Proposed District Mission Grants for 2020-2022
Bahamas Mission Trip Amount: $5,000 Grace Lutheran Church, Sandy, Utah
Teams from Grace Lutheran make regular mission trips in a long-term partnership with LCMS- affiliated Lutherans. They are planning to provide a week-long VBS and Bible study at the Lutheran Church of Nassau (LCMS) and do some basic maintenance at the church. They will also visit All Saints Aids Camp. Grace collects items to be shipped from Utah. The funds requested will be used to distribute aid, including food; clothes; medical, household, and school supplies; and building supplies for All Saints Camp.
Bringing Light to Those Living in Darkness Amount: $2,000 Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc.
Lutheran Braille Workers, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, provides free Braille, specialized large print, and audio Christian materials and Bibles to individuals and churches. Their goal is to bring the knowledge of salvation found in Jesus to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. LBW is the only Lutheran ministry intentionally serving this population. The materials are produced by volunteers. The funds requested will be used for supplies for LBW’s Ministry Production Center in Idaho Falls which has been operating since 1985.
Care of Souls Amount: $5,000 DOXOLOGY— Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel
DOXOLOGY, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, offers a professional continuing- education program that benefits three essential categories of people involved in the life and work of a congregation: the pastor, the lay leadership, and the pastor’s wife. DOXOLOGY strengthens pastors so they can more faithfully pastor others. The funds requested will provide scholarship assistance for congregations and pastors with the highest priority going to pastors from congregations in the Utah-Idaho District of the LWML.
Equipping People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Share the Gospel Amount: $4,000 Bethesda Lutheran Communities Auxiliary
Bethesda Lutheran Communities, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, shares the gospel with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Bethesda is teaching these people how to share their faith with family and friends. The focus of this grant is to give people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to share the gospel with people in large venues and in their congregations. The funds requested will be used for mentoring expenses, mileage/travel, and conference costs.
Expanding the Dominican Republic Disability Ministry Amount: $2,000 LCMS, Hogares Luteranos el Buen Pastor (Good Shepherd Lutheran Homes)
Hogares Luteranos el Buen Pastor is a home for orphaned youth with developmental disabilities in the Dominican Republic. The missionaries and church members also visit two government institutions for people with disabilities. The funds requested would be used 1) to help with Home expenses such as food, clothing, cleaning supplies, and with medical and educational expenses and 2) to expand disability ministry at the government institutions where conditions desperately need to be improved and God’s Word can be shared.
Food for Concordia Theological Seminary’s Food and Clothing Co-op Amount: $5,000 Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne
The Food and Clothing Co-op plays a key role in helping seminarians and their families. Nearly 60% of the students are married, second career, with families. The seminary seeks to reduce their financial burden by providing these future pastors and deaconesses access to the Co-op. It supplies between 80% - 90% of all family food and household needs each month with no cost to the student. The Co-op spends about $7,500 each month on grocery and paper products. The funds requested will be used to purchase perishable food items that will be given to students.
Global Seminary Initiative Amount: $5,000 LCMS Seminary Scholarships
Currently, 31 future international Lutheran leaders attending Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, are eligible to receive support through the Global Seminary Initiative. These students are earning the advanced degrees required to serve one day as partner church presidents and faculty in their country or region. The funds requested will be used to provide scholarships to bring qualified pastors from the international community to our LCMS seminaries.
Immanuel Lutheran School Scholarships for Students Amount: $5,000 Immanuel Lutheran, Twins Falls, Idaho
Immanuel Lutheran School’s strength lies in its dedication to demonstrate love for Christ and His love for the children in all areas of academics and activities. The funds requested will be used to help students attend Immanuel Lutheran School who cannot afford tuition. The emphasis will be to help families who are struggling with difficult times such as divorce, death, or serious illness. The family fills out a form and submits it. A rubric is used to determine the amount given.
Making Jesus Known in U.S. Ethnic Communities Amount: $5,000 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
The overarching emphasis of the Center for Hispanic Studies and the Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology programs is to make Jesus known throughout our country’s ethnic communities. In many different parts of the U.S. there are considerable numbers of passionately devoted first generation immigrants serving in the LCMS. They are bringing many people of different cultural backgrounds closer to Christ with the message of eternal salvation through faith in Him. The funds requested will help pay the education costs of the students enrolled in these programs.
Missionary Support: Rev. Dr. David Preus Amount: $5,000 LCMS Office of International Mission
Rev. Dr. Preus is a missionary in the Dominican Republic; he and his family live in Santiago de los Caballeros. He serves the church through Word and Sacrament ministry in the village of Palmar Arriba. He also is on the teaching faculty of Seminario Concordia el Reformador which trains local pastors for service in Latin America. The funds requested will be used to support his work.
