Cross-Cultural Learnings
Video shown in worship on July 28, 2024
Global Missions: March 12, 2025
EVERY STEP YOU TAKE
IS ONE THEY WON’T HAVE TO
Centennial folks were so responsive to last year’s 6K fun run (Over $5000 raised!) that we’re doing it again! This year’s 6K will be held at CLEMENT PARK in LITTLETON, on Saturday May 17th beginning at 9 am. If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, come cheer and enjoy a fun day and lunch in our covered shelter at Clement Park.
Registration fees and donations will help fund water projects, hand-washing stations, water for local schools, village wells, and 24/7water for hospitals and medical clinics. Any funds raised by Covenant churches across North America will be designated to the Covenant Kids Congo in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Register or make a donation to Centennial’s team COV4CONGO.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR DONATE
MORE QUESTIONS? Contact a Global Team member or send an email to globalteamsend@centcov.org
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Hear an update from Covenant Kids Congo 2024—
great progress made; more work to be done!
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Hear how clean water made a difference in Mahana’s life!
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NEWS FROM ARGENTINA!
Our mission partner Colleen Nahnychuk asks prayer for 40 students re-starting their studies this March in the local seminary. Studies were disrupted by Covid and other events, and this cohort of 40 is due to graduate in November. Pray for these leaders and future leaders of the Argentinian Covenant Church!
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Mary Lou and Gary Sander will be retiring from ministry in Columbia this summer, and that brings BIG CHANGE to the Covenant Church there! Missionaries “enter with an exit strategy” and the goal to “train faithful people who will be able to train others also” (2 Timothy 2:2). They sent this prayer request for March:
“We lift before you the need for UNITY of HEART and MIND and VISION as the Pacto (The Evangelical Covenant Church in Colombia) forges new paths of relating with ECC Serve Globally and other national churches without the benefit of the presence of Global Personnel who have been in country and on site for the past 57 years since the Pacto began in 1968. Everyone wants to continue going forward together. Please accompany us as we pray for clear communication and understanding, as we pray for good listening ears to hear the heartbeats of vision for going forward, and as we pray for postures of mutual submission to the Lord God and to one another as he calls everyone to accompany him in what he is doing and will do. The goal is to have this ministry agreement in writing by the end of June.”
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Purpose
To see Jesus’ redemptive power transform us and our broken world.
Values
Following Christ, Developing Character, Connecting with Others on our Team, Honoring Others on our Team, Contributing with Excellence
Mission
We support, engage and resource our mission partners and our congregation in global mission.
MISSION PARTNERS
Jim & Hydi Peterson, Japan
Peter & Ruth Dutton, Thailand
Gary & Mary Lou Sander, Colombia
Jon & Lynda Hardin, Frontiers USA
Colleen Nahnychuk, Argentina
Karina Taracinska, Poland
Words of Hope
Kenya Partnerships
Mission Ministries, Juarez, Mexico
John & Kathy Pyrc, Imago Christi
Bill O’Byrne, Imago Christi
Roy Graham, Imago Christi
GETTING INVOLVED
We believe that there are 6 primary ways to get involved in Global Mission.
Nobody is designed for all, but all of us are designed for at least one.
Learn
There are a lot of resources to help us learn more. Try reaching out to the missionaries we support to learn more about them and contact our Global Team for more resources.
Pray
Prayer and Intercession is one of the most vital ways we can participate in God’s Global Mission. Try “adopting” one of our missionaries and commit to praying for them regularly.
Welcome
With the ease of International travel and communication, we have seen an increase in internationals visiting our country. This is a great opportunity to engage and create life-giving relationships with them. Try visiting an ethnic restaurant that you haven’t been to and get to know the staff or volunteer to host students from other countries.
Send
Giving of our resources is a very effective way of supporting ongoing missions across the world. Try supporting a missionary financially on a monthly basis or being a source of encouragement and support for them.
Mobilize
Advocating for our missionaries and encouraging others to get involved. Try getting involved in CCC’s Global Team.
Go
“Go” is the most traditional understanding of involvement in Global Mission. Try going on a short-term or mid term trip with CCC.