Compassion and Justice

•Covenant World Missions

•Covenant World Relief

•Love INC - Love in the Name of Christ

•Interfaith Coalition

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:

1. •churches and international ministries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America;
   

2. •hundreds of Covenant churches throughout the U.S. and Canada working together to proclaim the gospel internationally and in their local communities;
   

3. •local churches connecting mission teams with projects around the world; and
   

4. •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 micro-enterprise, micro-finance, 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')
Love In the Name of Christ (Love INC) 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.

Here's how the Love Inc. model works:
1. Asking for help
A person in need is either referred to Love INC by a church within the network or by a local agency, or the individual makes direct contact.

2. Qualifying for help
Specially trained Love INC interviewers assess the request, determining the caller's commitment toward self-help and discovering any larger issues fueling the crisis.

3. Providing help
The request is referred to the most appropriate Love INC church, partnering faith-based organization, or community agency, so that volunteers, material resources, and outreach programs can be matched to the corresponding need.

4. Following up
The outcome is reviewed. Was the immediate need met? Is there a core issue that requires attention?

At this stage, the person in need also has the opportunity to meet with a pastor or become connected to a church if he or she desires. This is often the stage where real hope and long-term relationships emerge.

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.

Interfaith Community Health Center provides quality medical, dental and mental-health care to low-income people in the community.  Interfaith Coalition also operates six units of family housing, training volunteer teams to support homeless families as they work toward self-sufficiency.

Interfaith Coalition also coordinates an annual countywide winter coat drive, distributing coats through local food banks to children and adults in need, and a holiday program that matches homeless families with congregational sponsors who provide these families with gifts.

For more information, contact:
Bellingham Interfaith Coalition
2401 Cornwall Ave.
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 734-3983

website: InterFaith Coalition
email: info@interfaith-coalition.org