Covenant Life Church

Covenant Life Church is a reformed charismatic church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It has its roots in the "Jesus People" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and through church planting. Covenant Life Church, along with other churches, came under the Sovereign Grace Ministries umbrella. Later renamed Sovereign Grace Churches the organization has taken on a more denominational structure. Covenant Life Church was the flagship church of Sovereign Grace Ministries until it left the group in December 2012.

The church began in 1977 as a group of 30 meeting in a Rockville, Maryland basement, under the name "Gathering of Believers". This group included Larry Tomczak and C.J. Mahaney. Mahaney held the role of lead pastor for over 20 years, and in 2004 passed this role to Joshua Harris (author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Boy Meets Girl,). In January 2015 Joshua Harris stepped down as lead pastor.

Covenant Life Church had its roots in a city-wide charismatic prayer meeting called Take and Give (TAG) which ran from 1970 to 1979. TAG began as a small bible study led by Lydia Little, a Washington, DC area resident who had experienced the Jesus People revival in California and wanted to see similar renewal brought to local young people. TAG continued to grow in numbers with the Tuesday night meetings moving from the Blair High School auditorium to a larger auditorium space at Christ Church of Washington. Larry Tomczak and C.J. Mahaney became the main teachers with Jim Orban leading worship and a number of other young people taking on other leadership responsibilities as the group grew.

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