Who are we?

Send Cola is a collaboration of local churches across the greater Columbia area that exists to work together to encourage churches to make disciples of all nations, equip believers for this task, and send out healthy cross-cultural workers to proclaim the gospel and make disciples of Jesus among the unreached in joyful obedience to the Great Commission.

Send Cola churches are aligned together under the Lausanne Covenant.

Connect as aChurch or Individual

Opportunities

God has made prayer foundational to His mission. Send Cola will foster and promote intentional times to come together and pray for the unreached as well as our brothers and sisters globally. We will prioritize prayer for the Lord to raise up and send workers to the nations. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Luke 10:2

Send Cola prayer opportunities include weekly prayer every Tuesday in the conference room of the Murphy and Grantland law office (4406B Forest Dr., Columbia, SC) from 7:00-7:45AM. Additionally, Citywide Prayer for the Nations will be planned and promoted by Send Cola twice a year. Together, we express our dependency upon God to redeem the lost. We unite as the body of Christ in worshipful expectation that He will have praise from every nation.

The Send Cola Missions Cohort is a community of aspiring goers coming together from various local churches to be encouraged, equipped, mentored, and then sent to the unreached with the good news of Jesus.

This is a 6-month equipping community with various cross-cultural voices, mentorship from experienced missionaries, and engagement in cross-cultural ministry here in the greater Columbia area.

The cohort will meet weekly as a community with a consistent Send Cola facilitative team and special guests invited in to address topics of focus. This will be a time of fellowship and discussion oriented around specific equipping topics such as spiritual formation in the gospel, team dynamics, health & resiliency, discipleship & church planting, and intercultural skills.

As a network of local churches partnering together, Send Cola will curate and share missions resources for encouraging the great commission, equipping missionaries, sending global workers, and caring for those sent.

Resources compiled and vetted by Send Cola include great commission resources for families, training in cross-cultural ministry, partnering agencies, local cross-cultural engagement opportunities, global engagement opportunities, and missionary care.

Great commission engagement is for every follower of Jesus. The annual Send Cola Missions Conference will bring together the greater Columbia area to unite in God's mission to make disciples of all nations. This will be a time of hearing God’s heart for the nations unfolded throughout the redemptive storyline of Scripture. Each participant, no matter age or stage, will be encouraged as a follower of Jesus to find their place in the mission of God.

The SendCola Missions Conference will be April 4-5th, 2025 at Columbia International University. Registration coming soon!

Partnering Churches

SEND COLA Core Values

The Gospel - We exist for the purpose of sharing the good news of salvation through Jesus with all people groups on earth. All that we do in Columbia and around the world will be for the explicit purpose of gospel proclamation in word and deed.

Prayer - We acknowledge our dependence upon God and declare our confidence that he will accomplish his redemptive work among all people groups (Rev 7:9-10). We will dedicate ourselves to praying fervently that God would reach the nations through us.

Unreached People Groups - We recognize the biblical priority of those who have never yet heard the gospel (Rom 15:20-21) in completing the Great Commission. Our sending efforts will focus entirely on expanding the border of gospel access to unreached and Bibleless people groups.

Multiplying Disciples and Churches - We believe that indigenous churches are the fruit of a gospel presence within a people group. We will emphasize church planting as the biblical means of multiplying disciples in a people movement toward Christ.

Collaboration - We understand that the Great Commission belongs to God’s global Church. We therefore commit ourselves to partnering together with any church who shares agreement with us on essential gospel doctrines (see the Lausanne Covenant).

Equipping - We desire our workers to go to the unreached adequately prepared for gospel ministry. Our goal is to equip churches for missional engagement and provide workers with practical training and personal outreach experience as they prepare for cross-cultural service.

Sending/Supporting/Sustaining - We pray that our workers will have healthy and fruitful ministries for many years on the field. We commit to “holding the rope” by supporting our workers financially, spiritually, relationally, and emotionally throughout their tenure overseas and at home.

The Cola Network