LCMS Global Seminary Initiative — International Student Scholarships
Grant Amount: $100,000
- To provide scholarships for pastors from emerging and partner church bodies to obtain advanced degrees at the two Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) seminaries. It also will fund sending LCMS professors and qualified pastors to teach at regional seminaries around the world. Scholarships for students attending in-country seminaries as well as funding for seminars and educational conferences will be provided.
Resources for Mission Grant #9
The Global Seminary Initiative is a program that provides Lutheran theological education by bringing the best students worldwide to The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) seminaries to study at the graduate level so that they can return to their home countries and provide advanced theological leadership. Also provided is support for local regional seminaries — both infra-structure and scholarships for students to attend regional seminaries. Another offering of the program is continuing education — seminars, conferences and visits by qualified LCMS pastors and professors to teach in the local region. LWML grant money will provide scholarships for the international students.
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April 08, 2016 11:11 AM
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Providing Hope for Detroit — Acts 2 Enterprise
Grant Amount: $100,000
- An intentional undertaking of the churches in Detroit to reconnect with the communities, evangelizing and spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ through a full range of programs.
Resources for Mission Grant #18
Acts 2 Enterprise (A2E), through local congregations, is intentionally undertaking the reconnecting of Detroit, Michigan with the communities, in which they reside, evangelizing the city with the Good News of Jesus Christ. They are doing this through a Christ-centered presence in the areas of: literacy, job partnerships, parenting classes, sports camps/VBS, leadership, and community beautification. A2E will strategically provide before and after school tutoring which would be facilitated by Lutheran leaders which will also include computer classes, learning strategies to enhance reading and comprehension, test taking skills, life skills, and biblical teachings along with sharing the Gospel.
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March 08, 2016 5:25 PM
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Outreach in Refugee Camps — Lebanon
Grant Amount: $72,000
- To reach 15,000 women and children with humanitarian supplies, provide trucking, storage, and distribution for those items, along with printed materials, and for support staff.
Resources for Mission Grant #7
The goals for this outreach are to share the Good News, provide relief to the destitute women and children, and to influence long-term growth of the Gospel. Working through the Middle East Lutheran Ministry (MELM) center they reach out to camps throughout the Belkaa Valley region of Lebanon. MELM will visit the smaller refugee camps to attend to their needs on a more personal and sustained basis. Many of the men still living are elsewhere in Lebanon and work in cities. The grant will pay for humanitarian supplies, printed materials, and logistics. The grant will impact the women and children at a time of dire need with a strong Christian presence.
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February 16, 2016 10:33 AM
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Hope and Healing to the Navajo People — Rocky Mountain District
Grant Amount: $75,000
To implement Gospel-oriented programs for Navajo men, women and youth to empower and equip them to live victorious in the midst of their circumstances and to be over-comers, offering better choices for a brighter future. Programs to include: youth camps, after school enrichment programs, Boys/Girls clubs, trip to share faith with another Native people group, men’s Bible group, abused women’s support group, and women’s health education.
Resources for Mission Grant #6
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January 15, 2016 3:39 PM
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Redeeming Life Maternity Home — Sanford, Florida
Grant Amount: $100,000
- To provide critical housing and program services for their residents and babies and instill the knowledge that faith, family, and education are the key to living a happy, healthy, hope-filled life.
Redeeming Life Maternity Home provides housing and program services for single moms and babies around Sanford, Florida, and instills the knowledge that faith, family, and education are the key to living a happy, healthy, hope filled life. With the mothers being instructed in the faith, they bring their babies to the waters of Holy Baptism. Pastor DeWitt and wife, Sheryl, empower, with God’s mercy, the women to live independently: financially, physically, and spiritually. This home came from the DeWitt’s dream of being able to provide a place where women could turn and find the love, support, and hope they needed.
Resources for Mission Grant #5
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December 08, 2015 11:43 AM
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