COVENANT CHURCH CONSIDERS NEW CANDIDATE

On Sunday, April 7, the public is invited to attend the events of the Mercer Island Covenant Church, 3200 78th Ave. SE.

KEVIN SWANSON will be sharing about himself in a casual setting at 9:30 a.m in Fellowship Hall.  He is the leading candidate for Associate Pastor of the church. Now living in New Jersey, he and his wife, Linda, have had a wide variety of ministry experiences.  He served as a pilot-mechanic with Mission Aviation Fellowship, serving missionaries, educators and medical personnel who worked in remote locations and eventually served in various leadership roles overseas and in the USA.

Later, he was Executive Director of a clergy retreat and counseling center in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  He has been on the staff of two Covenant Church plants, first in Sacramento, California and presently in Englewood, New Jersey, where he has been Executive Pastor.

Should the congregation of MICC decide to extend a call to  him, his areas of focus will be pastoral care, small groups, global engagement and administration.

Age related classes for children will also take place at the 9:30 hour.

A worship celebration for all will take place at 11:00 a.m. in the worship center during which Kevin Swanson will be preaching on Mark 3:1-6.  A free Nursery is available all morning for infants and toddlers.  Young children are released to a focus group during the worship service.

There will be a potluck lunch in Fellowship Hall for the congregation following worship, after which a Q&A session, followed by a vote by the congregation will determine whether Pastor Swanson will be invited to join the church staff.

Mercer island Covenant Church, founded in 1949, began in a family recreation room on North Mercer Way, moved for a period of time to the VFW Hall, and built is first unit where the Mercer Island Post Office is now located.  The present worship center across the street from Mercerdale Park was dedicated in the spring of 1974.

The Evangelical Covenant denomination has recently been found to be the fastest growing multi-ethnic denomination in the United States and Canada.

Lead Pastor Peter Sung and his wife, Susie, have four young daughters.  The three oldest are now attending West Mercer Elementary School.