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

• 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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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

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

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.

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal