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After the Grants Have Been Paid

Resources

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

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LCMS Deaconess Ministry

2019-2021 Mission Grant 21 — $39,523

Students in Philippines with resources purchased by LWML

LCMS Deaconesses are women who are full time professional church workers, trained to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a ministry of works of mercy, spiritual care, and teaching the Christian faith. The LCMS Deaconess Ministry program will provide LCMS students the opportunity to become a church professional, learning and training to understand the diaconal leadership, the work of deaconesses as applied to body and soul ministry. This grant will provide educational and financial support to our partner churches who introduced deaconess training programs within their church bodies like the Philippines, Latvia, Liberia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India.

Resources for Grant #21

• 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 and Story
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print
• Winter 2020 LWQ article — Deaconess Ministry: Demonstrating the Compassion of Christ

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Music Outreach, Classes, and Resources on the Border

2019-2021 Mission Grant 20 — $98,400

Children sing, smile and rejoice as they join in praising at a weekly mission outreach program.  Grant funds would enable YLM to expand its classes for young children reaching families who already come each week to YLM's mission campus as a part of other ministry efforts.

The ministry of Ysleta Lutheran Mission Human Care (YLMHC) impacts the lives of 400-500 students with educational programs, classroom space, and equipment. For the past 17 years YLMHC’s music ministry has proven successful in reaching out to the unchurched by witnessing to the mercy and grace of Christ.  The Adelante Ministries offers music classes and leadership training to youth and adults while it also provides service to the church and community. Through involvement in this music program, many students have come to faith in Christ. This grant will enable YLMHC to better equip their classroom and rehearsal space so they can serve and teach a larger range of students. It will also allow them to adapt existing space for music instruction, purchase recording equipment, create video tutorials for online instruction, fund a music intern position, and purchase musical instruments for students unable to afford their own. 

Resources for Grant #20

• 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 and Story
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print
• Update — God’s Perfect Timing

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Making Jesus Known in the United States Ethnic Communities

2019-2021 Mission Grant 19 — $100,000

Bennego Kangar is an Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) student and a native of Liberia. He serves at LINC (Lutheran Intercity Network Coalition) Ministries International - Twin Cities, in St. Paul, Minn. and at theAlley Church in Cottage Grove, Minn. He came to the U.S. from Liberia in 1992, first serving in Florida and later in Alabama, Texas and New Mexico before moving to Minnesota. Also during that 26-year period, he was called to service positions in Malawi and Brazil. 
His service with LINC includes church planting and outreach, mostly to members of large Liberian and Ethiopian communities in the St. Paul area. "My EIIT studies and my later ordination as a pastor will help enable me to share the Word from a stronger biblical foundation," he says. "I feel that God has called me to this service, and it's a passion of mine to bring people to Christ, to help them grow in their understanding of the Lord, and to help them to walk with Jesus Christ."   

Throughout the country, there are many devoted first-generation immigrants serving in full-time ministry, reaching out to their ethnic communities and sharing the Gospel. Many of these church workers are enrolled in either of two Concordia Seminary programs – the Center for Hispanic Studies (CHS) and the Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT). Both share the mission to make Christ known in their respective ethnic communities. CHS has a four-year program taught in Spanish and includes students from many Hispanic-Latino cultures. The EIIT program already has students that have been working in Word and Sacrament ministry as part of their culture. These students often have strained financial circumstances that are making it difficult to pay for this necessary education. Most hold two and three jobs to make ends meet but are willing to go to great lengths in the service of Christ and His Gospel. It is vital that they have the Biblical foundation to go with their passion for ministry. This grant will go towards funding the education costs of these devoted students and church workers.

Resources for Grant #19

• 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 and Story
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

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

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Sri Lanka Multipurpose Building Construction

2019-2021 Mission Grant 18 — $50,000

Immanuel Lutheran Church congregation at worship on Sunday morning.

The Lutheran church has operated in Sri Lanka since the 1920’s. Over the years, Lutherans in Sri Lanka have suffered numerous tests and trials. The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod has four very active congregations and seven preaching stations. There are three pastors for the 11 congregations. The need to train pastors is evident by the interest and enrollment in pre-seminary classes.  For many years the Ceylon Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sri Lanka has needed a sanctuary for Immanuel Lutheran Church, a central administrative office, and facilities to offer the theological classes for future pastors which will provide a permanent Lutheran seminary. Plans for a building to house the sanctuary, administrative offices, and theological classrooms have been designed. This grant will assist in funding the construction of the Sri Lanka Multipurpose Building. 

Resources for Grant #18

• 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 and Story
• Prayer Guide — large print
• Story — large print

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

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal