Message from Pastor Darren
April 2025
April is special for us here at Covenant as we connect with our church and throughout the community. We hope that you will come and be a part of our programs throughout the month! I want to highlight our Holy Week activities because I think that each of those can help to connect you closer to God.
We begin Holy Week with our Palm Sunday services on April 13th. Our services will highlight not only the celebrations that went on as Jesus entered Jerusalem but also the tragic realities that lied ahead. We will have our Maundy Thursday service at 6:30 on April 17th where we will have communion and strip the sanctuary in preparation for the crucifixion. But thankfully, our story doesn ’t end with a cross. It ends with an open grave! And we will celebrate that fully on April 20th with a Sunrise service complete with special music beginning at 7 AM followed by breakfast. We will also have our Easter Cantata highlighting our 9 AM Easter service and amazing music from our Praise Band at 11 AM! And in the middle at 10? Our Easter Egg Hunt for all of our children in our community.
It will be a wild, amazing, fun day for sure! And I emphasize that the last part of Holy Week as we continue through Lent: sometimes Lent seems like a lot. Let ’s be honest: sometimes life is a lot. However, if we continue, focused on God, someday Easter is going to happen. The trials and tribulations that you are going through will be redeemed by the blood on the cross and we are buried in a grave that was opened by our Lord and Savior!
I love Holy Week because it starts out with a bang, trudges along through the reality of our brokenness, but ends with Jesus breaking the world from the chains of sin forever. And that is something we all need in these times! Come join us throughout April! And connect with others, with Covenant, and most important our God! It will be an April like none other before!
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1. Noah Piraino
2. Tess Abbott, Nathan Wilcox, Aidan Holt, Gabe Holt
3. Zack Douglas
4. Karen Brewer, Chris Amador, Andrew Coggins, Stephen Durr
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6. Teagan Johnson
7. Bill Nagy
8. Deborah Key, Owen Norris
9. Tracy Ennis, Meaghan Eller, Stephen Kerr
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11. Roger Stewart
12. Kay McIntosh, Stephen Coggins
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14. Anne White, Matt Gowdy, Alice Gleeson
15. Kellie Sayers
16. Christopher Kerr
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19. Doug Mitchell
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21. Nancy Lewis, Makenzie Knight, Hazel Turman
22. Kathy Poston, Leslie Hawn, Michael Ivey, Isabella Snyder
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24. Judi Marshall, Cory Burns
25. Jane Stutler, Ed Barber
26. Robin Coggins, Jordan Moseley, Kristen Taylor, Mary Kate Johnson
27. Kathy Martin, Lynn Ritter, Owen Merriam
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29. Butch Johnson
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Prayers for Janice Meservey who is recovering from knee surgery.
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Prayers for Jill Harris-Soles as she recovers from emergency gallbladder surgery.
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Prayers for Linda Schneider as she recovers from a surgical procedure.
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Prayers for John Stenersen, husband of Diane Stenersen, who is home, recovering from surgery.
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Prayer go out to Rylan Tarrant for continued health improvement.
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Prayers for Mike Smith who is facing ongoing health concerns.
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Prayers for Audrey Talley who has health concerns.
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Prayers for Gale Slappy, a friend of Audrey Talley, who has unspoken prayers.
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Prayers for Kim Shoemaker as she recovers from surgery.
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Prayers for Candy Miller as she recovers from surgery.
Hear the Joyful Noise!
Our Easter Cantata will be at 9 AM on Easter Sunday and it is going to be INCREDIBLE! Please join us for this celebration of our risen Lord!
Look what God is
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A second monthly meal!
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HAPPENINGS!
Northwood Community Center
In the summer of 2021, Covenant was honored to take on an incredible opportunity from the Western North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. Northwood United Methodist Church (2409 Ambassador Ct. in High Point) had closed its' doors the previous summer, and the building had been sitting vacant with sacred anticipation of the next step for ministry within those walls. The leadership at Covenant Church discerned and voted to take on the Northwood UMC property and to open a community outreach center as a second campus and missional extension of our mission work at Covenant. Thus, Northwood Community Center was born. The leadership board of Northwood is made up of various Covenant Church committee leaders, community leaders, and various partner organizations in the 27265 area and beyond. In addition, our mission at Northwood is sponsored entirely by private donations, facility rental income, and The United Methodist Church Missional Engagement Grants. At Northwood, we currently offer a monthly community meal, food pantry, and clothing closet as well as special outreach events for the community. We are always accepting donations of clothing or non-expired food to serve our neighbors! Food can be delivered to the Covenant Gathering area and clothes can be donated in the blue box out- side of Northwood. For more info or to get involved, please reach out to Mission's Coordinator Gale Vitamvas at gale.vitamvas@gmail.com or our Northwood staff liaison, Laura Danford.
We are watching God's vision for Northwood unfold before our very eyes. Thank you.
Covenant Community Garden
Like to garden? Did you know Covenant Church has a community garden in the back of our property and we have some spaces available? You can help get the beds ready for or take a bed for the summer. Plant whatever you like. You keep a percentage and the rest goes to Ward Street and Northwood’s food pantries. If you are interested or want more information contact the church office.
Ward Street
Ward Street has regular needs: boxed milk, canned goods, plastic and paper bags, and other items. Remember that hunger is not seasonal. Please deposit donations in the large gray bin under the coat rack in the hallway near the gathering entrance, or in one of the marked bins at the drive-through portico on the left side of the church. For more info please contact Judi Marshall at jmmread@aol.com.
Thank you from Laura and Logan Danford!
Thank you all for your outpouring of love and gifts for Logan and I. We are so blessed to have this incredible church family that loves us and cares for us.
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