick. Finding new interests and creative outlets can help fight those feelings of stagnation or "languishing," which is a state between despair and flourishing.

At The Maker’s Space, the new series of “Questions?” can help move you from languishing on to the “What’s Next?” Come try a new skill by engaging in art and using it as a tool to slow down and be mindful of what is currently happening in and around you.

This month, come play with CLAY! IN PERSON! It’s free! So take some time for yourself. All supplies included but you do need to RSVP TO 2013themakersspace@gmail.com so we can prepare the clay. Come slow down and relax and try something new for your health!

FEBRUARY 27, 2022 5:30-7pm

GLEN ELLYN COVENANT CHURCH 277 HAWTHORNE AVE.

 

Mission Through the Mosaic

Last week was the Evangelical Covenant Church’s Midwinter conference for pastors, church staff and leaders. It was a week packed with impactful and meaningful worship services and workshops! If you’re interested, you can find over a dozen of the sessions at the Midwinter YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwMP3X7S7cpKTvPbPdevg9BQ6N25q9-BK.