Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are three grants featured!
Healing Your Heart — Faith-based Child Counseling
2025–2027 Mission Grant 10 — $100,000
Leija Elezovic, Lead Child and Family Therapist at Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin, demonstrates play therapy techniques. The child pictured is not an actual LCFS client. The Health and Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information, limits the way LCFS can use photographs of clients in therapy.Protecting and nourishing the mental health and well-being of children is the mission of Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin (LCFS). They protect a child’s integrity, self-worth, spiritual well-being, and mental health through professional compassionate Christian counseling.
The outpatient child therapy clinic was expanded in August 2023 and the number of children served by LCFS grew beyond capacity in six months. The clinic needs to expand its services again to meet the demands and needs of countless children in the greater Milwaukee community.
As children get better and stronger, the lives of parents, siblings, and other family members often improve. LCFS also deploys trained therapists to respond to community crises and offer Christ’s healing.
This grant will increase the number of therapists working in the clinic from five to seven, purchase therapeutic toys, and develop promotional materials to present to LCMS churches and groups.
Resources for Grant #10
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Mission Grant Story PDF
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Prayer Guide PDF
- Bulletin Insert PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #10
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
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NOT ALONE: Gospel Help for Families in Crisis
2025–2027 Mission Grant 11 — $92,500
Project NOT ALONE: Gospel Help for Families in Crisis provides teams of LCMS pastors and licensed mental health therapists to bring help through in-person and virtual educational events, lead support groups, and provide individualized, Gospel-focused care to the increasing number of families with children experiencing a current crisis with gender identity confusion or transition, mental illness, or suicide risk — or a history of these challenges resulting in alienation, separation, or loss.The number of serious mental health problems, suicide attempts, gender identity confusion and transition, and alienation from family and church is impacting young people and their parents. These cultural and mental health issues are destroying faith, lives, and families. Because of the stigma surrounding these topics, it is often difficult for Christian families to ask for help. They would like care that is scripturally sound, and Gospel-focused.
Lutheran Family Service (LFS) provides teams of LCMS pastors and licensed Christian mental health therapists who bring help through in-person and virtual education events, lead support groups, and provide individualized Gospel-focused care to the increasing number of families facing these mental health issues. Many LCMS parents facing these circumstances feel isolated and alone and are at risk of leaving the church.
This grant will fund teams of LCMS pastors and licensed mental health therapists to provide Gospel-focused care for families.
Resources for Grant #11
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Mission Grant Story PDF
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Prayer Guide PDF
- Bulletin Insert PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #11
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
Donate to the LWML Mission Goal
Increasing Access to Lutheran Counseling Services
2025–2027 Mission Grant 30 — $100,000
Concordia Counseling is a Recognized Service Organization (RSO) and an outreach of the Brownstown and Seymour Circuits of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Deaconess Michelle Downey addressed the question "What is Lutheran Counseling?" in conversation with the 19 congregations that have partnered to support this ministry. Concordia Counseling exists to provide compassionate counseling services that are Biblically sound, clinically effective, and financially affordable.Concordia Counseling, a Lutheran Outreach Ministry based in Jackson County, has the goal of serving all people, churched and unchurched, with Christ-centered counseling that is biblically sound, clinically effective, and financially affordable. The need for Christ-centered and Gospel-oriented counseling care is evident in our homes, our families, and our communities. People need the sure hope that only Jesus Christ can offer.
Concordia Counseling is dedicated to offering services at a discounted rate so that financial hardships do not prevent anyone from receiving the life-giving message of the Gospel. To increase their services to congregations throughout the Indiana District, they want to offer more retreats, training sessions, and expanded consultation services. An additional therapist is needed to offer care for those hurting.
This grant will help Concordia Counseling offer affordable care, expand its program throughout the Indiana District, and meet some of the costs of onboarding a new therapist.
Resources for Grant #30
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Mission Grant Story PDF
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Prayer Guide PDF
- Bulletin Insert PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #30
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
1.9 BILLION people...nearly a quarter of the Earth's population...that's how many Muslims there are in our world. They are men, women and children living in spiritual darkness and fear, starving for the love of Jesus Christ. Some have never heard of Him. For people in Muslim communities who HAVE heard and want to learn more about the Christian faith, they often face real danger and threats. For these former Muslims and searching Christians, life can be very lonely and isolated.
Building the congregation in Tel Aviv starting with a core group gathering for worship
The mission of Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch is to help at-risk children and their families succeed in the name of Christ.
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!
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]
