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Global Engagements

We provide short-term trips for churches, global internships and immersions for individuals, and Re‑Vision Trips for pastors to strengthen our partnership with God’s global mission.

How We Help You Engage Globally

We help you engage in global missions through programs that provide significant learning,
deepening relationships, and the hope of lasting commitments.

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Merge Trips

Merge trips are designed to provide groups, individuals, couples and families with opportunities to spend one-two weeks participating in what God is doing around the world. You’ll form new relationships and learn a lot. When you return home you will have an expanded vision and passion for your church, your community, and your own life in Christ. We provide custom trips, pre-planned trips, disaster response trips, and virtual visits.

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Global Internships

We help individuals discern their missional calling through an experiential learning engagement with guided content, mentoring, and ministry elements in a cross-cultural setting. Interns work alongside our national partners and missionaries to be challenged and transformed by how God is at work through our partners. 

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Re-Vision Trips

Re-Vision trips are designed to provide congregational leaders with focused experiences and deepened understanding around missional themes in various cultures around the world. The themes for the trips include human trafficking, relief and development, refugee ministry, urban ministry, and peace and reconciliation, etc. Participants will learn from our ministry partners how God is at work in the country and how they engage with the above themes in their cultural context. The trips consist of men and women and multiple ethnicities to optimize the learning experience. The intended outcome is for mission leaders to find ways for their congregations to thoughtfully and deeply engage and invest in these global concerns with our global partners.

Global Immersions 

This program is designed to provide individuals, couples and families an opportunity to utilize their skills alongside our national partners, learn, and be challenged and transformed by how God is at work through our partners.

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Global Internships

This program is designed to help individuals discern their missional calling through experiential learning engagement with guided content, mentoring, and ministry elements in a cross-cultural setting.

We require that during your time, your practice reflects respect, dignity, and equality in relationships with our host partners embodying the values of Serve Globally.

You must be committed to actively engaging in learning through the building and fostering of relationships. We hope that you may know the people and the culture deeply and sensitively through total life immersion—learning through relationships its life ways, values, beliefs, language and communication patterns, history, and more.

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Fill out the application form provided through the link above. A $35 application fee will be required when submitting the form.

Once the application has been received, the Global Engagements international director will schedule an interview with you to discuss your skill set and where you will be best utilized.

Global Engagements will work with you and the mission host to create a budget considering Covenant’s options of stipend and health insurance, travel, and expenses. Fundraising can begin.

You will be responsible for raising 100% of all expenses during your time with the Global Internship program or using your own personal funds to cover costs. If you choose to fundraise, donations will be received through the Serve Globally office. You will be able to track your donations.

Questions? Email dale.lusk@covchurch.org

Global Immersions 

This program is designed for individuals or couples with specific skill sets that our partners are seeking to enhance their ministry. It is designed for people who are actively engaged in their own communities. Global Immersion participants will serve under the supervision of Serve Globally’s international partners who will assign supervisors, tasks, and roles in their ongoing ministry.

The Immersion program provides an opportunity to learn from our international partners. The intention is that the experience with other cultures will not be limited to the participant’s time spent in the country of service, but that they will bring their experience and witness to who God is back to their home church and community in order to engage in ministry in an even more passionate way. We also hope that participating in the Global Immersion program will encourage participants to continue growing deeper in Christ in their lifelong journey of faith.

APPLY NOW >>

Fill out the application form provided through the link above. A $35 application fee will be required when submitting the form.

Once application has been received, the Global Engagements international director will schedule an interview with you to discuss your skill set and where you will be best utilized.

You will be responsible for raising 100% of all expenses during your time with the Global Immersion program or use your own personal funds to cover costs. If you choose to fundraise, donations will be received through the Serve Globally office. You will be able to track your donations.

If improved language acquisition is required, the participant will spend a period of time in language study.

Questions? Email dale.lusk@covchurch.org

Covenant A-Z

Lina Sánchez-Herrera

Chicago West Suburbs, Illinois

ECC Conference: Central
Gender: Female

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AVAILABILITY

Receiving New Directees: Yes
Directing Clergy: Yes
Client Genders: Both men and women
Skype or Facetime: Yes
Languages: English, Spanish
Retreat/Workshop Leader: Yes

CERTIFICATION FROM

C. John Weborg Center for Spiritual Direction, North Park Theological Seminary

AREAS OF INTEREST

Pastors/Church Leadership, Missionaries, University Students, Discernment Process, Transitions, Multi-Ethnic Issues, Second Half of Life, Prayer, Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

Prior to moving to the USA, I was a professor at the National University of Colombia and served with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Colombia for 16 years. Starting in 2001, I served as InterVarsity National Staff in the USA. I have a master’s degree in Christian Ministries, and I serve in Spiritual Direction to those who want to be fully present and available to God and receive His grace over them. My joy is to see professors and college students coming to know Jesus and being transformed into people that bring the good news of righteousness and justice to others.

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