Missionaries & Mission Projects We Support

Arny and Jan Arnold. Arny is a former Covenant Youth Pastor. He continues to work with inner city Baltimore youth serving with Young Life.

Michael and Adrienne Bucklin are on home assignment in North Carolina. Michael serves with the Junge Aviation And Radio Service (JAARS) in North Carolina as part of the IT Department. Formerly in mission aviation, the Bucklins remain committed to supporting Bible translation through their technical service with JAARS.

Don and Claire-Lise Cobb serve in France with Mission to the World, Don teaches New Testament and church planting in one of the only evangelical Seminaries in French-speaking Europe.

Sharlene and Brian Coker Sharlene (Burkett) and Brian serve with Missionary Aviation Fellowship in Papua, New Guinea. They share the love of Jesus Christ through aviation and technology so that isolated people may be physically and spiritually transformed by bringing desperately needed aid and assistance to people in remote places. In 2010 the team flew just over 7,300 hours which included supporting 5,200 church workers, 5,700 health and education workers, as well as 500 medevacs. To complete this vital work they operate and maintain 14 aircraft.

Stephen Gundlach is serving as an intern for the Spiritual Formation ministry at City Church of San Francisco. This allows him to help equip lay leaders with a rich understanding of the Gospel and go with them in mission to the city of San Francisco.

Dan and Carol Iverson serve in Japan with Mission to the World. Dan is MTW Japan country director, Tokyo team leader of the expanding church planting team, and pastor of Oyumino Church. Carol is a teacher and board member of the small, international hybrid school. Visit the Iverson’s website to read their blog and latest news.

Eric and Marilyn Loftsgard are serving in Managua, Nicaragua with Missionary Ventures International. They partner with The Nehemia Center, House of Hope, and Nicaragua Christian Academy. The Nehemiah Center trains lay and pastoral leaders in an integral, biblical worldview and encourages local, national and international collaboration for a Christ-centered, transformational development of communities and nations. The House of Hope is a vocational center for women who are or have been in prostitution to provide them with a means to make a living and establish them in the Lord. Nicaragua Christian Academy is a Christian school located just outside Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua. providing children with an education firmly rooted in God's truth and in academic excellence.

Don and Fran McNeill are strengthening the church in Uganda through Theological education at Westminster Theological College & Seminary Uganda. Don teaches and Fran is the librarian and runs the computer lab. They serve with Mission to the World.

David and Amy Mozombite serve with South American Missions in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. David is an aviation mechanic assuring flight service is available for mission travel into remote jungle areas, etc. He and Amy are also involved in work in the local church.

David and Dialis Romero serve in Honduras with Missionary Ventures International after being called by the Lord to start the orphanage about 12 years ago. They work with the Honduran government as far as receiving the children. Through generous donations, they have built a kindergarten, prep school, elementary school, and a high school to encompass grades Pre-K thru 9th.

Steve and Beth Schoof serve with Mission to the World in Perth, Australia, where Steve is the Senior Pastor of a church of about 500 people. He promotes and assists with teaching evangelism and church planting in this city and state and beyond.

Dave and Jan Veldhorst serve in Bangkok, Thailand with Mission to the World. Dave is the leader of a church planting team. His primary role is preaching and teaching as part of the New City Fellowship Church plant and development of church leaders and church planting. The area of cooperative church planting has expanded into the Karen hill tribes.

Gary and Phyllis Waldecker serve in Santiago, Chile with Mission to the World. Gary is a pastoral supporter, a fellow worker and a missiological strategist and advisor for our missionaries and national associates throughout Latin America. Gary is simultaneously completing his PhD. YOu can read more about the Waldecker’s on their website.

Melinda Wallace is in southern Ukraine serving with Mission to the World on a church planting team. She works with Ukranian people in two church plants located in Kherson and Tsurupinsk. Her main involvement is in women’s ministry. Learn more about Melinda on her blog.

David and Caroline Webb operate several children’s homes in Roodeport South Africa to provide a long-term home, loving environment and be the hands of Christ to these children. We support Child Haven.

ECHO, Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization is dedicated to fighting world hunger through innovative ideas, information, agricultural training and seeds. They seek to find agricultural solutions for families growing food under difficult conditions. At our request, they are currently working with the school in Nicaragua so students will learn to grow nutritional food.

Grace Place for Children and Families Our mission is to teach literacy, language, and life skills to at-risk children and impoverished families in our communities. Over 500 individuals are enrolled in classes at Grace Place where they are learning the skills to overcome the barriers of poverty and language to reach their goals for school, employment, and life. Grace Place is a faith-based, non-profit neighborhood educational center in Golden Gate city.

Good News Clubs Reaching Out in our Community: Good News Club® is a ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship.® Members of Covenant are trained as teachers to meet with groups of children in Seagate Elementary and Naples Park Elementary schools. Each week the teacher presents an exciting Bible lesson using colorful materials from CEF Press®. This action-packed time also includes songs, Scripture memory, a missions story and review games or other activities focused on the lesson's theme.

Place of Hope, an orphanage in Haiti. Our own Andre’ Forges founded this orphanage in his native country. They care for 42 orphans and are in the midst of building a better facility for the children.

ScholarLeaders International is focused on developing Servant Leaders for the majority world Church by identifying and investing in the advanced theological education of gifted Christian leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. We are specifically focused on helping those men and women who have already been identified as leaders and will return to positions of senior leadership in their countries. Antonio Barro, PhD, is the ScholarLeader of the Year for 2011. He founded South America Theologtical Seminary in Londrina, Brazil.

Bill Harward - InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is an evangelical campus mission serving students and faculty on college and university campuses nationwide. Their vision is to see students and faculty transformed, campuses renewed and world changers developed. Bill serves on the campuses of Edison College in Fort Myers and Naples and Florida Gulf Coast University.

New Horizons is dedicated to reaching the academic needs of at-risk children in our community. They provide over 700 hours of free after school tutoring each week at their Super Kids Clubs empowering children to reach their potential through education and mentoring. They are located in Bonita Springs and North Naples.

Buena Esperanza meets on our campus and ministers to the Hispanic population in our community.

Sanvil Dorsainvil pastors El Shaddai of Grace. The church meets on our campus and ministers to the Haitian population in our community.

Dayspring International brings the Gospel to India through the showing of Dayspring’s all-Indian acted Life of Christ motion picture. We provide support to fully equip a team of national workers to show the film to approximately 48,000 villagers per year.

Mission India assists Indian Christians in planting reproducing churches in a systematic, measurable way. One of their successful methods is through Adult Literacy classes providing illiterates with vital skills to change their lives for the better, and introducing many to the Gospel for the first time. We support one individual Church Planter and a Literacy Project.

Overseas Council partners with seminaries, Bible institutes and other strategic ministries ...to equip biblical leaders to be effective pastors, teachers, evangelists, missionaries and Christian leaders in their own countries.Covenant supports scholarship assistance making a profound difference—one life at a time—for ministry training around the world.

Manfred Kohl is a Special Ambassador with Overseas Council.