Covenant World Relief & Development has been the Evangelical Covenant Church’s response to human suffering and injustice in the world for more than 60 years. CWRD works through local partners around the world to reduce human suffering for the most vulnerable people and support healthy communities.

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One way we support CWRD is by purchasing Communion Wafers in partnership with the Hindustani Covenant Church. Covenant World Relief & Development is able to provide communion wafers produced at the Home of Hope in Pune, India. Women who escape the commercial sex industry come to the Home of Hope to receive counseling, rest, and learn new jobs, including making communion wafers. More information can be found on the CWRD website.

The global water crisis affects millions of kids’ and women’s lives in the developing world. People without access to clean water have to walk an average of 6 kilometers (that’s a little over 3.7 miles) every day to get dirty water for all their basic needs—cooking, cleaning, drinking. By joining with World Vision, we are helping put an end to this! The Global 6K is a simple, effective way to make a difference in the life of one person in need. Every step we take is one they won’t have to.

MERGE provides Covenant churches opportunities to partner with other ministries around the world. MERGE is committed to support churches in developing long-term partnerships with cross-cultural ministries and communities. Their mission is to share and experience God’s love through an ongoing physical, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual exchange, to use the mission team’s unique gifts, talents, and abilities to encourage lives, to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, to build the body of Christ, and to glorify God.

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PCC's inter-generational mission team of 25 people was planning on partnering with a church in Costa Rica in June 2020, but the trip was canceled due to the pandemic. 

The 50+ year legacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo has changed over the years, but the focus on medical and economic development has remained rooted in partnership. PCP focuses on improving medical care by working alongside medical directors and doctors who oversee the healthcare system in the northwest region of Congo. Economic development remains a crucial area of partnership due to extreme poverty. Focusing on capacity building and sustainability, we contribute to the development of projects, individuals, and organizations committed to long-term growth. We aim work with, not for, people who are making a difference in their own communities. 

Our annual care package of chocolates, coffees and nuts are collected and sent to Covenant radio station KICY in Nome, Alaska.  KICY broadcasts the Good News of Jesus Christ into Alaska and Russia.  In addition we participate in 100% Sunday by inviting the congregants to donate $1.00 each to support this mission.

Pilgrim Covenant Church supplies meals to the soup kitchen.  Watch for the sign-up every other month to see what foods are needed and sign-up to bring food.  Cash donations can also be given.  Drop off your meals in the church kitchen by 2:00 pm on the Monday the church provides the meal.

Annual "Hope Totes" initiative for the Springfield Rescue Mission saw the collection of many overflowing boxes of toiletries.

The Red Cross Blood Drive is organized and held at Pilgrim Covenant Church at various points during the year.  Many people from the church and wider community come to donate blood.

The International Potluck Feast is typically held annually. In previous years we have heard about ministry life with Covenant missionaries Ron & Janet Ziegelbaur in Cameroon & the Springfield Rescue Mission. We also collect donations for each of these ministries. 

Christina’s House is a Christ-centered ministry developed to meet the needs of women and their children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the Springfield area. Their mission is to provide transitional housing while encouraging, embracing, and educating these women. 

The New England Seafarers Mission has been serving seafarers in the port of Boston since 1880.  The mission began when a pastor began visiting Swedish ships.  Today, NESM provides outreach to the international work force of women and men who make their living at sea on industrial and cruise ship ocean going vessels. NESM offers physical support by way of communication with their families at home, transport for crew through secure marine terminals for shore leave, a center for cruise ship personnel for money transfer, postage and parcel service and a commissary. The mission also offers advocacy for legal, medical or personal issues.  The mission serves approximately 25,000 people from 159 countries annually.

NESM is a ministry of the Evangelical Covenant Church and is a cooperating ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.  The staff and volunteers at the mission affirm to the seafarers who pass through the ports of New England that they are loved by God and that they have dignity as an in individual created in God’s image. 

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You can support by participating in a Cruise Ship Mission Day in the fall where we go to Boston and staff the mission center when a ship is in port, collecting donations to the Ditty Bag Ministry (sewing ditty bags or knitting hats), praying for seafarers who are separated from their families for many months while working in dangerous conditions, and by giving financial donations to the mission.

Additional information can be found on the website: www.neseafarers.org. You can also listen to the story that was broadcast on Radio Boston on July 7, 2020.