Serve Around
The World
Explore the different ways you can join Covenant in
serving around the world.
International Partners
Cuba
Covenant’s Cuba ministry partnership is building long-term relationships with our Cuban brothers and sisters in Christ, particularly with the Presbyterian Church in the Havana barrio known as Luyanó.
Since 1994, members of both churches have bonded through Bible study, fellowship and service as we encourage our communities to follow Jesus wherever we live, work and play.
Covenant members travel to Cuba to participate in special events like church anniversaries and Vacation Bible School. We also seek volunteers to travel to Cuba, to contribute supplies such as over-the-counter medicines and baby goods and to pray for those traveling. Watch this video to learn more about our sister church in Luyanó.
For more information, contact Jack Kern, Cuba Ministry Team Leader
Belize Partnership
Covenant has been in partnership in Belize since 2014. Our partner organization, The Word at Work, connects churches in Belize to churches in the United States, striving to create mutually beneficial relationships.
In 2025 we launched our new adult focused spring trip and are excited to be invited back to serve alongside and spend time with our sister church. We will be traveling March 20-25, 2026. Our sister church, First Stone Bible Church, is located just outside Belize City and is thriving. Our time with them is spent in joining along in their day to day ministry in the neighborhood and city.
We are also excited to be invited to partner again at the Belize Central Prison. Last year a small team led a Trauma Healing Workshop for inmates. This powerful experience has created an opportunity for our team to continue this work. We look forward to partnering again at the prison.
Learn more about Covenant’s Belize Partnership by contacting Rusty Burnett.
Apply for our Spring 2026 Trip
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global organization seeking to end slavery around the world. It partners with local authorities at 33 program offices in 18 countries to combat slavery, violence against women and children and police abuse of power against people who are poor.
Covenant has a partnership with the IJM field office in Ghana and seeks to pray and offer support for the team working tirelessly there to advocate for those enslaved. A small team from Covenant was able to visit in 2025 and learn about the incredible work taking place in Ghana. We are grateful to continue to partner with IJM and grow our partnership in Ghana.
Learn more about Covenant’s IJM partnership by contacting Kelly Dwyer or Doug Kilday
International Missionaries
Arthur & Liezl Pienaar
Overland Missions
Covenant began supporting Arthur and Liezl Pienaar, senior staff with Overland Missions in Zambia for 15 years, in 2015. Overland Missions, based in Florida, seeks to bring the Gospel to unreached peoples and to support the development of local churches.
One of Arthur’s focuses is leadership training and development of indigenous church leaders. He also serves on the Chaplaincy Team, which provides a chaplain for each of the individual chiefs, traditional leaders in Africa who play important roles in governing their communities and resolving conflicts.
Liezl pioneered the Overland Mission children’s program, Kids on Fire, which seeks to provide children with the full message of the Gospel, equip them for real ministry, and create opportunities for them to encounter the presence of God regularly. Hundreds of children participate in this program. In 2023, the Mission Committee gave a gift for Kids on Fire to construct a porch to provide the children with shade from the heat and cover during the rainy season.
Arthur and Liezl also serve on the Pastoral Care Team for Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Zanzibar, and the U.S. and as faculty for Overland Missions’ advanced missions training for international and indigenous students.
Covenant mission teams worked with Arthur and Liezl in Zambia for several years, conducting medical clinics and reaching out to local villages to create churches there. Watch this video about the ministry.
Covenant mission teams worked with Arthur and Liezl in Zambia for several years, conducting medical clinics and reaching out to local villages to create churches in the village. For more information, contact Liezl Pienaar.
Pam & Nico Daams
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Nico and Pam Daams have worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1977. Wycliffe believes that having the Bible in a language that speaks to a person’s heart allows God’s Church to grow on a secure foundation. Nico and Pam have focused on Bible translation in small Polynesian languages across the Pacific, training and working closely with Pacific Island colleagues. For the past five years they have been based in Darwin, in the far north of Australia. While continuing work in Polynesian language projects, Nico also provided leadership for colleagues working in aboriginal languages. Pam did Trauma Healing groups and led a weekly Bible Study at the women’s prison.
With the recent completion of two New Testaments, Pam and Nico are now preparing for a new phase of life. They will be visiting family and supporters in Europe and the US over the coming months. They also hope to spend time on some writing projects. Nico plans to stay involved remotely with several Polynesian translators working on the Old Testament in their languages.
The Daams’ long-standing connection with Covenant began in 1996 through Covenant member Betty Hall, who first met Pam and Nico at First Presbyterian Church in Houston back in 1974. Pam and Nico have visited our church many times, giving presentations on their work to the youth during Sunday school classes and Wednesday night programming. They send regular updates on their work and prayer requests.
Contact Pam or Nico Daams to learn more about their work with Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Danny & Kristen Franklin
Launch Global
Launch Global exists to mobilize churches to develop laborers and leaders who multiply healthy churches among unreached people groups.
Danny and Kristen live and work in Thailand, where the Christian population is less than one percent. Danny (alongside his seven other teammates) helps train and equip Thai Christians toward the Thai church’s vision of seeing a church in every village by 2030. That’s 84,646 villages. They do this through strategic partnerships with local apostolic leaders and their respective church networks, coaching them toward healthy multiplication. Since Danny and Kristen moved to Thailand in 2020, the Launch Global Thai partners have seen over 50 churches planted, over 1,000 professions of faith, and over 300 baptisms.
Their two kids, Elise (9) and Isaiah (6), both love Thailand and are thriving in their bilingual school.
Contact Danny and Kristen Franklin to learn more about their work with Launch Global.
Emily and Noel Coppedge
Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)
Noel and Emily Coppedge serve the international student population at the University of Texas at Austin as part of Reformed University Fellowship International (RUF-I). Their mission is to welcome international students and their families with weekly dinners and lunches, Texas sightseeing trips, and holiday celebrations. Noel and Emily explore the Bible with these students in weekly Bible studies. Their hope is to equip those who come to know God to continue growing closer to Him and learn how to share their faith with others, even after they leave campus.
Noel and Emily’s connection to Covenant is through Emily and her family’s long history as a part of this community. Emily was involved in Covenant’s choir and Covenant’s youth ministry. She also taught children’s choir while she was in college. Please pray for God’s many blessings on their students and this ministry.
Contact Noel Coppedge to learn more about their work with RUF.