Caring for and Sharing Christ with Hurting People

2021–2023 Mission Grant 14 — $100,000

Alexandria Shick is a third-year Concordia Seminary deaconess student currently serving her internship at St. Luke's Lutheran Church & School in Oviedo, Fla. She plans to serve in correctional chaplaincy after graduation.

Deaconesses are continually pointing those they serve toward the cross, sharing the Gospel with them so they gain the wonderful gift of eternal life through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Concordia Seminary has requested, through this mission grant, much-needed scholarships for deaconess students and assistance with seminary costs to provide high-quality theological education. Enrollment in the new online Deaconess Studies Program is expected to increase, enabling the faculty to form more well-trained deaconesses and bring more people to Jesus and provide compassionate, Christ-centered help to those who are hurting and suffering — physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Resources for Grant #14

• Mission Grant Poster — color
• Mission Grant Poster — b/w
• Bulletin Bytes (Word doc)
• Bulletin Flyer (b/w half page insert, 2 per page)
• Devotion
• Prayer Guide & Story (combined)
• Prayer Guide
• Story

Large Print Resources for Grant #14

• Devotion — large print
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

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Gospel Outreach to Women and Children in Mongolia

2021–2023 Mission Grant 13 — $100,000

A Kazakh woman and her daughter learn about Jesus through Christian resources, such as booklets and Bible story activity books for children from Lutheran Hour Ministries.

Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) has an opportunity to expand its mission outreach of the Gospel to the Kazakh women and children in Mongolia, a non-Christian country. The Kazakh people are nominally Muslim and the country of Mongolia is largely Buddhist with a less than one percent Christian population. Through widely-accepted Women’s Listener groups, religious broadcasts, and Christian resources in the Kazakh language, family members and relatives will be impacted by the Gospel in their homes. LHM has the media expertise to ensure the Gospel message is brought to a region where the populations have not heard the Gospel. Christian resources are being distributed, including Bible studies and booklets translated into the Kazakh language, as well as into Mongolian, the main language of the region.

Resources for Grant #13

• Mission Grant Poster — color
• Mission Grant Poster — b/w
• Bulletin Bytes (Word doc)
• Bulletin Flyer (b/w half page insert, 2 per page)
• Devotion
• Prayer Guide & Story (combined)
• Prayer Guide
• Story

Large Print Resources for Grant #13

• Devotion — large print
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.

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Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!

Redeeming Life Maternity Home, Illinois Expansion

2021–2023 Mission Grant 11 —  $100,000

Joy with her newborn twins. They were born 10 weeks early and remain in the hospital at the time of this grant submission. They are doing well — just small.

Redeeming Life currently operates maternity and transitional homes in Central Florida for single pregnant women who are homeless, abused, and/or at-risk of abortion. It is a proven model. This grant will help Redeeming Life support a called deaconess to serve in a new location in the Chicagoland area. Additionally, the funds will help offset the costs, during the first two years, of operating a safe and stable home (rent, utilities, food) and provide program services for the women to be served. Redeeming Life’s goal is for their residents to learn to live independently and offers many opportunities for the women to understand that, in Christ, there is forgiveness, peace, and unconditional love.

Mission Grant Resources

• Mission Grant Poster — color
• Mission Grant Poster — b/w
• Bulletin Bytes (Word doc)
• Bulletin Flyer (b/w half page insert, 2 per page)
• Devotion
• Prayer Guide & Story (combined)
• Prayer Guide
• Story

Large Print Resources for Grant #11

• Devotion — large print
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.

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Mercy Medical Care for Tanzania

2021–2023 Mission Grant 12 — $68,182

Chapel at Mwadui Lutheran School

Mwadui Lutheran School in Shinyanga, Tanzania, has become one of the leading schools in the region with enrollment increasing from 40 to over 200 students. It is educating many new pastors, teachers, and professionals from all over western Tanzania using a curriculum with a Christian world view and daily chapel. This educational facility has become a valuable Christian outreach ministry to the community and region. However, malaria and other health issues continue to be a vexing problem for the students, teachers, staff, and community. The next step in enhancing this educational facility is starting a medical clinic. This grant will purchase medical equipment, medical supplies, and medicine to treat the various illnesses of the student community in the Southeast of Lake Victoria Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tanzania (SELVD-ELCT).

