1. LBT National Co-Workers Training Scholarships      $44,000
To provide scholarships to qualified nationals, both men and women, for the education and training needed to take leadership of Bible translation and literacy work.

 2. CAME-Reaching Asian Immigrants      $50,000
To identify, recruit, train and mentor Asian missionaries and evangelists through Center for Asian Mission and Evangelism (CAME) to reach out with the Gospel to the 97% unchurched Asians in North America.

 3. Lutheran Blind Mission Outreach Program      $32,000
To support the funding of an outreach conference and seminar for directors of blind centers, enabling them to learn from each other and improve strategies to show Jesus' love to blind and visually impaired people.

 4. Expansion of Mission Outreach Training-USA      $80,000
To help fund the expansion of the Leadership Advancement Process (LAP) Word and Service mission and outreach training program designed to educate, encourage, equip and mobilize lay men and women to reach the uncommitted people in North America.

 5. Gospel Outreach and Church Planting with Childcare Ministry      $70,000
To help establish LCMS Word and Sacrament churches in communities and expand programs of outreach and nurture in existing congregations by assisting establishment of child care ministries.

 6. Urban, Ethnic School Expansion-East St. Louis, IL      $75,000
To help fund additional classroom space, enabling more ethnic children, caught in the bleak circle of low achievement levels and fears, to learn God's love, self-esteem, academic and social skills found in a Lutheran school.

 7. Kiswahili New Testament-Braille      $54,411
To produce the New Testament in Kiswahili Braille for blind persons in Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda.

 8. Multi-National Russian Jewish Outreach       $100,000
To underwrite Russian Jewish evangelism by providing printing equipment in Russia and Israel, leadership training, and development of outreach program and production of Lutheran confessional materials in Russian, tailored for Jewish evangelism.

 9. Brazilian Mission in Boston      $30,000
To purchase Portuguese Bibles and musical instruments for worship, subsidize advertising and administrative expenses, and an emergency fund for new immigrant needs for the Portuguese community around Boston.

 10. Hispanic Outreach-West Houston, TX      $40,000
To systematically reach for Christ the burgeoning Hispanic population in W. Houston using indigenous lay leadership, church planting and community impact.

 11. Responding to HIV/AIDS Among Congregations in Kenya      $51,000
To support through Lutheran World Relief, the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of people affected by and living with HIV/AIDS, providing training for caregivers and guardians of orphans, educational materials and counseling through established Lutheran congregations.

 12. South Asian School Start-Queens, New York      $90,377
To help start Lutheran preschool and kindergarten outreach programs as a demonstration of Jesus' love to the large South Asian community in Queens.

 13. Expanding Ministries to Youth and Adults in Southwest Alaska       $75,000
To increase the successful ministries in this remote region by training leaders and mentors, establishing worshipping communities, and initiating youth ministries with Bible studies, camps and peer ministry training.

 14. Inner City Mission and Ministry-Buffalo, New York      $100,000
To renovate a warehouse into a multi-purpose Ministry Outreach and Family Life Center, provide pastoral support monies, Bibles, Sunday School materials and training for evangelism, thereby offering hope to this low income, crime infested community.

15. Shipping Orphan Grain Train Containers to Africa and Russia       $30,000
To finance shipment of containers filled with humanitarian aid such as quilts, health kits medical supplies, and religious materials like Bibles and Portals of Prayer, for distribution by the Lutheran churches of Africa and Russia.

 16. Lutheran Teachers in Sierra Leone      $84,000
To meet the urgent need for Lutheran teachers who will help erase the literacy void of this impoverished, war-torn country, and teach Christian values and God's love.

 17. Lutheran Leaders' Training Institute-Pakistan      $75,000
To help construct a secure facility in Pakistan for workers from the Middle East who will train men and women national church leaders, professors, pastors, deaconesses who will serve in their own countries.

 18. Ablaze! Implementation in North America      $100,000
To develop training programs and materials for the involvement of LCMS' wide variety of membership in order to reach the North American Ablaze! goal of reaching 50 million people by 2017.

 19. Sunday School Teacher Training-Poland      $30,000
To train Polish Lutheran educators with new teaching methods and materials to reach the children and youth, and creating opportunities for them to exercise their skills in local
congregations, camps and other outreach events.

 20. Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology-Deaconess Training      $100,000
To provide tuition assistance for 15-20 ethnic women students, development of five courses, support for a cross-cultural woman coordinator, and recruitment expenses.

 21. Concordia Welfare and Education Society-China      $100,000
To show Christ's love in three key areas of people's lives, particularly women and children, by offering aid in traditional education, health and sanitation, and rural development in China, where by law, evangelism is not allowed.