Celebration of four decades

Mt. Zion Senior Pastor Loren and Bonnie Covarrubias lead the church in its 40-year celebration. Photo provided

Mt. Zion is celebrating 40 years of ministry this week with illusionist Justin Flom, guest speaker Joseph Mattera, worship night with Mosaic MSC, Cody Carnes, Mack Brock and Local Sound, and messages from Senior Pastor Loren Covarrubias, founder.
“This is not about only looking back over 40 years, this is our time to spring forth — the foundation has been laid and now it the time for even greater things,” Covarrubias said.
Mt. Zion originated in 1977 when Covarrubias, 23 at the time, was praying in his parent’s home about starting a church.
The Lord gave him a promise, “I will make you vessel of the new wine and I will give you a people that out of the midst of them shall flow the wine of the Lord—multiplication and increase, multiplication and increase,” he said.
In 1978, after completing Ministers Candidate School at Bethesda Missionary Temple, then located in Detroit, but now known as Bethesda Christian Church in Sterling Heights, Covarrubias started the church in his parent’s basement with 30 pioneers.
In December 1978, Mt. Zion purchased its first church building on Clintonville Road in Waterford. After acquiring 52 acres along I-75 in the late 80’s, and developing a larger church in the early 90’s, Mt. Zion has been relocated off Maybee Road.
Mt. Zion has always focused on serving the community, locally and internationally, through multiple expansion programs, renovations, the purchase of multiple community centers, and expanding to El Salvador in 2004, and even recently to Cuba, said Rich Nowik, associate pastor.
“In 2009, we dedicated our 3,400-seat auditorium and completed the development of our property with a vision for all the Lord has spoken to us over the past 40 years,” Nowik said.
For more information, check www.mtzion.org.

 

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