Love Mercy Do Justice
Love Mercy Do Justice
We equip the local church to serve in the areas of criminal justice, domestic disaster response, immigration, intercultural development, community development ministry, economic justice, abuse advocacy, and racial righteousness.
Love Mercy Do Justice
How We Help Fix a Broken World
Criminal Justice
Alongside partners throughout the denomination, we work together to educate, equip, connect, and empower congregations to be the hands and feet of Christ in the midst of the complexities of the criminal justice system.
Ministry Development
We help your congregation or organization imagine creative approaches to transformational community development work in such areas as youth empowerment, financial literacy, returning citizen re-entry, living wage employment, and a wide array of other targeted and impactful initiatives. We offer support in the process of discerning vision, strategic planning, and best practice development. Ministry development grants are also available for Covenant churches that are responding to the needs of their community.
Racial Righteousness
Love Mercy Do Justice equips local congratulations to love their neighbors and be the light of Christ in their communities. We are commissioned to make God’s name known and love shown throughout the world. Our racial righteousness and reconciliation ministries unpack what this looks like within a divided world that has other principals and priorities. We offer Bible studies, immersive discipleship experiences, and congregational learning opportunities to help churches understand the biblical and theological basis for racial righteousness and reconciliation. These resources also explain how our pursuit of these Kingdom values allow us to join God in the mission of making more disciples among more populations in a more caring and just world.
Advocacy for Victims of Abuse
Intercultural Development
Domestic Disaster Response
CovEnterprises
We empower the church and social entrepreneurs with the necessary tools and resources to pursue transformation in under-resourced communities through social enterprise initiatives.
FREE Initiative
The FREE initiative, in partnership with Serve Globally, is an anti-sex trafficking initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Survivors of sex trafficking share stories of transformation >> >>
Resources
The first iteration of what will become a series of Bible studies focused on justice, racial righteousness, and the mosaic nature of the kingdom of God.
This course provides opportunities to hear from people directly impacted by the criminal justice system and resources for community engagement.
This new 4-session Bible study will help your small group or church community start or continue conversations about sexual abuse and its prevalence and reverberating effects in our society and churches.
A printable and video curriculum for kids that explores the theology and practical application of the justice journey for both the church and home, available in English and Spanish.
Assessments and practical tools to move churches along in their intercultural comprehension and development.
Click below for resources on immigration and the Church.
Events
An immersive discipleship experience that equips believers to seek the coming Kingdom, participate in the multiethnic mosaic, and pursue biblical justice.
Covenanters Collaborate with Neighbors to Reduce Gun Violence
According to their preliminary estimates, shootings in the neighborhood have dropped by 60 percent.
Sankofa: Join Us on the Bus
Hear from leaders and participants, as well as Sankofa veteran Nilwona Nowlin, who walks us through the journey—and shares her reflections after years of getting on the bus. For more information visit covchurch.org/sankofa
Big John Perkins Posthumously Awarded for Urban Ministry
John “Big John” Phillip Perkins was posthumously honored with the Irving C. Lambert Award for Outstanding Urban Ministry at the 136th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church in Kansas City, Missouri.
Holding the Tension
Sanetta Ponton, pastor of justice, advocacy, and compassion at Metro Community Church in Englewood, New Jersey, reminds us that the story of the African American experience is worthy to be told.
We Seek Racial Righteousness
Covenant historian Hauna Ondrey and Dominique Gilliard join us to talk about the end of the 1960s, the Black Manifesto, the Covenant’s unique response to this call to white churches and synagogues—and where we witness similar themes in our culture today.
Being Asian Is Not Enough: A Reflection on AAPI Month
Ordained Covenant pastor Sherin Swift talks about the complexities of the labels we place on others.
