Marty and Lynn

Why We Were Attracted to Attend Covenant Presbyterian Church

We discovered Covenant during a time in our lives when we found ourselves dissatisfied with our church experience.  While our last church had great preaching and an authentic worship team, it was huge and the lack of fellowship with other members left us feeling without purpose and with no sense of belonging.  We had been longing to find the type of church family we saw in Acts, the type of church leaders we saw in the apostles, and the type of church mission given by Christ Himself: follow me, make disciples.  

When we moved to the Fort Meade area, we dreaded the “church shopping” process we would have to go through. But God knew our hearts, He knew what we wanted, He knew what He wanted from us, and He knew where we should go.  Lynn put a request out to her friends on FaceBook:  “New to the Fort Meade area, looking for an awesome church.”  A series of connections from one friend to another resulted in a message being delivered that seemed to be written to our hearts.   Our desires for a church home that we had only shared with one another were the very things this woman wrote to us about.  The church was full of sinners, not people pretending to have it all put together.  The church had a place for us to serve, not an extensive payroll of hired out positions.  The church acted as one big family, not a large congregation of strangers.  The writer promised that the church was likely, “different from any church” we would ever experience.  

We attended Covenant the following Sunday and discovered that she was right.  We have been attending Covenant ever since.  We are part of a church family that longs to follow Jesus and realizes that means more than singing a few songs on Sunday morning.  We are blessed to have the opportunity to be His hands and feet; bringing His good news into the community, and lifting each other up for His glory.    We get to witness Jesus radically change hearts and lives, and draw us closer to Him each day.   At Covenant, all are welcome.  It doesn’t matter your gender, race, age, or position in life.  At Covenant, you will feel like a part of the family.  We eat together, we serve together, we fellowship together, we praise God together, and we learn how to walk with Christ together.  If you want a place to belong, come to Covenant.  If you want a place to serve, come to Covenant.  If you’re seeking and want to investigate Christ, come to Covenant.  If you want more of Christ, if you want to follow Him, do as He did, and love as He loved, then Covenant is the place for you. Marty and Lynn