Covenant OPC began in the 1990s when a number of people in a large evangelical church in London started reading the Puritans and Reformed theology. They desired a congregation where they could grow in God's grace and practice biblical principles without hindrance. Through the influence of men in the OPC and after investigating the alternatives they became convinced that London needed a new church, one that would be explicitly Presbyterian and Reformed.
The original members joined Oakland Hills Community Church, an OP congregation in the Detroit area, and made plans to establish a mission work in London. At the September meeting of the Midwest Presbytery a mission work was approved and an oversight committee established. The presbyters on this committee were Pastor Ralph Rebandt from OHCC, Rev. Jim Bosgraf, Regional Home Missionary for the Midwest Presbytery, and John Ferguson, then a ruling elder of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in St. Thomas.
Covenant held their first worship services in London in October 1997 in a rented office space. The following year they moved to a larger rental property near the city centre where they met for nearly three years. When the lease was almost up the neighbouring business required more space so Covenant relocated just west of the city limits to another rental property. This was a strategic move which put our meeting place closer to the geographic centre of the congregation. After a three-year lease they arranged to share the church building belonging to the Komoka Community Church, a Mennonite Brethren congregation two kilometers west of Kilworth. Our congregation subsequently purchased the building in 2008 from the Mennonite Conference.
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