Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!
Building a Place of Care
2025–2027 Mission Grant 8 — $60,000
The mission of Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch is to help at-risk children and their families succeed in the name of Christ.Since 1952, Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch has touched the lives of more than 43,000 at-risk children and their families. They bring Christ-centered hope and healing to children who have experienced severe psychiatric, emotional, behavioral, and/or developmental challenges due to abuse, neglect, violence, and other heartbreaking traumas.
The Ranch is planning to build the Zurcher Cottage, a psychiatric residential treatment facility, replacing the current cottages. Within the Zurcher Cottage, they plan to create the Reflection Room, which will serve as a safe and calming environment to support the emotional, spiritual, and psychological well-being of the children. Not only will this room benefit the children, but it will also directly support the staff during stressful work shifts and allow them to be more effective caregivers to the children in their care.
This grant will help fund the construction and furnishing of the Reflection Room on the Ranch’s Minot campus.
Resources for Grant #8
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Mission Grant Story PDF
- Prayer Guide PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #8
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
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Sharing God’s Love and Changing Lives of Families
2025–2027 Mission Grant 29 — $81,313
Four of the youth in the Academy traveled with the mentors, Anthony and Noel, and our Executive Director attended Best Practices in Phoenix this last year. We were able to meet Vice President of Gospel Outreach Karen Morrison while there! The youth were able to be leaders and share with everyone they encountered!Camp Restore Detroit (CRD) is a ministry serving in the northeast corner of Detroit. Their goal is to partner with the community to restore neighborhoods and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They have established and seen growth in programs that focus on combating issues around poverty, homelessness, abuse, and broken families. There is also a focus on comprehensive youth mentoring and a training initiative. Overall, Camp Restore works to offer a safe, supportive environment where youth and young adults can transform their lives through mentoring, vocational training, life skills education, and spiritual care.
Specifically, the next step is to create a comfortable dedicated space where youth can receive tutoring, participate in Bible studies, plus access essential resources like laundry facilities and showers.
This grant will be used to renovate a building, cover construction costs, and purchase furniture for this next phase of outreach in the community.
Resources for Grant #29
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Mission Grant Story PDF
- Prayer Guide PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #29
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
Joann Fairchild, volunteer advocacy coordinator, is organizing the baby items to go in the baskets. Hats off to her as she has been serving for the past 30 years! Believe it or not, Joann is 91 years old at the time of this picture. She has a heart of gold. Linda Haas is our other coordinator-in-chief. She personally delivers the layettes to the mothers. Some neighborhoods are not safe. God helps! He provides!
Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries serves expectant mothers, welcoming them and their preborn babies, throughout their pregnancies. The Christ-centered love and care for these women and children continues after the child is born as these young families are welcomed and discipled through new parenthood. [Pictured, left to right: Aileen,* Blanca,* Caliyah,* and Deena*, with their young children at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Sanford, Florida - *pseudonyms used for privacy]
The heart of Set Apart To Serve (SAS) is the formation of church workers to ensure that LCMS continues to proclaim and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our congregations and communities until Christ returns. Pastors and professional church workers are indispensable to accomplishing each of the Synod's seven mission priorities.
