We believe Christians grow through service to our neighbor and is part of a holistic approach to our faith. The following list of local and national agencies is a sampling of formal ways we see our faith impacting social and spiritual needs...
COMPASSION AND JUSTICE MINISTRIES WE SUPPORT
COVENANT WORLD MISSIONS
Covenant World Mission has more than one hundred twenty-five long-term, project and short-term missionaries working in a wide variety of vocations in twenty-three countries around the globe. We have an additional fifteen partnership with sister churches and international ministries. The department currently is partnering with:
- churches and international ministries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America;
- hundreds of Covenant churches throughout the U.S. and Canada working together to proclaim the gospel internationally and in their local communities;
- local churches connecting mission teams with projects around the world; and
- Covenant people from around the world joining together to pray, celebrate, and work together in response to the movement of God.
For complete information on Covenant Missions, please visit the World Missions website here
COVENANT WORLD RELIEF
Covenant World Relief is the humanitarian aid ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church. We participate in God’s transforming mission in the world through disaster relief and community development among the most vulnerable. We work with Covenanters and other partners around the world to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable who suffer from extreme poverty, hunger, disease, and injustice. Our mission is to love, serve, and work together with the poor, the powerless, and the marginalized.
Relief is immediate assistance in times of natural or human-made disaster by providing water, shelter, and food.
Transformational Development is working with communities and families as they help themselves through microenterprise, microfinance, sustainable water development, community health initiatives, agriculture, and sustainable food programs.
For complete information, please visit the World Relief website here
LOVE INC.
Love In the Name of Christ is a national ministry with more than 120 affiliates, representing a partnership of over 7,000 churches and 6,000 community-based organizations.
Love INC provides a model churches can use to work together, across denominational lines, to help people in need in their communities.
For local assistance, contact:
Whatcom County LOVE Inc
P.O. Box 1602 Bellingham, WA. 98227
(360) 671-6201
website: Love INC.
email: office@whatcomloveinc.org
INTERFAITH COALITION
Interfaith Coalition is a partnership of nearly 50 congregations in Whatcom County working to provide basic necessities to local people in need especially in the areas of medical, dental and mental-health care.
For more information, contact:
Bellingham Interfaith Coalition
2401 Cornwall Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 734-3983
website: InterFaith Coalition
email: info@interfaith-coalition.org