Healthy Families — Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska
Grant Amount: $60,000
- To continue to move forward at the Centers with its mission to build and strengthen individual, family, and community life, beginning with pregnant mothers, infants, and children under age five.
Resources for Mission Grant #8
The Lutheran Family Services (LFS) centers will continue to move forward with its mission to build and strengthen individuals, family, and the community beginning with pregnant mothers, infants, and children under the age of five. LFS has 29 centers from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to North Platt, Nebraska. They use an incentive-based combination of programing including parenting classes, support groups, therapy, and case management, reducing the risk of child abuse and neglect. While teaching the parent(s) parenting skills, it will help the child to feel secure, nurtured, and able to succeed in learning and in life.
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Posted on
December 02, 2016 12:44 PM
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“In Their Hands and Upon Their Hearts” — Lutheran Bible Translators, Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, and Namibia
Grant Amount: $50,000
- To fund the printing and distribution of scripture in mother tongue languages where Lutheran Bible Translator supported translation projects are ongoing or have recently been completed in Botswana, Ethiopia, and Angola/Namibia Africa.
Resources for Mission Grant #12
Understanding and acceptance of the gospel message is the door to Christian faith. The unique mission of Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT) is to make scripture accessible to those who do not yet have it in the language of their hearts. This LWML Mission Grant will provide God’s Word in print and media production in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, and Namibia and help in accelerating the accessibility of Scripture.
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Posted on
November 30, 2016 3:21 PM
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“We Are God's Workmanship” — International Student scholarship at St. Paul High School, Concordia, Missouri
Grant Amount: $32,500
- To assist in supplementing the expenses of six Saint Paul Lutheran High School (boarding school) students from impoverished countries who intend to return to their homes as pastors, teachers, missionaries or in other areas of church work.
Resources for Mission Grant #13
St. Paul Lutheran Church in Concordia, Missouri is a boarding school with their student body being 45% international students. These students are from impoverished countries across the globe. By assisting with funds for these students, who intend to prepare for ministry and return to their country of origin as leaders, they will declare Christ “to the ends of the earth.” Many of these students go to study at St. Paul in preparation for post-secondary education at a Concordia University.
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Posted on
November 11, 2016 9:52 AM
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ASHLEY JENKINS
Training Teachers and Leaders — Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Grant Amount: $100,000
- To assist the global Lutheran churches in equipping those who seek advanced theological training who will return to their homeland and train countless others to proclaim Jesus boldly.
Resources for Mission Grant #10
LWML will assist the global Lutheran churches in equipping those who seek advanced theological training. These students will return to their homeland and train countless others to proclaim Jesus boldly. Very few of these church bodies are able to support the cost of sending to The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod the best men and women that they have for graduate study. The graduate school of Concordia Seminary St. Louis is thankful for its increased opportunity to provide training of International Confessional Lutheran teachers and leaders for informed and thoughtful service in the church in the world today.
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Posted on
October 18, 2016 2:16 PM
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Deaconess Training — LCMS support for International Partner Churches
Grant Amount: $90,000
- To provide educational and financial support to our partner churches who have introduced deaconess training programs within their church body, promote education to the underprivileged women who have a passion to learn confessional theological studies and serve the church.
Resources for Mission Grant #16
This grant will provide educational and financial support to our partner churches who have introduced deaconess training programs within their church body like the Philippines, Latvia, Liberia, Indonesia, to name a few. It will also promote education to the underprivileged women who have a passion to learn confessional theological studies and serve the church. Further, the grant helps to purchase text books and other resources; funds short term mission trips to disaster hit areas; and scholarships, student aid, and tuition support.
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Posted on
September 12, 2016 1:49 PM
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