About the Author _______________________

On Father’s Day 1999, Pastor Charles Covington preached the sermon condensed for the Pen Pulpit of June 17, 2001 to his beloved congregation at the Community Grace Brethren Church in Long Beach. Lunch at his son’s home and a basketball game with his grandchildren followed. The next day he was in intensive care after suffering a massive stroke that almost took his life.

Charles Covington was born and raised in Muleshoe, Texas. At age 30 he accepted Christ as Savior and Lord and, sensing a need to learn more about God’s Word, enrolled in Moody Bible Institute. He later studied at Grace Bible Institute and Graduate School in Long Beach and Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California.

For seventeen years he taught doctrine and Bible survey classes at Grace Bible Institute. Many young men and women who are now in Christian ministry all over the world were his students. Pastor Covington also served as associate pastor of Bell Brethren Church, Bethany Baptist Church in Norwalk and senior pastorates at Community Bible Fellowship Church in El Toro, Grace Brethren Cypress, and Community Grace Brethren Long Beach.

The stroke left him unable to preach from the pulpit but his church family was reluctant to give up his gift of expositing the Word of God and thus began this series of “Pen Pulpits”.

Charles and I live in Whittier, California. We have been blessed with a passel of kids that call us “Mother, Dad, Gramma and Grampa.” God is, indeed, very good.

Eva Covington