The purpose of the missions ministry is to help our church implement "Knowing Christ and Making Him Known" by supporting worldwide missions and encouraging our congregation to be involved in sending missionaries to the field, and in being sent.

MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OUR CHURCH

Perhaps your heart aches for the homeless.  Or the developmentally challenged, or the hurting or the dying.  Our church doesn't specifically have programs for all groups of people but can come alongside those who do.  The body of Christ is much larger than our church and there are others who have thriving ministries in areas we lack.  Rather than reinvent what they are doing, let's join them!

Click on "read more" to learn of other opportunities presented to our body.

The church supports several families that are serving in "the uttermost parts of the earth".  We can't get much more specific than that with this public medium, as their visas are issued for the professional work they do because missionaries are not welcome. 

Please pray for them, however.  As we get them, we will add their photos as a reminder to do just that.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Great Commission Ministries

Trish is working in a hard place, a country that has forgotten their rich spiritual heritage.  It is a country of lovely people whom God loves. 

CSU, Fort Collins, CO

Campus Crusade for Christ

Joe and Shawna reach CSU students though weekly worship, Bible studies, leadership training, and missions projects.

After attending a weekly meeting for the first time, a student told the team, "This was awesome!  Are they all like this?"

See excerpts from their August 2010 newsletter by clicking on "Read More" below.

Central America and other Spanish-speaking countries

Covenant Merge Ministries

Dale and Sarah train missions teams in North America to serve & reach Spanish speaking people, then assist in missions trips to Latin America and other Spanish-speaking countries.   

Refuge of Grace Orphanage-Llata Orphanage

Pastor Gomer Cruz and his wife Vicki run an orphanage in a remote area of Peru, the town of Llata.  Click on "Read More" for a photo and a description of their ministry.

In October 2009, Gomer wrote, "Please recieve greetings from the Refuge of Grace, also from my wife and all the boys and girls, may God bless and protect you. The children of our orphanage are doing well even though occasionally..."  Read the rest by clicking on "Read More" below.

Chicago, Illinois 

Covenant World Missions

Until the end of the 2006-2007 school year when Covenant Bible College closed, Baxter and Margie were teachers and counselors at the camputs in Ecuador.  (Click here for an article about the final graduation.)  Because they are veteran missionaries with extensive experience, they have been asked to co-direct missionary personnel for the Covenant Department of World Missions. 

Click the "See More" link below to see their October 2009 note to the congregation.

Our denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church, spearheads two global missionary efforts.

Covenant World Missions (CWM) facilitates intercultural ministries around the world.  They partner with churches and international believers to glorify God's name by bringing the whole gospel to the whole world.  There are opportunities to be involved in many different areas - praying, giving and going.

CWM has an excellent guide for praying for missionaries.  If you feel led, choose one of our missionaries and pray for them using this guide.

Covenant World Relief is "an effective, efficient, respected and flexible humanitarian aid ministry in Christ's name.  For 60 years, Covenant World Relief has been equipping churches and communities to help victims of poverty, disease, hunger, war, disasters, and persecution."  They were involved in relief efforts after the 2004 tsunami and the hurricanes that devasted the U.S. coast in 2005.  Your gifts to Covenant World Relief can help in these efforts or will feed and equip the poor all over the world. For example, a donation of only $.07 buys a meal for a Ugandan child, $2.50 buys school supplies for a child in Congo, and $5.00 purchases a machete for a farmer.  It costs so little to make such a big difference!