From the very beginning of the Covenant Church, missions was a very important part of the denomination. The first name give to these early converts was Mission Friends and then it was changed to Evangelical Mission Covenant and more recently to Evangelical Covenant Church of America.

Today we as a church send a portion of our budget that goes to help support our 102 career missionaries and 30 short-term missionaries in 17 countries. Earlier this year, a third opportunity - a pilot program called Project Missionary was implemented. The Project Missionary initiative allows Covenanters to serve from three to six years on strategic projects that will move God's mission outreach forward. We have seven project missionaries beginning their missionary service in this new program.

We also send contributions from time to time to support Covenant World Relief. A million and a half was raised and distributed to crises needs, though our missionaries and National Association of Evangelicals.

Besides our own Covenant mission, the members of Wiley Heights Covenant Church also support missionaries from various other missions ,such as the Africa Inland Mission.

Covenant World Mission

The global mission of the Covenant Church is to take the grace and truth of Jesus Christ into the diverse cultures of the world. We are linked with Covenant Churches worldwide who are also involved in this one mission. Learn more about the work of the 140 missionaries serving in 25 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that we help support through the Covenant World Mission. To learn more about the work of the Covenant World Mission, visit their website at http://www.covchurch.org

Pray for our Covenant Missionaries - Current Prayer Needs for Covenant missionaries are recorded several times a week and easily accessed by calling 1-800-366-7729.

A monthly general fund contribution is also made to support the work of Covenant Missionaries around the world. We are assigned to Special Interest Missionaries in connection with this contribution:

The Women Ministries also provides a yearly gift to two Special Interest Missionaries (SIMs) assigned by the Covenant, as well as Carla, Kym, Barbara, Esther Ruth, Lisa, and Patty Arensen, and Kristy Faber.

For more information on How to Pray for Covenant Missionaries, click here.

Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a nondenominational Christian missionary sending agency serving primarily in Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean. AIM was founded in 1895 and currently has more than 850 missionaries. To learn more about the work of the Africa Inland Mission, visit their website at www.aimint.org/usa

Other charitable/missionary support

Each year, the Wiley Heights congregation supports a number of worthy causes and charitable efforts by Christian organizations. Just of few of these are:

Wiley Heights Covenant Quilters: This busy ladies quilting group, make over 40 quilts annually that are given to different local charities including, the Red Cross, Camp Prime Time, the Center for Battered Women at the YWCA, other deserving charities.

Wiley Heights Youth:   Connects with AMORE Ministries annually to help build homes for poor families in northern Mexico during spring break mission trips.

Covenant World Relief - a special offering taken each November to support collaborations with partners around the world to provide relief and facilitate immediate response to disaster and human suffering.

Christmas Shoeboxes - each year the congregation gathers together toys and essentials for children in poor countries around the globe and donates the wrapped shoeboxes of goodies to Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child.

Praize & Compassion - The Wiley Heights Youth raises funds and donates monthly support to pay for the education and basic health care expenses of Virginia Gutierrez in Bolivia.

Union Gospel Mission - throughout the year the Wiley Heights congregation supports the Yakima Union Gospel Mission through gifts of needed items as well as conducting services at the mission once every two months.

Special Offerings - As an extension of God's work at Wiley Heights, the congregation has taken special offerings to support the development of new Covenant churches/ministries.

Building bridges between Christian & Muslim communities: Andy Larsen works across the U.S. to break down barriers of fear, building on what we do share in common in our faith.

Wiley Heights Covenant Church
12504 Gilbert Road
Yakima, Washington 98903
(509) 966-2383
Fax (509) 966-6948
Email mail at wileyheightscovenant.org
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