Mission Partnerships
Our priority is to engage our congregation in loving outreach to our neighbors, contribute funds to the ministries with which our congregation members are most involved and support, and to individual missionaries who are or have been a part of our congregation (involvement, importance, and impact). 10% of CPC tithes are dedicated to our Missions & Outreach.
~ Local and Regional Partnerships ~
Jeff Jenkins
Geoff Mumley
Mount Baker Presbyterian Church
Kevin & Danielle Riley
Natalie Finkbonner
Cordata Church also suports the following local missional programs:
- Little Library Books at CPC – “Take a Book – Share a Book”
- Financial Peace University – financial coaching at CPC
- Interfaith Coalition Winter Clothing Drive
- Samaritan Purse’s Operation Christmas Child – global gift boxes
- Fun in the Sun at CPC
- Cordata Neighborhood Block Party with Meridian Schools
- Fall Festival at CPC
- Camperships for Foster Children through Skookum Kids
- Cordata Neighborhood Ice Cream Social
- Meridian High School Student Sharing Project
- The Firs Christian Campground and Conference Center
- Annual Whitworth University scholarship for an area student
- CPC host for Men’s and Women’s Bible Study Fellowship
- Thanksgiving Dinner Boxes in partnership with Mosaic Church
~ International Partnerships ~
Guatemala Mission Trip 2026
Did you know that you can travel and help someone else at the same time? There is a way to do both!
Our church has supported the Hope of the Pokomchi in Guatemala for many years and have sent teams to do mission work in their villages. These teams have returned with stories of the impact on their lives by going there, plus the impact their work made on the daily lives of the Pokomchi people. Team members have built water cisterns, made latrines, built stoves and completed other projects which are improvements to daily existence in many remote mountain villages. Interested or just want to know more? Check out the article in the February Beacon for more information.
Guatemala Mission Team
February 28 – March 10, 2023
The Guatemala Mission Team included Nina and Gary Buma, Sebastian and Jacqueline Durbin, Jayme Fergoda, John and Brenda Risser, Kaela and Ella Ruble, Eric Weissenborn, and Wayne Youngquist. They served the Pokomchi people, a marginalized people group of Mayan descent who primarily work as subsistence farmers. The villagers are impacted by malnutrition, maternal and infant mortality, limited healthcare, and limited education. They joined a non-profit Christian ministry, Hope of the Pokomchi, by sharing Christ’s love, living and working alongside the people, engaging in cultural activities, playing with the children, praying for those in need, and constructing rainwater catchment cisterns for local villagers.
The slideshow to the left shows the highlights of the
2023 Guatemala Mission team’s journey.
Youth With A Mission
Bryan, Thandi, Busie, & Elisha Whitlock
Read the latest newsletter from the Whitlock family.
Our mission is to provide a place of restoration in hosting Kingdom workers in beautiful, diverse Cape Town while engaging locally with youth in sports discipleship and other opportunities. We hope to provide coaching jobs long-term with a character-based soccer program that also partners with other nations, ultimately seeking to send missionaries to unreached areas.
Resourcing Christian Education
Karen Eirckson
Read Karen’s latest newsletter.
Stephanie and Mike Kuhn
Mike and Stephanie Kuhn lived for a total of twenty-eight years in countries around the Mediterranean—France, Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon. They have been involved in discipleship and leadership development in Muslim majority areas. They speak Arabic and French.
Mike is the director of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church’s ITEN—the International Theological Education Network. ITEN partners with indigenous movements to develop leaders for new churches and church-planting movements among people groups with little access to the gospel or where it is misunderstood.
Stephanie works with ITEN as an educational consultant. Through ongoing assessment, she encourages ITEN to adopt best practices in cross-cultural education. She also does administrative and team-building work with ITEN.
The Kuhn’s currently reside in Bellingham. They have three married daughters and seven grandkids who also live in the Pacific Northwest.
To learn more about Mike and
his ministry, click here.
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