Ministries

Sunday mornings at 9:15am, bring your Bibles and join us for an exciting and participatory study and exchange of ideas. Scripture comes to life as we study and seek to apply it in our daily lives.

“Let the little children come unto me.” Jesus loves them and so do we!! Sunday school is available for ages 3-7 during the second half of our church service. We will accommodate other ages as needed.

Do You seek a deeper walk with the Lord? Join us on Wednesday evenings at Pastor Brian and Liz’s home as we dig deeper in God’s word through “The Handbook of Christian Maturity” by Bill Bright. This is a wonderful adventure of discovery in God’s word.

The JOY GROUP is a group of women who come together weekly on Mondays at 10:AM.

We laugh, we share, we pray and experience many “Joy Pops.”

We study a Book of the Bible or a Christian book that draws us to Jesus and to more Joy!

Come and join us!

A fellowship of brothers in Christ who meet for coffee, devotions, and encouragement to build each other up in their faith. They also serve our community by doing projects for people in need.

For more information, please contact Chuck Nicholas at 218-780-4413.

Living in a broken world, we all deal with life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits. No one has the ability to face hurts on their own nor should they attempt to. Celebrate Recovery is a beautiful community of individuals that courageously enter this safe and beautiful space to get honest about our pain and the negative ways we may see ourselves, God and others. In this process, we come to accept that some of the habits we have developed to escape our pain have caused destruction in our life and in the lives of those close to us.

Celebrate Recovery is a biblically balanced approach to help bring sustainable recovery and healing to us. It guides us toward new healthy truths and life-giving habits as we repair our broken relationships. Join more than 7 million hurting people across the globe who now walk in freedom through the power of Jesus Christ as we walk through the 8 principles of Celebrate Recovery based on the Beatitudes in Matthew 5.

In partnership with the First Baptist Church in Cook, meetings are held every Thursday at First Baptist Church – 210 1st Ave NE, Cook, MN

• Meal @ 5:30 pm
• Meeting @ 6:00 pm

Childcare available

Contact Pastor Brian for more information at 331-442-9463 or email at: pastorbrian64@gmail.com.

https://celebraterecovery.com/

Cook Covenant Church historically provides scholarships to children and teens from our church families to attend camp. Since 1940, Covenant Park has been serving youth, families, and church groups on Park Lake in Mahtowa, MN. Offering summer youth camps, retreats, and rental facilities, the Covenant Park experience provides opportunities for people to encounter Christ, and grow in their relationship with Him.

As an extension of the Evangelical Covenant Church, this camp reflects the beliefs and affirmations held by the covenant denomination.

Covenant Park

Our women have come away spiritually refreshed after attending Trout Lake’s Fall Refresh Women’s Retreat which takes place each September. We are blessed to join other women in fellowship from surrounding Cook area churches.

Trout Lake Camps mission: To engage children, youth and adults with the life changing message of Jesus Christ by creating unique camp communities and learning experiences in which our words, our service and our personal relationships capture and communicate the essence of the gospel.

Trout Lake Camp is associated with Converge North Central. Since 1960 they have been a member of the Christian Camp and Conference Association.

https://troutlakecamps.org/

“Let the children come to Me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.”
Mark 10:14, ESV

The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to children in need around the world. Through this project, Samaritan’s Purse partners with the local church worldwide to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and make disciples of the nations.

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Renee Nicholas
National Director, Graduate Healthcare Ministries

Renee has been married to Trevor Nicholas (originally from Cook, MN) since 2014 and they live with their two boys, Ethan and Everett in Chicago.

About Renee:

MA, RN, has served in campus ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for 22 years. She has worked as an RN in an intensive care unit in a Native American community and as a clinic nurse at a city health center in Chicago. Renee has a master’s degree in Christian Ministry and a certificate in Spiritual Direction, both from North Park Theological Seminary. She has enjoyed bringing together her two areas of calling – healthcare and campus ministry – as she serves in her current role as Director of Graduate Healthcare Ministries with InterVarsity. Renee partners with Campus Staff Ministers around the country to plant and grow Christian communities of healthcare students and faculty. Students and faculty have opportunities to encounter Jesus and discover how to follow him with their whole lives.

My Calling:

I was a 22 yr old nursing student when I attended Urbana in 2000.

Traveling in a church van loaded up with Hope College students, we were eager to learn about God’s global mission and seeking to find our place in it. We were moved by testimonies of Christians serving God around the world. It was at Urbana that I sensed God inviting me to live and work in a Native American community in NM after I graduated. I also sensed God telling me that he did not call me into nursing for my glory, but for his glory. This stuck with me and 2 years later when I was invited to join InterVarsity staff to work with nursing students, I remembered these words. I moved to Chicago to serve nursing students at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Join me in praying that students today would attend Urbana 25 Dec 28-31) and answer God’s call to join his global mission – close to home or around the world

InterVarsity’s Graduate Healthcare Ministries equips today’s healthcare students and faculty to follow Jesus together while participating in God’s healing work in the world. 

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Missionary Julius Hagan was born and raised in Ghana and came to know Jesus just before he entered college. From there, his entire world changed.

Julius recognized the powerful hope found in Jesus Christ, and he became grieved to learn that so many villages were without a single church. Julius began to ready himself to tell the Gospel to these unreached communities around him. It wasn’t long before he received his first opportunity while visiting a college friend on break.

Julius prayed for a sick woman in the village he was visiting, and when that man was healed, the whole town wanted to know-how, and Julius told them. From one church plant, fourteen other churches were birthed, and Julius became impassioned to continue what Paul states in Romans 15:20,

The Lord opened doors for Julius to receive the Billy Graham Scholarship at Wheaton College, where he finished his Masters in Evangelism and Leadership.

Through God’s grace in scripture and discipleship, Julius learned that nothing could prevent us from being powerful disciple makers for the King of Kings. With the guidance of God, Julius headed the Lord’s call and ventured from there into greater Europe, currently, in Belgium, where he and his lovely bride “accidentally” planted a church that serves the Flemish, Ukrainian and people from about 6 other Nationalities.

Julius has a strong passion for proactive disciple making and enjoys connecting with college students. Julius believes, “that true Christlike transformation happens when one life robs upon another.” Thus, their ministry continues to seek ways to connect with and contribute their part in reaching Europe with the Gospel of Jesus as they depend on God’s grace to make Christlike Disciples who make Disciples who like Jesus in Europe.

As someone who grew up in a majority Muslim neighborhood in Africa, Julius has a big heart for reaching Muslims in Europe with the Grace and Love of Jesus. An area he and his team are currently exploring.

https://www.ccwm.org/