Join Salem friends this summer on various short-term mission opportunities!
- Do construction and maintenance at Alaska Christian College
(June 7-14) - Serve as support staff at Joni and Friends family retreats
(June 15-20 and/or August 15-20) - Support Living Hope Ministries on Saturday workdays
Check out the video below to learn more!
For the 2025 short-term mission trips application click HERE. Click HERE to register!
Serving in Christ’s Name Near and Far
Our Missions and Outreach Ministry Team exist to empower and deploy Salem’s church family beyond our doors to share the love of Jesus through meaningful service and mission initiatives. We also partner with local and international missionaries and organizations in shared efforts to make and grow disciples of Jesus Christ. You can check out a video of our Salem Supported Missions HERE.
We are excited to connect Salem folks to meaningful service within the neighborhood (here), throughout the region (near) and across the country and broader world (far). At Salem, we define outreach as any opportunity that our church community has to engage in ministry beyond our doors in both one-time and ongoing settings. These efforts include serving at local partner church and community organizations, equipping and sending short-term missions teams to a variety of local communities and around the world. We are passionate about sharing the love of Christ in tangible ways and we pray that all people would come to know him as we work together with people locally and around the world to seek and save the lost.
Praying for our Missionary Partners
As the church, one of the ways we participate in mission is through intercession. The Serve Globally Prayer Calendar can be used as a convenient daily prayer guide to pray for God’s work around the world and specifically for Covenant missionaries, ministry partners, and the countries in which they serve. Each day includes a Covenant missionary and a partner country with information on how they are bearing witness to the Good News in their context and how you can pray for them!
A few hard copies are available on the ledge by the Missions bulletin board. You can also subscribe for a daily email reminder at covchurch.org/prayer-calendar.
Pastor Terri Russell
Community Engagement Pastor
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Short-term Missions
While Salem has a strong history of sending and supporting full-time missionaries throughout the world, our missions ministry does not end there. We connect, equip, and send people to short-term mission opportunities, partnering with a varitey of missional churches and organizations locally, regionally, and globally. These trips involve hands-on service, along with providing prayer and financial support to those we serve.
The 2025 missions trip application can be found HERE.
Register for our 2025 missions trips HERE.
Mission Updates
A team from Salem taught 95 students English and the love of Jesus this July in the Czech Republic! The camp featured Bible reading and praise and worship every night with testimonials and a message. Read about the incredible mission trip to the Czech Republic HERE.
Local Missions
In Mark 3, Jesus gathers his disciples together to be with him and learn from him and then sends them out to serve and share the Good News with the community around them. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus gives the Great Commission to his disciples to, “Go and make disciples of all nations.” In following the missional modeling and directive of Jesus, we encourage Salem members and attenders to do the same – gather regularly at Salem with the body of believers to be equipped and empowered to GO into the world to share the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
Listed below are many of Salem’s ministry partners and regular service commitments. Take a look and see where God might be leading you to put your time, treasure, and talents to work alongside others members of the Salem Community. Contact Community Engagement Pastor Terri Russell with any questions.
Loaves & Fishes
Each month, Salem Covenant Church partners with Loaves & Fishes to prepare and serve meals to those experiencing food insecurity. Click HERE to view a short video featuring Salem volunteers.
Manna Market
Manna Market is a food pantry housed at Fridley Covenant Church. Every Tuesday, volunteers work around the clock to unload delivery trucks full of food, sort and shelve it for low income residents of Fridley, Columbia Heights, and Spring Lake Park.
Community Support Center (CSC)
Serving the communities of New Brighton, Mounds View, North Oaks, Shoreview, and Arden Hills, CSC works with residents in need to prevent homelessness, solve financial crises, and provide long-term relationships. Salem Covenant Church supports the CSC as a founding member, serving on their board, and helping to facilitate the annual Walk-A-Mile fundraiser.