Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!
Tanzania Children's Homes
2023–2025 Mission Grant 19 — $74,500
In July 2022, a group from St. John, Bingen (Decatur, IN) travelled to Tanzania to meet the pastors, deaconesses, church leaders, and children at the home they funded for their 175th anniversary.The Tanzania Children’s Home welcomes albino children to offer security, care, and education. Albinism (limited melanin pigment in the skin, eyes, and hair) is especially prevalent in Tanzania. Children with albinism face health risks of skin cancer and visual impairment and are threatened by the pagan practices of the tribal religions that falsely teach their body parts have magical powers to make one rich, successful, and powerful. The home offers security and specialized care for the children that their families cannot provide and is located on the campus of the Lutheran Boarding School in Mwadui. They are raised in the knowledge and love of the Lord and are transported to the Mwadui Lutheran Secondary School for their education.
This grant will help purchase a bus for safe transportation of the children and will contribute to the support of the children.
Resources for Grant #19
- Mission Grant Story
- Bulletin Byte (Word doc)
- Bulletin Insert (half page insert, 2 per page)
- Devotion
- Prayer Guide
- Zoom Background (JPG)
Large Print Resources for Grant #19
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
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Bringing God's Word to India
2023–2025 Mission Grant 25 — $100,000
"The Lutheran Study Bible" translation project began at this meeting in South India in 2018. These are the translators who started working on the Tamil language translation.Thirty-two million Christians living in India do not have access to a study Bible in their own language that has abundant, doctrinally sound study notes, and commentary to help in understanding God’s Word. The India Bible Translation Project’s mission is to publish the study notes and commentary from The Lutheran Study Bible into the Tamil and Telugu language.
This grant will provide funds to complete the translation work. With The Lutheran Study Bible translated in their heart language, indigenous Indian pastors, seminarians, and members of Lutheran churches in India and Sri Lanka will be better able to understand and share the Good News of Jesus Christ. The Indian Lutheran Study Bible will be a great blessing to the members of the India Evangelical Lutheran Church and Ceylon Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sri Lanka.
Resources for Grant #25
- Mission Grant Story
- Bulletin Byte (Word doc)
- Bulletin Insert (half page insert, 2 per page)
- Devotion
- Prayer Guide
- Zoom Background (JPG)
Large Print Resources for Grant #25
Updates and Articles
Mission Grant disbursement update — Check Presentation: "Bringing God's Word to India"
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
Lutheran Hour Ministries-Kazakhstan staff and volunteers distribute food packages to families living in extreme poverty in remote villages and share the love of Jesus.
The Sentido Latino weekly podcast is hosted by Rev. Luciano Vega-Ayala and Deaconess Noemi Guerra. The program addresses issues and values that directly impact U.S. Hispanics' family, spiritual, and community life.
The outside of Zoe's Home. This is the view from the street.
ELMS translation of LSB Divine Service Setting III into ASL being recorded
Worship Anew says: "We are blessed to have our media center on the campus of Concordia Theological Seminary. As a Recognized Service Organization of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and a member of Lutheran Services in America, Worship Anew shares the correct interpretation and presentation of biblical doctrine as presented in the Lutheran Confessions and articulated in the Book of Concord. Worship Anew comes alongside the mission of the LCMS to vigorously make known the love of Christ by word and deed."
Before water system installation by Water and the Word, these girls are hauling water on their backs to their school.
Benard Wadegu (#281) was rescued on 18/02/2014. He had run away from home due to peer influence and was found in the local market. He was invited twice to Capstone youth center at Lutheran Church in Kisumu. He had really worked hard in secondary school and finished wit a "B" average and qualified for a government scholarship to university. This is quite remarkable for a former street boy. He is at Masinde Muliro University studying for a BA in information technology.
