Unite 2027

08/17/2026

📣Registration is open for Unite 2027!

📆Join us in Lincoln, Nebraska, July 18–23 for worship, prayer, service, and an unforgettable week with students from across the Covenant.

🌟Youth leaders: join our webinar Monday, August 17, to learn how to register your group.

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Unite is the triennial youth conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church — a formative gathering that invites students into deeper faith, shared life, and God's work in the world. Rooted in Scripture and shaped by the life of the church, Unite creates space for teaching, prayer, service, and joy...

07/29/2026

How can we honor our past while being honest about our wounds? That question sits at the center of our latest Companion review of 'We Mend with Gold' by Kristin T. Lee — a deeply personal account of her roots in an immigrant church, the crumbling of her spiritual foundation, and its eventual restoration. Lee compares her own journey to kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold rather than hiding the break.

It's the same image behind Take Heart, the theme of Unite 2027. Kintsugi embodies a theology of healing. When a pot is broken, cracks are mended with gold. The brokenness becomes beautiful.

"With a fine-tipped brush, Lee mends her fractures with gold and encourages readers to do the same. While our church backgrounds may have wounded us, there is room for a faith that embraces all of who we are — including our scars that remain, beautifully, part of our story."
— Melody Ip, in her Companion review

📖 Read the review: https://covchurch.org/2026/07/27/honoring-our-past-while-naming-our-wounds/
🎟️ Learn about Unite 2027: covchurch.org/unite

07/24/2026

Unite Conference memories, assemble. 📸 Post your favorite photo from a past Unite (or CHIC) and tag — we'll be featuring our favorites in Stories all week.

07/20/2026

At Gather, we sat down with several people to capture their CHIC and Unite legacy stories, and they are the kind of stories that remind us why we do this. Why we fundraise. Why we load up the vans. Why we make the trek. Because for more than 60 years, every time this community has come together, God has moved—and what happens doesn't stay there. It follows students home. It follows them into adulthood. It equips students to live on mission, for God’s glory and neighbor’s good.

https://covchurch.org/unite/

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07/11/2026

Unite is the triennial youth conference of The Evangelical Covenant Church — a formative gathering that invites students into deeper faith, shared life, and God's work in the world. Rooted in Scripture and shaped by the life of the church, Unite creates space for teaching, prayer, service, and joy. Students are called not only to belong — but to be sent.

Learn more at https://covchurch.org/unite/

06/08/2026

Broken isn't the end of the story. It's the beginning of something holy. Introducing the Unite 2027 theme: Take Heart.

Rooted in the ancient art of kintsugi—where cracks are mended with gold—this is a gathering for a generation that doesn't need to hide its fractures.

"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." — John 16:33

Belong. Be sent. Take heart.

July 18–23, 2027 | Lincoln, Nebraska
Learn more at covchurch.org/unite

04/20/2026

We're back. 🖤
Unite 2027 · July 18–23 · University of Nebraska
Five days. Thousands of students. One movement.
Early registration opens August 17.
covchurch.org/unite

03/19/2026

Unite is coming to Lincoln, Nebraska! In July 2027, Covenant youth will gather for worship, discipleship, and community in a catalytic, denomination-wide event.

03/13/2026

Something big is coming 🖤
July 18-23 · University of Nebraska
Five unforgettable days. Thousands of students. One movement.
Early registration opens August 17.
covchurch.org/unite