“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
– Matthew 28:19–20
Who We Are
Who we are
Welcome to “the Kirk”
The word “kirk” means Church (commonly used in Scotland) and derives from the koine Greek kyriakon (dōma).
Christ Covenant Church (“the Kirk”) is a member church of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) in the Boniface Presbytery. We gather for Covenant Renewal Worship every Lord’s Day at 3:30 PM, with a fellowship meal to follow.
TOTUS CHRISTUS, PRO TOTA VITA
“All of Christ, for all of life, for all of Selkirk & the Interlake”
Our mission
Our Mission
The work of the Church is the missio Dei (Mission of God), namely, God’s work of drawing worshippers to Himself through the work of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit working in and through His Church (Isaiah 2 cf. John 6:44).
To this end, our mission is to glorify God through the fulfillment of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20).
Our vision
Our Vision
Our vision may be summed up by our motto, “all of Christ for all of life” (TOTUS CHRISTUS, PRO TOTA VITA).
By all of Christ, we mean all of Christ; by all of life, we mean all of life.
Accordingly, our vision is to see a community of believers live their lives in accord with our motto and to disciple them to that end.
Our ecclesiastical vision
Worship, Witness, and Nurture
To see the leaven of the gospel permeate our community by faithfully undertaking the tasks of the Church, which are worship, witness, and nurture.
Worship
The Church is responsible for leading the saints in biblical, Christ-centred, edifying worship. In a narrow sense, the Church properly leads the people of God in public and corporate worship through the preaching of the whole counsel of God according to His Word, the right administration of the sacraments, and the proper exercise of church discipline. More broadly, the Church teaches the people of God with the authority of God, by word and deed, how to live all of life under the Lordship of Christ in worshipful obedience as living sacrifices thereunto (Romans 12:1–2).
Witness
As ambassadors of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Church has been tasked with heralding the evangel–the good news of God’s kingdom rule through Christ. Accordingly, the Church is to be a witness to the watching world of the righteous reign of the true King of Kings and Lord of Lords by prophetically proclaiming Christ’s authority over all of life that they may call all men and nations to repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus and submission to Him.
Nurture
The Church is the primary institution of discipleship and mercy. Our primary goal is to train the saints of God to live all of life for all of Christ. Through the proper use of the means of grace, the Church helps nurture believers to progressively grow in Christ-like maturity, fostering the personal and communal piety of the saints of God. Furthermore, through its various mercy ministries, the Church helps care for the well-being (physical and spiritual) of those in the community, within and without the Church.
Our communion
Part of the CREC
Christ Covenant Church is a member church of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) in the Boniface Presbytery. The CREC was established in 1998.
Thoroughly Trinitarian, Historically Reformed, Warmly Evangelical
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