Do You Know Your Mission Grants?

Every quarter we will update our list so you can be informed about the ministries for which you are praying and collecting mites.

1.  Trinity/HOPE                                                                                                    $5000

     This grant would help provide funds for one Lutheran School in Haiti to feed an

      average of 100 students a daily noon meal so the children can learn more effectively

      as well as be fed with the Word of God.

2.  RMD-Debt Assistance Program                                                                       $7500

     This grant would help fund the annual grants to LCMS pastors with educational debt

      in the RMD.  The goal of RMD is to provide money equal to ½ of a struggling 

      pastor’s monthly educational debt payment which would help relieve his financial

      stress and promote his remaining at his present call.

3.   Kings’ Camp at Lutheran Valley Retreat                                                      $6000

     This grant would help fund a week of camp for 60 youth from a Denver youth home

     (that have been in and out of foster homes their entire life), for a two year period.

4.  Veterans of the Cross                                                                                         $5000

      This grant would provide funds that would be used to assist in the care and support

      of LCMS called workers and/or their spouses who are experiencing personal

      financial difficulties in their retirement years.

5.  Developing Religious Life Curriculum for God’s People with Intellectual and

           Developmental Disabilities                                                                                                      $8000

     This grant would provide funds for the printing of teacher materials so that the

     message of salvation can be shared everywhere with people with intellectual and

     developmental disabilities.

6.  Opening an Outreach Center in Ft. Collins, CO-Lutheran Blind Mission    $5000

      This grant will provide funds to help create a mission station based at a congregation

      to reach out to isolated blind people to demonstrate God’s love and to provide

      training for the new center director.

7.   Support for the University Chapel in Boulder, CO                                          $6000

      This grant would provide funds to help support the campus ministry of the University

      Lutheran Chapel at the University of Colorado.

8.   Missionary Household Setup-LBT                                                                     $7500

     This grant will be used to help a missionary family set up their home when they arrive

     on the mission field so they can begin providing the people with the Good News of

     Jesus in their own language as soon as possible. 

9.   Expansion of the Ministry of the Lutheran Hispanic Missionary Institute, El  

      Paso, TX                                                                                                               $7000

      This grant would provide funds to support and expand the church worker training

      program which prepares those already fluent in Spanish and familiar with Hispanic

      culture and life for ministry (deacon) to their communities.

10.  Training Pastors for Gospel Outreach in Africa                                             $7000

       This grant would provide funds to finance the necessary travel and communication with

       African Lutheran churches to facilitate the training of pastors for Gospel outreach in Africa.

       The Fluegges must raise 100% of the funds needed for the support of this ministry and their

       personal needs in Africa.

11.  Mission Outreach to Immigrants from Ethiopia                                            $7500

       This grant would provide funds for Vicar Tomas Bayou (He must raise his own

       funds for this mission ministry.) to help launch his Ethiopian Lutheran ministry in

       the Aurora/Denver area with an outreach focus on the needs of young families

12.  Scholarship Assistance to Students Preparing for Ethnic Ministry             $3500

     This grant provides scholarship assistance to RMD students preparing for ethnic and

     cross-cultural ministry at our synodical schools.