Read ECC Resolution
The Covenant Church has been actively engaged with immigration for many years. As many of us know, we are an immigrant church. Founded by Swedish immigrants the immigrant story has historically been an integral part of our story.
At our 2014 Covenant Annual Meeting, which serves as the highest governing body of our shared life and ministry, a Resolution on Immigration was introduced and adopted.
We would encourage Covenanters to read and review this resolution, linked below.
2014 Immigration Resolution
Presented by the Central Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church,
adopted by the delegates to the 121st Covenant Annual Meeting.
Biblical Basis for Our Call
We experience the Triune God as a people along the Way—seeking to follow the will of God.
Abraham and Sarah, our forbearers in faith were wandering Arameans, who through faith, became a
“great nation” (Deuteronomy 26:5).
While we live in a different cultural context today, we still live by God’s kingdom ethic to “love
the sojourner as ourselves,” for God’s people were once sojourners in the land of Egypt (Leviticus
19:34; cf. Exodus 23:9)….
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