Recent Missions Events
Mother's Day Event
In May we joined forces with Kitsap Rescue Mission to help children make Mother's Day cards and wrap gifts. Kitsap Rescue Mission provides reliable, welcoming shelter to vulnerable individuals as well as meals, clothing, hygiene supplies and more.
Meet Josh
We recently welcomed our new Garden Intern, Josh, to lead the garden ministry here at CKPres for the summer. Our garden grows, packs, and delivers produce to Kitsap Community Resources. KCR then distributes to those in need in our community.
Our Mission Partners
Missions at CKPC seeks to be holistic in its approach: local and global; partnering with and empowering individuals on the ground rather than pioneering our own way. Missions is what the people of God do when they leave the church building. As a church we want to bless people who have dedicated their vocational lives to ministry and empower our members to serve.
Aaron & Holly Hicks
Grenada, Spain
The Hicks family are missionaries with Serge and serve in Grenada, Spain. They are working in a church plant that seeks to reach the lost in the city and, in particular, Spain’s large population of Muslim immigrants.
Sarah Le
Whitman College
Sarah is a missionary with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and works on the campus of Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. We are thrilled to support her as she seeks to provide godly counsel and genuine Christian community to young people facing the rigors and temptations of college life.
West Sound Youth for Christ
Our local Youth for Christ chapter serves kids where they are and is able to present the gospel in unique ways to a younger generation. Our chapter in Kitsap County is active not only in the schools, but as chaplains in the county’s juvenile detention center, in tutoring and community development in West Bremerton, and as a state-sponsored foster care placement agency. Some of our members serve as mentors for the kids YFC reaches.
Kitsap Rescue Mission
Founded by Walt Le Couteur in 2009, this ministry is a vital lifeline to the hundreds who find themselves homeless every year here in Kitsap County. They provide meals, shelter, basic hygeine items, and even operate a mobile shower unit. They strive to give folks in need not just material supplies, but the dignity that homelessness can take away ( www.kitsaprescue.org)
This ministry (www.thecoffeeoasis.com) pairs at-risk young people with caring business professionals who help them learn hirable job skills and a strong work ethic so that they can obtain permanent employment and escape the cycle of poverty. Beyond our monthly sponsorship of this ministry, we serve coffee from The Coffee Oasis at our church fellowship hour, and we have a group of individuals from our church that prepare and serve a meal there on a monthly basis.
Berith Presbyterian Church
Oaxaca is a state of 3.5 million people in southern Mexico. 35% of the population speaks a native (not Spanish or English) language. These tribal people are many in number, but are often discriminated against for religious and/or cultural reasons. One of these tribes, the Mixe (Mee-hey) were evangelized Presbyterian and made contact with CKPC many years ago. Over nearly two decades our people, working side by side with the Mixe, built what is today Berith Presbyterian Church in downtown Oaxaca. We continue to train and send short-term mission teams to Oaxaca to support Berith Church and to engage in community development. For more on our philosophy of international short-term missions see this link: www.chenetwork.org.