Community Partners

God has blessed RCC with many resources we seek to steward well. Whether it is relationships, finances, time, or building space, we believe whatever God has given us we are to give to others. One way we seek to steward our resources is through partnerships with other organizations in our community.

Keystone Community Services is a nonprofit working to improve the quality of life of individuals, families, seniors and youth.

One of Keystone's main service areas is food support. They distribute food throughout the year at their central food distribution center and with their Food Mobile. The need for food assistance in 2023 was far higher than 2022. In 2023, Keystone saw 21,000 new enrollees for their food program, while in 2022 that number was 13,700.

Since 2015, they have also hosted Free Farmers Market Events, a community-based initiative to distribute seasonal produce. Their first event held at Roseville Covenant Church was in 2016. The goal of these events is to provide fresh produce, one of Keystone’s most sought-after food shelf items, to local residents throughout the harvest season. Second Harvest Heartland supplies the fruits and vegetables, and with the support of volunteers, Keystone ensures the produce reaches our neighbors in need. During the pandemic, they adapted to a drive-through model, which allows them to distribute food safely, quickly, and conveniently to their participants.

Keystone has hosted Free Farmer’s Market events in the parking lot of Roseville Covenant Church since 2016. In 2023, they hosted six events in the RCC parking lot and distributed over 50,000 pounds of fresh produce to over 2,500 households at those events. At a November 2025 event, they distributed over 16,103 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to 1,390 individuals in 406 households.

Another way we partner with Keystone is by collecting food and paper bags to donate to their food distribution center. We have a shopping cart in the church cafe to drop donations. RCC member, Terri Alston, then transports the donations to Keystone.

“We’re grateful for the volunteers from Roseville Covenant Church who help at each event and ensure they go off without a hitch.”
-Jen Winterfeldt, Director of Development & Community Engagement

PHC continues to focus on providing a safe space for our community. Most of their members are homeless and all have limited incomes; the majority have some sort of mental health or chemical dependency challenge. Out of this group of unhealthy individuals, a healthy community grows. PHC volunteers provide services such as haircuts, hand massages, manicures, bicycle repairs, and more, but the focus of these activities is to build relationships with those we serve. PHC is located just south of downtown Minneapolis on Portland Ave.

Roseville Covenant has partnered with PHC since 2020. At first the partnership was mostly financial donations with some in-kind donations but we continue to get involved in many aspects of PHC's activities including:

  • The youth program has served meals at the PHC building.

  • For the last two years, the youth and kids have also packed 200 gift bags that we distribute on the Thursday before Christmas.

  • Members of the Outreach Committee have visited PHC and chatted with community members to find out what brings them to PHC and what their lives are like.

  • One of the missional communities prepared and served a Saturday breakfast last month, the first time PHC has ever served a weekend meal.

RCC has a special relationship with PHC as Marti Maltby, the organization's Executive Director, is an RCC member.

“Being the Executive Director means I am ultimately responsible for everything that happens at PHC. We are a small enough organization that I really am responsible; I still get to plunge the toilets when they get clogged. My main duties are ensuring that we stay true to our mission and our founder's vision (making everyone feel welcome at PHC), ensuring that we can stay open (raising funds and keeping expenses down), recruiting and retaining volunteers (making sure they know how much I and the community values them), ensuring the PHC is a good neighbor, and giving us direction for the future.”- Marti Maltby

We are grateful to have Marti part of our church family and join him as his vocation seeks to bring the loving kindness of Jesus to all.

Arrive Ministries is a refugee resettlement agency providing essential services and practical assistance to refugees and immigrants to advance self-sufficiency.

Roseville Covenant's relationship with Arrive Ministries goes back many years as the organization was our initial contact to the Robertson family, who are part of our church family. Boyenneh also serves as our church Custodian.

More recently in 2022, we met a need of a refugee family through our connection with Arrive Ministries. A collection of RCC members built a much needed disability ramp for a refugee family living in Anoka so one of their family members could make it outside in their wheelchair. This project was a team effort as someone designed the ramp, someone translated the design to a construction diagram and then putting together all the various skills needed to build it.

In 2023 and again in 2025 we have been connected with Arrive Ministries as a Good Neighbor Team. This means we committed to putting together a team of people from our church to walk alongside a refugee family for one year.

