Serve
Globally
We join the global Church through global partnerships and sending global personnel to engage in God’s mission across cultures and around the world.
Serve Globally
How We Engage in God’s Mission
The Evangelical Covenant Church is committed to the whole mission of God—extending the whole gospel to the whole world. Through sending of personnel, training people through theological education, equipping local congregations, and cultivating global partnerships we serve globally in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Middle East North Africa.
Global Personnel
We support Global Personnel in more than 63 countries to serve alongside local partners to form and equip communities of Christ-followers through culturally relevant evangelism and transformational ministries that seek to address the spiritual, social, emotional, mental, physical, and justice needs of the community demonstrating the whole Gospel.
Global Engagements
We provide short-term trips for churches, global internships and immersions for individuals, and re-vision trips for pastors to strengthen our partnership with God’s global mission.
Center for World Christian Studies
CWCS is a bridge between North Park Theological Seminary and Serve Globally’s international network of partners. CWCS provides training, scholarships, internship opportunities, and intercultural development assessments for students, global personnel, churches, and related ministry organizations.
Paul Carlson Parnership
Our mission is to catalyze the holistic growth of healthy families and communities in places of deep poverty. Working together with partners in Africa and elsewhere, we invest in local efforts in medical and economic development.
Covenant Kids Congo
Covenant Kids Congo, a partnership with the Covenant in the U.S. and Canada, the Covenant Church of Congo, and World Vision, began in 2012 as a response to the needs of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We continue to work for sustainable community development and clean water, education, health, agriculture, economic development, and advocacy.
Covenant World Relief and Development
Covenant World Relief and Development works through local partners around the world to reduce human suffering for the most vulnerable people and to support healthy communities.
Resources
This guide is designed to help churches discern, establish, and strengthen connections with missionaries or global personnel and global partners supported by your congregation.
This resource provides guiding questions and exercises to help your church think carefully about how to journey together with global partnerships for enduring kingdom impact.
A six week study of the Book of Jonah for groups that will provide a deeper appreciation of the relentless love of God for all people, no matter who they are or what they have done.
A convenient daily prayer guide to pray for God’s work around the world and specifically for Covenant missionaries, ministry partners, and the countries in which they serve.
As Serve Globally we are committed to the mission of the Covenant by joining God and the global church in God’s mission to see more disciples among more populations in a more caring and just world.
Recommended reading from Serve Globally
An anti-sex trafficking initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church that calls the global church to pray, learn, give, and act to oppose the evil of sex-trafficking both domestically and globally.
Since 1965, committed friends with a missionary spirit have joined together to support the work of Covenant missionaries and our international ministry partners by collectively contributing to Friends of World Mission (FOWM) projects.
Nothing Is Wasted in the Kingdom of God
Serving as global personnel in northern Germany, Stephanie Voland shares a testimony of healing after a lymphoma diagnosis in early 2024. With winter as her backdrop, she reflects on God’s sustaining presence, the gift of rest, and the promise that nothing is wasted in God’s kingdom.
Biking for Congo Reaches $50,000 Goal for Healthcare
The Paul Carlson Partnership celebrates reaching its $50,000 goal through the 2025 Biking for Congo Challenge. Riders and supporters across the country helped expand access to healthcare, clean water, and essential medicine for families in DR Congo.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Cheryl Lynn Alexander-Bermúdez examines how power shapes Christian mission—from how it forms us internally to how it operates in relationships and institutions—and invites deeper discernment so mission moves toward shared flourishing rather than harm.
Refugee Crisis Deepens Across East Africa Amid Aid Cuts
Covenant partners report reduced rations and services in refugee camps as international aid declines, even as people continue to arrive from the DRC and South Sudan. Learn what partners are doing to support resilience and advocate for policy change.
Josef Rasheed Is New Interim Superintendent of the Midsouth Conference
The Midsouth Conference board announced that Rev. Josef Rasheed has been selected to serve as interim superintendent.
Free to Live
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we share a reflection from survivor leader Sunita on Isaiah 61:4. From the Covenant’s Week of Prayer resource and FREE, the anti-sex trafficking initiative, it invites prayer for survivors and those who accompany them toward healing.
