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For over
130 years our church has conducted a ministry in the Joliet area.
The congregation was first organized on August 10, 1873 as the
Swedish Mission Church. In 1881 a church building was erected on
Clay Street and for many years served as the center of the ministry.
On
December 10, 1939 the American Sunday School Union began a ministry
among the children in the Richland area which eventually became
known as the Six Corners Chapel. This ministry was turned over to
the Evangelical Covenant Church in 1957 and became a ministry of
outreach for the denomination and the church on Clay Street, now
named First Covenant Church of Joliet.
The
new ministry in the Richland area took the name of Calvary Covenant
Church and in 1962 erected the present church structure located at
2437 Plainfield Road, Crest Hill, Illinois.
On
May 17, 1970 Calvary Covenant Church and First Covenant Church
merged to become Church of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Covenant
Church.
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