In his new role with Start and Strengthen Churches, Fil Nesta reflects on the challenges and resilience shaping bilingual church planting—highlighting the Latino church’s leadership, innovation, and witness as it navigates this moment and looks toward a hopeful future.
In communities across the country, Covenant churches are responding to changing immigration policies and enforcement through prayer, public witness, education, and tangible care—navigating this moment with courage and a deep commitment to their communities.
On February 15, Centennial Covenant Church in Littleton, Colorado, hosted its fourth Many Nations gathering—an evening where churches and ministries came together to worship and pray across cultures and languages.
This story began with a prayer and a closet—and grew into a ministry serving Savannah’s most vulnerable people. Born from Radiant Church’s mission to bring hope beyond its walls, this resale shop demonstrates how obedience to small things can spark transformational community change.
As American churches succumb to the same divisions affecting the rest of culture, the Covenant’s commitment to unity across difference has never been more countercultural — or more needed. Drawing on sociologist Ryan Burge’s research and his new book, The Vanishing Church, this piece explores why staying in the room with people who disagree can be a radical act of discipleship.
Amid fear and uncertainty in the Twin Cities, Covenant churches are living into their shared life in Christ—adapting ministries, gathering in prayer, and practicing costly love as a witness to the kingdom of God.
After a massive ceiling beam collapsed inside Paxton Covenant Church, Pastor Keith Reuther reflects on a narrow miss, an outpouring of community support, and the unexpected opportunity for witness and growth in the midst of disruption.
In Manhattan, Kansas, a new church community is taking shape around worship, prayer, and neighborhood connection, learning together what it means to move toward Jesus in everyday life.
Council Tree Covenant Church’s listening trip to the Wind River Reservation created space for deeper connection with the Northern Arapaho community, reshaping how they understand their own story and God’s work through patience, presence, and relationship.
This story looks at how heightened immigration-enforcement activity is reshaping everyday church life, particularly in Latino communities. Through Covenant pastors’ experiences and congregations’ responses, we see the the steady, faithful ways our churches continue to show up for one another.
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