Covenant of Grace

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About Covenant of Grace
Church Leadership
Pastor 1 Timothy 3:1-7
Jim Megchelsen

Ruling Elders 1 Timothy 5:17
Chuck Clack
Bryan Holstrom
Dick Sackett
David Warner

Deacons 1 Timothy 3:8-10
Craig Dinsmore
Jerry Hofmeyer
Greg Tews

Church History
The history of Covenant of Grace began in 1993 when members of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Wheaton, Illinois living in the Fox Valley began meeting as a Sunday Evening Bible study with the goal of establishing a Presbyterian congregation in the Reformed tradition.

In the fall of 1996, the group adopted the name Covenant of Grace and began meeting for Sunday morning worship in North Aurora. At that time the new congregation became a daughter church under the oversight of Bethel.

The new church then began the search for a full-time pastor, which resulted in a call being extended to the Rev. Jim Megchelsen. In the fall of 1997, Pastor Megchelsen and his family moved to the Fox Valley from San Diego, California.

God has since richly blessed Covenant of Grace and enabled our minstry to grow and expand. By the fall of 2001, Covenant of Grace had matured to the point of being able to exist autonomously and without further oversight from Bethel. Men from within our own congregation were elected to serve as elders and deacons and Covenant of Grace was organized as a particular church in the Orthodox Presbyterian denomination. God has continued to add to our numbers and in the fall of 2004 Covenant of Grace moved to the Batavia Park Dictrict building in Batavia in order to have a larger facitilty for worship.

We are very thankful for all that God has done in establishing Covenant of Grace as a congregation and look forward to what He has planned for our future.

Our Beliefs
Covenant of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church is a Christian church that stands in the historic Reformed and Presbyterian tradition. The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) is a Bible-believing, Bible-teaching Presbyterian denomination that began in the 1930s. Although we use the word Orthodox in our name, we are not to be confused with churches in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Orthodox simply means "straight teaching", from the Latin ortho, meaning "straight" and dox, meaning "teaching".

We believe that the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is the infallible and inerrant word of God.

We believe in and worship the one living and triune God: Father, Son and Holy Sprit, one God forever and ever, the maker of heaven and earth.

We believe that God created mankind, male and female, morally upright and in His image. As a result of sin and rebellion against God, however, mankind has fallen from this upright condition and the image of God has been severely marred in him. We believe that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

We believe that Jesus is the eternal Son of God who, in the fullness of time, took to Himself a human nature and was born of a virgin. He lived a sinless life and offered Himself at the cross to make full atonement for sinners. We believe that on the third day He was raised from the dead and now sits at the right hand of God the Father, interceding for His people, until He comes again to judge the living and the dead.

We believe that salvation is a gracious gift of God from beginning to end and is obtained by God's grace through the repenting of ones sin and placing one's trust and faith completely in the Lord Jesus Christ alone.

We affirm the historic Christian faith as expressed in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.

The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms provide a more complete expression of what we believe the Bible teaches. If you would like a copy of these documents, please contact the church at 630-906-9661.
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