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The Catholic Diocese of Charlotte entered the market three years ago with a 13-unit complex, Mother Teresa Villa in south Charlotte, built on land the diocese owns. Yet it’s all but unheard of for an individual congregation to invest in a project the way Covenant has. Both Porter and Dodson, who have worked in the field for decades, say they’ve never encountered a similar arrangement. “For a faith-based community to say, ‘You know what, I’m going to partner with an affordable housing developer, and we’re gonna do this’—I don’t know of any,” Porter says.
Our History
And, in spite of difficult times, Rev. Turner raised membership and improved the church’s financial status. It was during the latter years of Dr. Turner’s ministry that he led Covenant and the community to respond early to the rising civil rights movement. The tradition of community service was continued under the tenure of Rev. Roy Talmadge Brumbaugh when he came to the church in November of 1920. Brumbaugh, who had a reputation as a “great biblical scholar,” inspired young parishioners to perform community works.
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Community Service of Lament & Hope
It’s also because Covenant is pointing a way forward for faith communities in this city of churches. After her children went to college, Lisa answered God’s call to work alongside Covenant’s congregation to provide support to the many volunteers and committee members to “get the church work done” in the office. Osborne said that 103 of the 112 families with children at the school at the time of the March 27, 2023, attack have signed on to their position that the writings should be suppressed. Eric Osborne, the parents’ attorney, had yet another reason to keep the writings secret. All of the children of Covenant School are victims under the Tennessee Constitution and have a right to be free from abuse, harassment and intimidation. Releasing the writings publicly could harm the children and would violate the law, he argued.
Covenant Ministers & Guests
The recitals take place in various churches in Charlotte, and are open to the public. Campus Outreach exists to equip students to be lifelong leaders in the church, for the Kingdom of God, within their unique spheres of influence. Put simply, we are on mission with Christ to make disciples that make disciples. Covenant’s dedication to service has not been limited to sending members out into the community, but also includes a notable effort to welcome others in fellowship and healing. In 1983, Covenant Presbyterian Church also had the privilege of helping host the historic General Assembly that reunited the Presbyterian Church U.S. and the United Presbyterian Church U.S.A. after 122 years of separation.
Though Covenant Presbyterian Church has not always carried that name, it has always represented that tradition. What began as an outreach church of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Tennessee became what we now know as Covenant Presbyterian…with an unbroken history of Christian dedication and community service. We celebrate our history as a people of faith since the birth of Christ, and we recall the past in order to prepare ourselves for the future. Our response to this covenant is to govern ourselves by Christ’s love. We covenant to serve God by loving our neighbor, our community, and our family, will be recorded as it was for those who came before us. We pray that we, as a church community, stay mindful of our mission as we go out into the world serving Christ, and as we welcome others to join us in fellowship and service.
Churches
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PIPS served as a kindergarten for minority and immigrant children, with a special focus on teaching English to those children in transition. At one point, the manse was used to house a Cambodian family seeking political refuge under sponsorship of the church. We trudge up a mild slope, passing a stretch of vacant property on either side of a creek bed overgrown with creeper vines and kudzu that chokes the trees. Overhead soar power lines and the towers that support them, on Duke Energy property where the Housing Partnership won’t be able to build. We reach a white brick retaining wall, a Showmars, and behind them a vast parking lot that served a Kmart before the store closed in 2014. The four-story, 185-unit affordable housing complex will begin back here and run for most of the block down to the convenience store at the corner, filling the 12 acres reserved for it and boosting the west side’s roster of affordable units.
In 1874, when Rev. W. H. Crawford came to Atlanta from Tennessee to start the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, he held a series of meetings in the Good Templars Hall in downtown Atlanta. Within two years the church had grown to thirty members and had acquired a small parcel of real estate with the hopes of building the first church. By 1877 Rev. Crawford had to withdraw due to lack of support, and Rev. W. C. Cooke disbanded the congregation and sold the property for $1,022. Our mission at Covenant Presbyterian is to “equip the people of God to serve Christ in the world.” For the people of God, there is no higher honor and no greater service.
Multi-Ethnic Ministry
We believe that we are to carry the bread and the cup out of the church and into the streets, office towers, hospitals, boardrooms, classrooms, grocery stores, soccer fields and homes of our city and world. That’s forced the Housing Partnership, as it concentrated on developing low-income housing along the Freedom Drive corridor, to seek help elsewhere. Freedom runs through one of the poorest areas of Charlotte, but it’s gentrifying quickly because it’s so close to uptown. Porter worries that the market could force hundreds of low-income renters from their homes in the coming years without affordable housing. Through our weekend services, Sunday school classes, and serving teams, you’ll discover a deeper sense of life, faith, and community. Governments hesitate to raise taxes, even with growing populations and need for public services, and charitable organizations and businesses have to pick up much of the slack.
They can do far more when they join corporate and secular nonprofit partners to accomplish big things. By 1930, the congregation had grown to over 1000 members, and Rev. Herman L. Turner had taken over as pastor. He led the church during the Great Depression as the needs of his congregation changed overnight.
Ordered ministries are gifts to the church to order its life so that the ministry of the whole people of God may flourish. Lisa has served as Covenant’s administrative assistant in charge of communications and bookkeeping since April 2011. Before coming to Covenant Lisa homeschooled her two children, which was a profession in itself. John was born and raised in a Roman Catholic family in London, England. As a result, he attended the Jesuit college of Saint Ignatius in Stamford Hill where he witnessed the abuse of power that was the hallmark of the church at that time. Joining one of the predecessor banks of Bank of America in London and later transferring to Charlotte, NC, where he planned to make a career of banking.
None of the eight attorneys arguing before Davidson County Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea Myles during a two-day hearing claimed to be a copyright expert. Their answers to Myles’ pointed questions about the interplay of federal copyright protections and the Tennessee Public Records Act seemed at times only to muddy the waters further. But the parents of children at the Covenant School added an extra twist to an already complicated case by asserting that they have gained legal ownership of the writings from the shooter’s parents and now hold the copyright. Join over 47,000 local readers and get our FREE newsletter every day. Free parking is available on Sunday mornings and during all church events at the corner of Trade and Poplar Streets.
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