Global Missions

Thornapple supports over 30 individual missionaries who serve around the globe. In addition we support various missions organizations and sponsor adult short term mission trips.

In recent years we have sent small groups of adults on short term missions trips to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Mexico.  And we are open to sending more as God leads our people to serve around the world.  

The names of our missionaries are not put on our website because for some, being in the public domain could be dangerous. We have a notebook at our Welcome Center with information on the missionaries that we support. It includes copies of their latest letters as well. Use it to familiarize yourself with our missionaries and help yourself to copies of their letters.

If you have questions about the World Missions Ministry at Thornapple, or if you would like to serve on the ministry team or as part of a short term missions group, please contact Patty Dekker at pdekker@thornapple.org or Ruth Wolf at rmoxon@altelco.net.

Northside Community Sister Church: In September 2011 a team from Thornapple went to Harare, Zimbabwe to visit Northside Community Church to build relationships and see how God might be calling us to work together.  For more on the trip, click here. 

How you can help Global Missions:  The Global Missions Ministry Team has outlined several areas where you can get involved in reaching out to our world.  To read all about it, click here.

Covenant World Missions: CWM is an important ministry of our denomination as well.  To go to our denominations's CWM home page, click here.  Friends of World Missions (FOWM) is our denominations effort to enable people from around the Covenant to be aware of and to support Covenant missions work.  To go to the FOWM homepage, click here.

For information on Covenant World Relief, click here.