In 2023 our Good Neighbor Team was paired with a family from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here are a team member’s thoughts on coming alongside the family:

"We were able to 'walk in their shoes' and understand how challenging it is to move to a new country; especially when there is a language barrier. We helped with everything from naturalization paperwork to grocery shopping to medical appointments to insurance and school registrations and much more. We tried to mix in purely fun things and were happy to have the church participate in some gym events at the church with our family and their extended family who also arrived in the U.S. I had the unique privilege of supporting the mom of the family throughout her pregnancy with their third child and even got to participate with her and her husband at the birth of their first son."

Compassion Clinics provide multiple services to community members who lack access to basic healthcare. Guests receive holistic care for their body and spirit in one place. Services can be as simple as haircuts and sports physicals, or more in-depth such as dental extractions and more complex medical care.

Every November since 2023, RCC has partnered with other anchor churches to host Compassion Roseville, the second ever Compassion Clinic in Minnesota. Our partner churches are Calvary Church, Community of Nations Church, and Grace Church Roseville.

Each year around 50 RCCers volunteer at the event as medical clinicians, connectors, child caretakers, security, food service, and more. Each year 200-250 guests are served with dental services, physical therapy, vision, and medical services.

“Participating in Compassion Roseville gave us a powerful experience of being The Church. Going out of our individual churches and fully relying on God’s provision and timing to serve our neighbors together as the Body of Christ was a beautiful witness of Christ’s love to both the clinic guests and the volunteers.”

- Karen Johnson, RCC member and Compassion Roseville Executive Leadership Team Member

While it's part of our name, it might not be immediate clear what "Covenant" refers to in Roseville Covenant Church. Along with being a word that reminds us of the covenantal, promise-keeping nature of our God, the word "Covenant" in our name also points to the broader movement we are part of called The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC).

Since our founding in 1956, we have been part of the ECC, which is organized into 12 regions called Conferences. RCC is part of the Northwest Conference (NWC). 

These two entities - the ECC and the NWC - provide our church body with resources, support, and structure as we seek after the same mission of partnering with God in his Kingdom work. 

Two other "Covenant" partnerships we have are with Covenant Pines and Minnehaha Academy. These organizations desire kids and teenagers to know God more and grow in their faith. Many families from our church send their kids to Covenant Pines Bible Camp each summer and a handful of families from our church send their kids to Minnehaha Academy for schooling. 

We are grateful for the various ways we get to partner with these organizations, including financial support and the use of their high-caliber, faith-filled resources. Your pastors have been especially impacted through the relationships and support that come from the ECC and NWC. 

“Roseville Covenant will always have a special place in my heart because you believed in me when I was first exploring a call to ministry there as a youth intern and I am so proud and grateful for your continued partnership!"
- Kara Stromberg, Superintendent, Northwest Conference

Jesus's Great Commission to us before he ascended to heaven was to go and make disciples of all nations. We are grateful for our global missionary partners who we get to support in the 'all nations' aspect of Jesus's call to discipleship.

RCC supports a handful of missionaries through our annual budget that gets distributed through the work of our Global Outreach Team. Learn more about our long-term, ongoing missionary support below. We also provide shorter-term or one-time support for other global mission projects as well, including in Kenya and Liberia.

  • Julio and Katie, Sam and Ben Isaza
    Many in our congregation know the Isaza's well as Katie grew up as part of the RCC family. Katie and Julio serve in Colombia and their work centers around theological education, leadership development, and Christian formation and discipleship. 

    Read the Isaza family blog here

  • Lisandro and Patricia, Samuel Restrepo
    Our support for the Restrepo's began in 2023. The Restrepo's do much of the same work that the Clauson's did in Mexico (see below), primarily with MAEM (Ministering to the Abused and Exploited in Mexico). They have served in Mexico since 2003 and their work is focused on leadership development, Christian formation, spiritual direction, community development, evangelism, and violence prevention and intervention. 

    Learn more about the Restrepo's here. 

    Nils and Erika, Matías, Lucas, and Maya Clauson
    Our church supported the Clauson family as they served for many years in Mexico. In 2023 they moved back to the United States and have transitioned into other ministry roles.

