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Mission
& Outreach Ministries
We believe mission and outreach are the inevitable
result of a church taking seriously its mandate to compassionately
serve others and be an agent of cultural change. OECC’s ministries
of compassion, mercy and justice are diverse.
LOCAL OUTREACH:
Interfaith Hospitality
Network:
Every 13 weeks our facility is open to those in Johnson County needing
transitional housing. For seven days, three churches cooperate to
staff and provide beds, food, recreation, and a “home-like”
environment for families temporarily without a home. Efforts are
coordinated by the local offices of the Interfaith Hospitality Network,
Inc. Visit them on-line at www.jocoihn.org
Salvation Army Food
Pantry:
Food is collected year-around for distribution through the Olathe
corps of the Salvation Army.
Holiday Bell Ringing:
Members and friends of the church participate annually in efforts
to raise funds throughout our community for the Salvation Army’s
“Red Kettle” fundraiser. 
A local view of
our Lord's creation near Olathe during a Children and Youth OECC
church sponsored outing.
INTERNATIONAL:
 Mission
Trips:
In the summer of 2006 a mission team traveled to Alaska to aid in
a construction project at Alaska Bible College. In the summer of
2008 a team will travel to Ecuador for a work project associated
with a Covenant sponsored radio station.
Russian Ministry:
Our church supports Covenant Project Missionaries, Leonid and Leanna
Regheta, who live in Russia working in support of evangelical ministry
in that country. Visit them on-line at www.freewebs.com/regheta
West Africa:
OECC has sons and daughters serving in this region of the world.
Recently, an OECC member traveled to Senegal as a speaker at a retreat
for English-speaking women serving in ministry throughout Africa.
 Covenant
World Relief:
The familiar “Red Soup Can” appears in late fall, inviting
families to participate in supporting the Covenant’s provision
of material aid to crisis points all over the globe.
Operation Christmas Child:
Shoe boxes are decorated, stuffed with school supplies and simple
toys and delivered to the church during November. They are distributed
to children in need around the world, in cooperation with the ministry
of Samaritan’s Purse.
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