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The Department of Compassion, Mercy, and Justice is a department of collaboration and works in cooperation with other departments and institutions of the Evangelical Covenant Church to move the church forward in the areas of Compassion, Mercy, and Justice. Ministries of the Department of Compassion, Mercy, and Justice 
Covenant World Relief
Established in 1946, Covenant World Relief has served as the
international humanitarian aid and development arm of the ECC (in times
of extreme need it also does USA domestic disaster response). Our
charge is to assist the “poorest of the poor” by offering Relief, Rehabilitation, and Development. Covenant
World Relief is an effective, efficient, respected and flexible
humanitarian aid ministry in Christ’s name, with a sixty year history.
CWR works through local churches, collaborations, and partnerships.
This increases local presence in service, controls and reduces
overhead, empowers local ministry, and grants immediate response to
disaster and human suffering. Journey toward Racial Righteousness
The Evangelical Covenant
Church is committed to developing tools to assist the local church in
moving forward in the area of racial righteousness. Read on to learn
more about several experiences in racial righteousness that are
available to your church, and accept our invitation to join us on
this...Journey toward Racial Righteousness. The Invitation to Racial Righteousness
An experience that will challenge participants to move beyond language
and knowledge of racial righteousness to a deeper place of personal
awareness, responsibility, healing and action. Striving toward the
Kingdom vision reflected in Revelation 7:9, the Invitation to Racial Righteousnesswill help participants:
- engage in relationship and community building activities to move toward true community across ethnic and racial lines;
- explore racial and ethnic injustices that exist in our society;
- identify action steps for change, both personally and as a community.
Sankofa
Sankofa is a West African word meaning “looking backward to move
forward.” The Sankofa journey, an intentional, cross-racial prayer
journey, seeks to assist disciples of Christ on their move towards a
righteous response to the social ills related to racism. This
interactive experience explores historic sites of importance in the
Civil Rights movement, sites of oppression and inequality for people of
color, while seeking to move participants toward healing the wounds and
racial divide caused by hundreds of years of racial injustice in the
USA. Journey to Mosaic Journey to Mosaic is a multicultural ministry experience of the regional conferences of the Evangelical Covenant Church. The Journey to Mosaic helps contextualize the Sankofa concept to explore the historical and present-day injustices related to the ethnic communities of each conference.
Christian FormationDisability MinistriesRoughly one in five people lives with some sort of disability. Our aim
is to network, educate, and resource churches and the Covenant as a
whole so that persons with disabilities and their families are
effectively served and fully included in the life and ministries of the
Covenant and their local communities. Read more about disability ministries here. Feet to Faith Feet to Faith is a pilot youth justice conference. It will be held at
Seattle University August 6-11th, 2008. The goal is to show students
that God has called them to put feet to their faith where they live.
The five-day event will have a five-fold focus of World Issues of
Hunger, AIDS and Poverty; Immigration and Refugees; Creation Care and
Environmental Justice; Racial Justice; and Homelessness. Children's Service Project
This year's Children's Service Project, "Caring for the Children"
will enable children in North America to help the children of India.
The money they give will care for children in India by providing them
with food, clothing, and an education. CHIC
CHIC (Covenant High In Christ) is the triennial youth conference of The Evangelical Covenant Church.
CHIC exists to be a catalyst that inspires Christ-like change, challenge students to see themselves as part of something bigger and inspire students towards the journey of following Christ. Through CHIC, we want to see students be a Christ-centered community (Genesis 28:3),confident in their relationship with Christ (Romans 8:38-39) and committed to doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly wih their God (Micah 6:8).
World Mission  The Paul Carlson Partnership The Paul Carlson Partnership is a not-for-profit aid and development
organization that works closely with like-minded persons and
organizations across North America. It is affiliated with the
Evangelical Covenant Church through the ECC's compassionate outreach
initiatives.
The PCP addresses three areas of urgent need:
health, poverty, and education. We are committed to serving the poorest
of the poor in the world, with a priority on Africa, Asia, and South
America. From June 2004 to the close of 2008 our focus is on the
Democratic Republic of Congo. At that point we expect to expand our
work to another country, still to be chosen, while maintaining our
commitment in Congo. While the Partnership provides immediate
assistance as needed, we focus especially on long-term development and
sustainability.
Church Growth and EvangelismThe Five Fold Test for Ethnic DiversityRecently, the Ethnic Commission created the “fivefold test,” which
measures the Covenant’s progress toward becoming truly multicultural.
The Commission was also the driving force behind the groundbreaking
Ethnic Round Table held in February 2004, at which ECC administrators
and ECC ethnic leaders gave recommendations in each area of the
fivefold test. And the commission is charged with monitoring the
Covenant’s continuing progress in the implementation of those
recommendations. Commission on Ethnic MinistriesThe Ethnic Commission exists to serve as a point of
discussion, reflection, and recommendation on the multicultural
directions and strategies of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Ministerial Associations
Women Ministries Break the Chains "Break the Chains" initiative on human trafficking. Human trafficking is growing every year. Of the 600,000-800,000 people
who are trafficked across international borders each year, 80% are
women and girls. 60% are minors. The majority are enslaved in the sex
trade.
Covenant Ministries of Benevolence and the Regional ConferencesChurches Planting Ministries
Churches Planting Ministries is an initiative of the Evangelical
Covenant Church designed to encourage and facilitate local
congregations engaged in community ministries with the poor and at-risk.
North Park Theological SeminaryCenter for Justice MinistriesThe Center for Justice Ministries at North Park Theological Seminary works with
the Evangelical Covenant Church Department of Compassion, Mercy, and Justice to help
Christian Leaders think theologically about the development and delivery of
ministries of compassion and justice. The Center for Justice Ministries seeks to
establish concerns for justice as central to ministry, seminary education and
church practice.
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