Global Impact
Since Jesus instructed us to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19), Riverside is dedicated to sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world.
Through our Global Missions Ministry, Riverside has ongoing partnerships with organizations and missionaries working near and far.
In the summer of 2014, Riverside began a long term partnership with Buen Pastor de Cangahua Iglesia del Pacto Evangélico (right) and Covenant Merge Ministries in Cangahua, Ecuador. We have now returned to Ecuador each summer since.
In addition, Riverside funds mission endeavors all over the world through the Evangelical Covenant Church’s World Mission Department and partnerships we have with many other missionaries and missionary sending organizations.
Missionaries and church plants Riverside financially partners with:
(some names are not provided for the protection of missionaries serving in countries hostile to Christianity)
Tom and Ashley Carpenter
We believe America’s 21 million college students are a missions field in our own back yard. And we believe God has sent us to Purdue University to reach, establish and equip college students with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Labor Day weekend 2015 we moved to West Lafayette, IN, to join the ministry and staff with The Navigators. We hope God uses The Navigators at Purdue University to help multiply laborers who have heart, skill, and vision for administering the gospel to lost and hurting souls. We pray that God would use us at Purdue to train up laborers and mobilize the gospel to the campus, community, state, and the ends of the world. We seek to reach over 8,000 international students, 7,000 students in the fraternity and sorority system, and the other 28,000 students at Purdue.
Caleb and Jenny Hoover
The Hoovers were both born and raised in the Chicago suburbs and met as college freshmen at Illinois State University. They both immediately became involved with Campus Crusade for Christ as students. Even though they were both Christians when they entered college, Cru was the first place where they saw people their own age vibrantly experiencing Christ daily and walking with Him. They grew in their passion to share the gospel with others, and soon realized that God was calling them to share Christ with college students on staff with Cru. They have been serving at Purdue University for the last several years and love seeing God work among the college students here.
Mark Kirgiss
Young Life, Greater Lafayette, Indiana
Mark Kirgiss has served on Young Life staff for over 20 years. He has served as the Area Director for Greater Lafayette Young Life & WyldLife since August of 2004. He and his wife Crystal, have three sons – Tyler, Tory and Tate.
Mark and Crystal are members of Riverside.
Joel and Kim Delp
Quito, Ecuador Missionaries (Evangelical Covenant Church)
We were married in May 2002 and have known for years now that we wanted to be missionaries – Kim since she was 9 years old and Joel since college. God has brought our lives together to serve Him in any way we could. He blessed us with Simeon in March 2010. The Holy Spirit has led us to Ecuador, South America with the hope of partnering with the Covenant National Church in developing ministries to at risk children and through medicine. This vision has formalized in an invitation from the National Church to start new ministries of homes for at risk children and a medical clinic. This blog gives you a look into our lives and dreams. We know that we are simple people and often feel like Moses making excuses why others would be better equipped for His purpose. However, we cling to the promises that God has given us and we know that if God has called us, He will also equip us.
Ministry Info: https://www.santiagopartnership.org/
Email: [email protected]
S and T
This couple is serving in a country in Central Asia where it is dangerous to share the Gospel.
Due to the sensitive nature of their work, we are not able to share their information on the web.
If you would like more information about their work, please contact our Global Missions leader at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for your understanding as we help to keep this couple safe.
Mark and Linda Ridenour
CLC Ministries International, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Mark and Linda work for CLC Ministries, International out of Fort Washington, PA, laboring to distribute Christian literature to some of the remotest corners of the world in over 50 countries.
The Ridenours were a part of Riverside for several years before becoming missionaries.
J and K
This couple is living in the US serving in a community from East Asia where it is difficult to share the Gospel.
Due to the sensitive nature of their work, we are not able to share their information on the web.
If you would like more information about their work, please contact our Global Missions leader at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for your understanding as we help to keep this couple safe.
B and A
This couple is serving in a country in East Asia where it is dangerous to share the Gospel.
Due to the sensitive nature of their work, we are not able to share their information on the web.
If you would like more information about their work, please contact our Global Missions leader at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for your understanding as we help to keep this couple safe.
The W Family
This family is a part of Team Expansion and living in the USA, but often travels to foreign countries where it is dangerous to share the Gospel.
Due to the sensitive nature of their work, we are not able to share their information on the web.
Their ministry focuses on transforming communities among the unreached by planting biblical churches. They work in areas of the world where the Gospel is not yet known, making disciples that make disciples and launching simple, reproducible churches. In addition to globally mobilizing workers for the Great Commission, their field ministry focuses on India, Bangladesh and the Middle East. They are particularly excited about some new doors for ministry that God is opening in the Muslim world.
If you would like more information about their work, please contact our Global Missions leader at the bottom of the page.
Alex and Amanda Velasco
In 1998 Alex been volunteering and serving with Merge. He says, “They accepted me for who I was, with love and not judgment.” As a full-time staff member, he is in charge of facilitating short term mission trips in many areas of Mexico, Argentina, and Spain. Alex’s job is to have an ongoing relationship with people in the ministries where Merge takes groups, and with those in future host locations.
Alex uses his expertise to help churches prepare and implement effective and appropriate partnerships worldwide.
Alex has helped coordinate and leads Riverside’s long-term partnership with Buen Pastor de Cangahua Iglesia del Pacto Evangélico in Cangahua, Ecuador.
Christina Sutton
If you would like to directly support here work you can here.