    They were honored for their global service at the Evangelical Covenant Church's annual meeting in 2023. Watch a video of the recognition service here. 

  • Peter and Anna Kim
    The Kims do healthcare and community development work in East Asia. This is a sensitive area of the world to do Christian mission work so we can't share more details online. 

  • Serve Globally, an arm of the Evangelical Covenant Church, is committed to the whole mission of God—extending the whole gospel to the whole world. Through sending of personnel, training people through theological education, equipping local congregations, and cultivating global partnerships they serve globally in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Middle East North Africa. 

    RCC supports the above missionary families through Serve Globally's Global Personnel ministry area.

  • In the month of May, RCC joins thousands of people across the globe for the mission of bringing life-changing clean water to communities around the world. When we walk, run, or push a stroller as we participate in the World Vision Global 6K for Water we are bringing hope and helping to fulfill an essential human need.

    We meet on the lawn of Roseville Covenant Church to begin the race and then stick around after the 6K to celebrate the impact of World Vision and Covenant Kids Congo.

  • The Evangelical Covenant Church of Kenya is over 35 years old with over 50 churches in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda. RCC has supported two phases of its development: training pastors for ministry and self-support, and helping the Noonkipor Church purchase land for a school for Congolese refugee children.

Community Bible Study has been meeting at RCC since 2012. They meet Mondays from 7-8:30pm during the school year. The class has about 80 participants.

Five different 'Core Groups' meet at RCC: Adult Men, Adult Women, Adult Co-Ed, Agape (adults with intellectual disabilities), and NextGen (youth).

In the past the group has studied Ephesians, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, and Matthew.

"We really, really appreciate the overwhelming generosity of RCC for opening your church to us for these many years - you welcome us with open arms! We have an absolutely wonderful partnership with RCC! At various times for various functions we use nearly every space and aspect of the church, always doing our best to leave the church the same as or better than we found it."
-Dee Levin, CBS liasion to RCC and Co-Ed Group Core Leader

Iglesia Ebenezer Spirit of Life is a Christian church with the purpose of expanding and preaching the word of God to every living soul as taught by Jesus in Matthew 28:19 (Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.)

Ebenezer uses RCC's building three times a week. Sundays they have their main service at 2pm. Tuesdays they have an evening service at 7pm. And, on Saturdays they have morning prayer at 5am.

The last Sunday of every month they gather for a big meal and fellowship time together. They also host special events at RCC throughout the year, including Bible studies, marriage workshops, and even, recently, a wedding.

Ebenezer has been meeting at RCC since 2012.

"Our partnership with RCC has been very united. We are always able to help each other out in our needs and grow our understandings. We are so grateful for that. It's a good partnership because we both have the same purpose of bringing people to Christ and spreading the word of the Lord to others."
-Erika Gomez, Ebenezer Ministry Team Member

Eagle's Wings Co-op is a group of families that love the Lord and want the opportunity to send their children to enrichment classes that will add to their homeschooling experience.

This is a time for their children to learn teamwork through gym, the love of creation through science and being creative through art.

During the classroom time for the kids, the moms gather to grow in their relationship with God, fellowship with other homeschooling moms, and receive encouragement for their momentous duties as mothers. 

Eagle's Wings meets two Tuesday afternoons a month during the school year. They have been meeting at RCC since 2023.

"It has been such a blessing to be welcomed into such a wonderful facility that perfectly meets our group's needs. We are so grateful for the kindness of RCC and the staff for supporting our group and opening their doors to us."
-Mandy Peterson, Eagle's Wings Leadership Team Member

Envision Twin Cities exists to create partnerships and environments that transform and empower refugees and other immigrants.

The Envision Basketball Outreach's purpose is to create a safe environment for Somali teen and young adult men to find community through basketball. Our goals are to create long lasting relationships that go beyond the court, all while living out the Gospel and teaching them what Jesus teaches through our words and actions.

Their refugee basketball program practices in our church gym every Thursday evening and participates in the church basketball league that uses our gym every Saturday from December through March. They have been using our gym since 2016.

"Our partnership with RCC has given us peace of mind. It’s hard to describe how life-giving it is to know we have a space to come that is well equipped and consistent for the guys. Consistency is our greatest ally in forming relationships that last."
-Jeremy Garland, Director of Envision Basketball Outreach