Mission Grant Resources

• Mission Grant Poster — color
• Mission Grant Poster — b/w
• Bulletin Bytes (Word doc)
• Bulletin Flyer (b/w half page insert, 2 per page)
• Devotion
• Prayer Guide & Story (combined)
• Prayer Guide
• Story

Large Print Resources for Grant #12

• Devotion — large print
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.

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Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!

Propelling the Gospel

2021–2023 Mission Grant 9 — $65,000

Missionary Pilot, Andrew, delivering PPE supplies, Bibles, Sparks magazines, and quilts to remote northern communities LAMP serves.

Lutheran Association of Missionary Pilots (LAMP) Ministry, Inc. has been using small aircraft to take the Gospel message to the Indigenous people in the most remote areas of northern Canada. Each year, hundreds of volunteer missionaries from the United States travel to teach vacation Bible school to thousands of children in remote northern communities. LAMP’s ministry is highly dependent on the two aircrafts that they use in order to get their missionaries to these places so they can bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who so desperately need to hear the Good News. The aircraft has evolved over the years, and upgrades must be made to ensure safety and the ability for LAMP’s missionaries and pilots to reach remote communities only accessible by air. Avionic instrument upgrades in the aircrafts are a costly investment. The Garmin GTX 345 model works best, not only with classical ground-based radar systems, but it also provides ADS-B input and output for both the American and Canadian/Aireon systems.

Mission Grant Resources

• Mission Grant Poster — color
• Mission Grant Poster — b/w
• Bulletin Bytes (Word doc)
• Bulletin Flyer (b/w half page insert, 2 per page)
• Devotion
• Prayer Guide & Story (combined)
• Prayer Guide
• Story

Large Print Resources for Grant #9

• Devotion — large print
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.

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Educating Pastors in Africa

2021–2023 Mission Grant 10 — $100,000

Look at the crowd at this joyous, ordination celebration in Togo!

God is calling African men to become pastors. These men of faith know the culture and how best to share God’s truth and the love of Christ in their native country. Matongo Lutheran Theological College, Kenya, East Africa, is a confessional Lutheran college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK), which is in Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). This theological college is in need of support funding. Grant funds will be used for pastoral education projects, including scholarships and seminary needs in Kenya, Togo West Africa, and Uganda, as well as general support of six missionaries — five pastors and one layman.

Mission Grant Resources

• Mission Grant Poster — color
• Mission Grant Poster — b/w
• Bulletin Bytes (Word doc)
• Bulletin Flyer (b/w half page insert, 2 per page)
• Devotion
• Prayer Guide & Story (combined)
• Prayer Guide
• Story

Large Print Resources for Grant #10

• Devotion — large print
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.

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Light of Christ in Eastern Europe

2021–2023 Mission Grant 8 — $56,000

Missionary Ben Helge, right, leads an English Talk Group as part of his ministry in the Czech Republic. This group meets every Wednesday evening to practice English and to hear the Gospel. The group is open to any high school student, and God continues to send new members to the group, who need to hear the Good News. ETG, as it's often referred to by the students, connects unbelievers to the church plant in Haví?ov-Šumbark.

For decades, Christians in Germany and Czech Republic had to hide their faith. Churches that stood for centuries were closed and generations lived with no knowledge of the Christian faith. The Lutheran Church is striving to meet the urgent need to bring the love and light of Christ to people who have been living in spiritual darkness. Recently, immigrants and refugees from the Middle East have settled in Europe, many in Germany. Our missionaries are meeting the additional challenge of reaching out to those of the Muslim faith with the message of the Triune God. Thousands of immigrants, and German and Czech citizens of all ages, need to hear the Gospel. This grant will help in the support of eight missionaries working in Germany and the Czech Republic.

Resources for Grant #8

• Mission Grant Poster — color
• Mission Grant Poster — b/w
• Bulletin Bytes (Word doc)
• Bulletin Flyer (b/w half page insert, 2 per page)
• Devotion
• Prayer Guide & Story (combined)
• Prayer Guide
• Story

Large Print Resources for Grant #8

• Devotion — large print
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal