Resurrection Covenant Church

04/13/2026

Be not afraid, sing out for joy!
Christ is risen, Hallelujah!

03/13/2026

We're excited to welcome JDrew, Matti, and Ezra Zander McGovern to the ResCov family as JDrew joins the team as our new Youth Director Resident!

12/29/2025

ResCov is hiring a Youth Director Resident! Find our job posting at: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4329640644

12/17/2025

Good news is louder than fear.

Join us at 4:30pm next week for our Christmas Eve service, as lessons and carols about the incarnate Christ speak this truth over us, emboldening us to hope in the midst of fear!

12/03/2025

Join us for Advent this season!

11/29/2023

If you’re looking for a beautiful SAB arrangement of “Build a Longer Table,” look no further! John Helgen’s setting was just published with Augsburg Fortress. Link for purchase in the bio.

07/07/2023

“God welcomes all,
strangers and friends,
God’s love is strong
and it never ends.”
-John Bell

On Sunday, we opened with this song in worship, a song we have sang many times over the years. This week, it took on a sad and terrible irony as once again the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church voted for division and exclusion by involuntarily removing Awaken (Covenant) Church from the denomination for their inclusive stance toward the LGBTQ+ community. Rather than taking up the gospel mandate to be one, rather than living into the generous spirit of our Covenant forebears who claimed to be companions of all who fear God, the delegates of the annual meeting again chose the path of scarcity and fear. The scope of our welcome continues to narrow as the list of the excluded and removed grows.

Most importantly, this continues to do damage to people in the LGBTQ+ community—our children, our siblings, our parents, our friends—making so many question God’s love for them as they are treated like pawns in a debate rather than beloved children of God made in God’s image. Whether these decisions are made on the annual meeting floor, or, as currently is being proposed for next year’s Annual Meeting, the denominational constitution is amended so these decisions around pastoral credentials can be made behind closed doors to avoid communal scrutiny and public witness, the harm will still be real and lasting.

At ResCov, we stand against these decisions by the ECC and believe they are antithetical to God’s call of welcome. Since we are called to the same positions on human sexuality as Awaken and Quest (who decided to disaffiliate before being involuntarily removed), we are proud to stand with them. We will continue to strive, however messily and imperfectly, to live into our welcome statement: “We are companions of all who desire to follow Christ and welcome you to participate fully in our life together regardless of age, ethnicity, national origin, physical or mental ability, economic status, education, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or station in life."

God welcomes all,
strangers and friends,
God’s love is strong
and it never ends.

04/05/2023

Join us as we journey with Jesus through Holy Week at ResCov with the following service:
-Good Friday - 7 p.m.
-Easter Vigil* - 7 p.m. (followed by dessert buffet)
-Easter Sunday - 10:30 a.m. (followed by champagne reception)

All are welcome as we remember Christ's life, death, and resurrection.

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*If you've never been to an Easter Vigil service, it is not to be missed!

11/29/2022

90’s CHRISTIAN POP TRIVIA!!

Sunday, Dec. 4 | 7:30pm | Burning Bush Brewery

Join us THIS Sunday and test out your long-dormant 90s Christian cultural knowledge (and you thought that all those DC Talk lyrics would go to waste!).

Please sign up your team ASAP using the link below so we can get a head count. Hope to see you there. You wouldn’t want to be…Left Behind!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/90s-christian-pop-culture-trivia-tickets-466586692357

11/18/2022

'90s Christian Pop Culture TRIVIA!

Test your knowledge of '90s Christian pop culture!

Sunday, Dec. 4 | 7:30pm | Burning Bush Brewery

How well do you remember the lyrics to DCTalk and the Newsboys? Who wrote about Kissing Dating Goodbye? Don't be Left Behind, join us at Burning Bush Brewery for a fun evening of drinks and trivia.

We are trying something new!
Grab some friends, register a team and join us!

We hope all who experienced all that was amazing (or not!) about (evangelical) Christian pop culture in the '90s will join a team, no matter your current relationship to church or faith. This is all about having fun together around our experiences of '90s (evangelical) Christian pop culture.

Register your team on Eventbrite!

Test your knowledge of 90s Christian pop culture!

11/02/2022

Recently, the Executive Committee of the Evangelical Covenant Church voted to advance to the 2023 Annual Meeting the “involuntary removal” of both Awaken Church and Quest Church over their positions and practices around LGBTQ+ inclusion. In light of this action and in solidarity with our LGBTQ+ siblings, we want to say that we stand with Quest and Awaken.

In the midst of so many crises in our nation and world—racism, Christian nationalism, gun violence, rising authoritarianism, antisemitism, global warming—we believe these myopic and punitive actions on sexuality both tarnishes the church’s witness to Christ in the world and does damage to people in the q***r community who already face multiple levels of fear and marginalization.

Decisions to expel communities for their inclusive stance demonstrates a narrow vision and diminishes our denomination’s historic and hard-won commitment to freedom in Christ; and as a community that holds to the same stances as Awaken and Quest (see our welcome policy below), we believe it is necessary to speak clearly about who we are: we believe another way is possible—one that does not resort to exclusion or excommunication, but seeks the difficult, messy, and beautiful work of living life together with our differences.

It was our sincere prayer and hope that our denominational leaders would have chosen that other way and sought to unite rather than divide.

At ResCov, in the midst of our many imperfections, we will continue to seek after that more unitive and generative space rooted in both God’s expansive welcome of grace which we experience weekly at the table, and in our denomination’s commitment to freedom in Christ.


ResCov’s Welcome Policy:
“We are companions of all who desire to follow Christ and welcome you to participate fully in our life together, without limitation, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, national origin, physical or mental ability, economic status, education, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or station in life. We offer full pastoral care to all, including (but not limited to) prayer, visitation during illness, spiritual counsel, weddings, funerals, and baptisms.”