Distinctive Values
This Distinctive Value helps explain why some HCC households have two or three crock pots stowed in their kitchen cabinets
What is "Hospitality"?
This prayer is recited by the congregation each week at the conclusion of the congregational prayer.
What is the Lord's Prayer?
This is the number of elders of HCC.
What is five?
Notorious for running away from Sunday school as a younger man, this HCC member had a perfect Sunday worship attendance record in 2024.
Who is Josh Olson?
This self-described "weird uncle who comes around at Christmastime", has preached thirteen sermons at HCC and introduced us to John.
Who is Doug O'Donnell?
This value recognizes that small churches are uniquely well-positioned to carry out certain ministry needs.
What is "Strategic Smallness"?
What is four?
This family has perfected the recipe for HCC's communion bread.
Who are the Ritters?
On this liturgical feast day in 2025, HCC first discovered Bethany Chapel's new A/C jet engines.
What is Pentecost?
"When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting."
This epistle was read at the Epic Read in 2025.
What is Philippians?
HCC's distinctive value of Catholicity shows up most visibly in this weekly habit.
What is praying for other churches? (reciting ancient creeds also accepted)
Traditionally known as the "Memorial Acclamation", this phrase is recited by the elders each week in the communion prayer.
What is "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again!"?
On May 22, 2022, HCC had this number of deacons.
What is five (Kris, Amy, Michelle, Eric, Myriam)?
This is the first line of a passage known to tradition as the "Benedictus"--the passage that provided the sermon text for HCC's inaugural sermon on May 22, 2022.
What is "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel"?
Extra credit: "for he has visited and redeemed his people"
These were the topics of study during catechism hour in Advent 2024.
What are Advent hymns?
HCC's commitment to One Assembly requires that indefinite numerical growth be exchanged for this goal, another Distinctive Value.
What is Church Planting?
This, the first full phrase of the Nicene Creed, is recited once a month at HCC.
What is "We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen"?
What is "The Nachorama"?
He was the first person to receive the sacrament of baptism at Holy Covenant Church.
Who is Titus Bair?
At the first-ever session of Bleak Midwinter Talks, this speaker tackled the question of how we know what we know in a session on Epistemology.
Who is Tad Williams?
HCC's practice of team preaching minimizes the importance of preaching styles and personalities and upholds the centrality of this, one of the nine Distinctive Values.
What is Scripture?
A liturgical form NOT used at HCC today begins with the communion officiant declaring "Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed" (1 Cor 5:7), eliciting this response from the congregation.
What is "Therefore let us keep the feast"? ("Let us therefore celebrate the festival", ESV, also accepted)
Through Sunday, November 2, this elder has preached the most sermons at HCC.
Who is Dave Papendorf?
Dave 44, Daniel 42, Tad & Dan 34
HCC's first preaching series in the book of Genesis began in May 2022 and finished in this month and year.
What is July of 2023?
HCC's bylaws require that the leadership of HCC "shall substantially affirm the following historic doctrinal standards of Protestant Christianity: (1) the Belgic Confession; (2) the Westminster Confession of Faith; (3) the Heidelberg Catechism" and this well-known Protestant confession.
What is the Second London Baptist Confession?