Missionary Support: Rev. James and Deaconess Christel Neuendorf Amount: $5,000 LCMS Office of International Mission
Rev. James and Deaconess Christel Neuendorf are missionaries in Puerto Rico. James serves as a church planter and pastor in the city of Ponce. His focus is to establish a strong Lutheran presence which will boldly proclaim the Gospel and meet the physical and spiritual needs of a community that is hungry for the Gospel and for hope. As a deaconess, Christel is involved in the long-term disaster relief efforts at the mission's various mercy houses. The funds requested will be used to support their work.
MOST Ministries—Clean Water Filters Amount: $3,000 MOST Ministries
MOST (Mission Opportunities Short Term) Ministries, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, seeks to impact the world for Jesus Christ through short-term missions by empowering the found to reach the lost. Meeting community needs helps create relationships between local pastors and the people being served. The funds requested will be used to install water filters that will provide clean water to 300 individuals, teach health and hygiene, conduct a week-long VBS, and meet spiritual needs by sharing the Gospel message of salvation and grace.
Training Leaders to Boldly declare Y’shua as Messiah, in Israel Amount: $2,000 Apple of His Eye Mission Society
Apple of His Eye Mission Society, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, plans to identify and train Israeli Jewish believers using Hebrew Catechism and New Testament texts and to develop systems and strategies for outreach and planting house fellowships. The goal is to eventually rent facilities from non-Lutheran Messianic churches to host tabernacle-type Word and Sacrament ministry worship services. There are two new Jewish believers, ready and willing to be trained, who will benefit from this grant.
Trinity Lutheran Preschool Amount: $5,000 Trinity Lutheran, Eden, Idaho
Trinity Lutheran Preschool, an active outreach ministry to the rural communities of Eden and Hazelton, draws families that are not connected to Trinity Lutheran Church (and often not to any church). There are plans for expansion to younger students and thus to reach more families. The funds requested will be used to create a space that stimulates learning through play in a nature-based area and to purchase items such as the One in Christ curriculum from Concordia Publishing House that enrich the service that the preschool provides to share Christ’s love.
Witnessing to Ethiopians: Catechisms & Devotions Amount: $3,000 The Lutheran Heritage Foundation
The Lutheran Heritage Foundation, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, spreads the gospel by translating and publishing Lutheran books, such as the Small Catechism, that help explain the Bible. These resources are distributed at little to no cost to churches and missionaries and at no cost to people who cannot afford them. The funds requested will be used to print books in eight additional Ethiopian languages for distribution in Ethiopia and to LCMS congregations in the U.S. that have Ethiopian worship services.
Printable copy here
Teams from Grace Lutheran make regular mission trips in a long-term partnership with LCMS- affiliated Lutherans. They are planning to provide a week-long VBS and Bible study at the Lutheran Church of Nassau (LCMS) and do some basic maintenance at the church. They will also visit All Saints Aids Camp. Grace collects items to be shipped from Utah. The funds requested will be used to distribute aid, including food; clothes; medical, household, and school supplies; and building supplies for All Saints Camp.
Bringing Light to Those Living in Darkness Amount: $2,000 Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc.
Lutheran Braille Workers, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, provides free Braille, specialized large print, and audio Christian materials and Bibles to individuals and churches. Their goal is to bring the knowledge of salvation found in Jesus to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. LBW is the only Lutheran ministry intentionally serving this population. The materials are produced by volunteers. The funds requested will be used for supplies for LBW’s Ministry Production Center in Idaho Falls which has been operating since 1985.
Care of Souls Amount: $5,000 DOXOLOGY— Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel
DOXOLOGY, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, offers a professional continuing- education program that benefits three essential categories of people involved in the life and work of a congregation: the pastor, the lay leadership, and the pastor’s wife. DOXOLOGY strengthens pastors so they can more faithfully pastor others. The funds requested will provide scholarship assistance for congregations and pastors with the highest priority going to pastors from congregations in the Utah-Idaho District of the LWML.
Equipping People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Share the Gospel Amount: $4,000 Bethesda Lutheran Communities Auxiliary
Bethesda Lutheran Communities, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, shares the gospel with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Bethesda is teaching these people how to share their faith with family and friends. The focus of this grant is to give people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to share the gospel with people in large venues and in their congregations. The funds requested will be used for mentoring expenses, mileage/travel, and conference costs.
Expanding the Dominican Republic Disability Ministry Amount: $2,000 LCMS, Hogares Luteranos el Buen Pastor (Good Shepherd Lutheran Homes)
Hogares Luteranos el Buen Pastor is a home for orphaned youth with developmental disabilities in the Dominican Republic. The missionaries and church members also visit two government institutions for people with disabilities. The funds requested would be used 1) to help with Home expenses such as food, clothing, cleaning supplies, and with medical and educational expenses and 2) to expand disability ministry at the government institutions where conditions desperately need to be improved and God’s Word can be shared.
Food for Concordia Theological Seminary’s Food and Clothing Co-op Amount: $5,000 Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne
The Food and Clothing Co-op plays a key role in helping seminarians and their families. Nearly 60% of the students are married, second career, with families. The seminary seeks to reduce their financial burden by providing these future pastors and deaconesses access to the Co-op. It supplies between 80% - 90% of all family food and household needs each month with no cost to the student. The Co-op spends about $7,500 each month on grocery and paper products. The funds requested will be used to purchase perishable food items that will be given to students.
Global Seminary Initiative Amount: $5,000 LCMS Seminary Scholarships
Currently, 31 future international Lutheran leaders attending Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, are eligible to receive support through the Global Seminary Initiative. These students are earning the advanced degrees required to serve one day as partner church presidents and faculty in their country or region. The funds requested will be used to provide scholarships to bring qualified pastors from the international community to our LCMS seminaries.
Immanuel Lutheran School Scholarships for Students Amount: $5,000 Immanuel Lutheran, Twins Falls, Idaho
Immanuel Lutheran School’s strength lies in its dedication to demonstrate love for Christ and His love for the children in all areas of academics and activities. The funds requested will be used to help students attend Immanuel Lutheran School who cannot afford tuition. The emphasis will be to help families who are struggling with difficult times such as divorce, death, or serious illness. The family fills out a form and submits it. A rubric is used to determine the amount given.
Making Jesus Known in U.S. Ethnic Communities Amount: $5,000 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
The overarching emphasis of the Center for Hispanic Studies and the Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology programs is to make Jesus known throughout our country’s ethnic communities. In many different parts of the U.S. there are considerable numbers of passionately devoted first generation immigrants serving in the LCMS. They are bringing many people of different cultural backgrounds closer to Christ with the message of eternal salvation through faith in Him. The funds requested will help pay the education costs of the students enrolled in these programs.
Missionary Support: Rev. Dr. David Preus Amount: $5,000 LCMS Office of International Mission
Rev. Dr. Preus is a missionary in the Dominican Republic; he and his family live in Santiago de los Caballeros. He serves the church through Word and Sacrament ministry in the village of Palmar Arriba. He also is on the teaching faculty of Seminario Concordia el Reformador which trains local pastors for service in Latin America. The funds requested will be used to support his work.
Missionary Support: Rev. James and Deaconess Christel Neuendorf Amount: $5,000 LCMS Office of International Mission
Rev. James and Deaconess Christel Neuendorf are missionaries in Puerto Rico. James serves as a church planter and pastor in the city of Ponce. His focus is to establish a strong Lutheran presence which will boldly proclaim the Gospel and meet the physical and spiritual needs of a community that is hungry for the Gospel and for hope. As a deaconess, Christel is involved in the long-term disaster relief efforts at the mission's various mercy houses. The funds requested will be used to support their work.
MOST Ministries—Clean Water Filters Amount: $3,000 MOST Ministries
MOST (Mission Opportunities Short Term) Ministries, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, seeks to impact the world for Jesus Christ through short-term missions by empowering the found to reach the lost. Meeting community needs helps create relationships between local pastors and the people being served. The funds requested will be used to install water filters that will provide clean water to 300 individuals, teach health and hygiene, conduct a week-long VBS, and meet spiritual needs by sharing the Gospel message of salvation and grace.
Training Leaders to Boldly declare Y’shua as Messiah, in Israel Amount: $2,000 Apple of His Eye Mission Society
Apple of His Eye Mission Society, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, plans to identify and train Israeli Jewish believers using Hebrew Catechism and New Testament texts and to develop systems and strategies for outreach and planting house fellowships. The goal is to eventually rent facilities from non-Lutheran Messianic churches to host tabernacle-type Word and Sacrament ministry worship services. There are two new Jewish believers, ready and willing to be trained, who will benefit from this grant.
Trinity Lutheran Preschool Amount: $5,000 Trinity Lutheran, Eden, Idaho
Trinity Lutheran Preschool, an active outreach ministry to the rural communities of Eden and Hazelton, draws families that are not connected to Trinity Lutheran Church (and often not to any church). There are plans for expansion to younger students and thus to reach more families. The funds requested will be used to create a space that stimulates learning through play in a nature-based area and to purchase items such as the One in Christ curriculum from Concordia Publishing House that enrich the service that the preschool provides to share Christ’s love.
Witnessing to Ethiopians: Catechisms & Devotions Amount: $3,000 The Lutheran Heritage Foundation
The Lutheran Heritage Foundation, a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS, spreads the gospel by translating and publishing Lutheran books, such as the Small Catechism, that help explain the Bible. These resources are distributed at little to no cost to churches and missionaries and at no cost to people who cannot afford them. The funds requested will be used to print books in eight additional Ethiopian languages for distribution in Ethiopia and to LCMS congregations in the U.S. that have Ethiopian worship services.
Printable copy here
