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Mission Grant Poster Pictures available for Societies
from Carmen Nagel
(arcticcats@aol.com,
or 503-634-2485)
Cost is $10, which includes the copying and postage. This will enable
each Society to have its own set of Mission Grant pictures for display,
and updates. A great bargain! Use for promoting mites and LWML. Feel
free to make any changes and to promote this project! It will serve our
District more efficiently! Here's an example:
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1.
LCMS
Board for Pastoral Education, LCMS Joint Seminary Fund-Student
Assistance
Matching Grant
- $5,000. |
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Purpose of Grant: This “Seminary Student Tuition Assistance
Matching Grant” is to provide matching tuition for student
assistance for men preparing for the holy ministry of the LCMS at
St. Louis and Ft. Wayne seminaries, specifically those candidates of
the Oregon District.
If awarded, LWML funds will be matched, (1:1), by the LCMS Joint
Seminary Fund through gifts from individual donors, family
foundations, congregations and corporations, and thus, $5,000 will
become $10,000. When funds are received, the seminaries will
distribute the matched amount of $10,000 to those students who
demonstrate financial need.

Concordia Seminary St. Louis Call Day
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FULLY
FUNDED! |
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2. Religious Life Curriculum Project for God's People with Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities - $6,500 |
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Purpose of Grant: To help Good Shepherd Auxiliary fund Bethesda
Lutheran Communities with the development of a comprehensive series
of religious life curricula for people with intellectual and
developmental disabilities (DD), designed for small group
instruction, implemented in congregation or community based
settings. The funds for printing the teachers' materials will be
used as soon as the teachers' materials are written, which is to
begin in 2010.
Our
LCMS congregations have needed quality materials for teaching the
developmentally disabled the Gospel of Christ for many years and
there has been very little doctrinally sound material to recommend.
If the Oregon District of LWML partners with the Good Shepherd
Auxiliary in funding this project, it will be of great benefit to
our Oregon congregations and the 105 people we serve, as well as
those who care for family members with DD at home. The curriculum,
once written, will be available throughout the world.

Bible Study at an
Confirmation
Picture Bingo
Adult Group Home
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FULLY
FUNDED!
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3.
Out of the Orphanage and into the
Family of Christ- The Development of Lutheran Group Homes for
Children and Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
in the Dominican Republic - $6,500
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Purpose of Grant: To help fund the formation and functioning of
Lutheran group homes for orphaned children and youth with
intellectual and developmental disabilities (DD), in the Dominican
Republic.
The group homes will be established through a Lutheran non-profit
organization called “Good Shepherd Lutheran Homes”. The group homes
will be established alongside congregations being planted through
efforts of the LCMS Dominican Republic Mission Team and its
partners. Specifically, the funds will provide for staff training
in the area of direct care-giving as well as spiritual-life
training. In addition, church leaders and members will receive
training to assure excellent care in the group homes and to equip
them to share Christ's love and salvation with the children to make
them part of the family of Christ.

Boys in a Government
Youth Groups visit
Danielle and others
Orphanage
Santiago Orphanage
visit orphans
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FULLY
FUNDED!
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4. St. John Lutheran School Curriculum Project in Eagle Point, Oregon -
$6,500 |
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Purpose of Grant: To provide social studies and health curriculum
that will enable the school to meet the curriculum goals suggested
by Concordia Publishing House for Lutheran Schools. The School was
established in 1986, starting as a preschool, and has grown to
include first through fifth grades.
Plans are to break ground for a new school facility in 2011. 94
students are currently enrolled with 50% of the students coming from
unchurched families. St. John's Lutheran School mission is to reach
children and families through a Christ centered, quality education,
both academically and spiritually.

About half of
Pastor Clark and Group of
St. John
the school
students playing
students
basketball
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FULLY
FUNDED! |
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5.
Repair, Repaint, Revitalize and
Renew - $6,500 |
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Purpose of Grant: To repair the exterior of First Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Burns, Oregon, to repaint the entire exterior of
the building, and to install a new sign at the street. To
revitalize our congregation in the community and renew our mission
outreach in the Burns area and Harney County.
Repair work would begin in the summer of 2010, or as soon as funds
were available, with painting immediately following. A new sign
would be made and installed as soon as possible. If enough funds
remained, energy efficient windows would be installed. The present
church was built in the early 1960's. It was, and remains, the only
LCMS church in the 10,000 sq. miles of Harney County. The church
has not had major repairs done to it since it was built. Due to the
closure of the mill, the railroad leaving the county and other
industries closing, the membership has dropped to an older group of
about 25 members.
The congregation is served, twice a week, by Pastor Blesi from John
Day, 70 miles away. In beautifying the church, it would become more
visible and welcoming to the community. The church reaches out to
the community through a free water color class, taught by Pastor
Blesi, donations to the local hospice and the Harney County Food
Bank and to the Women's Shelter. This small, mission church does
make a real difference in Burns, and we could draw more people into
our midst if our church was more appealing in its
appearance.

Replace existing Repair and
repaint Repair and repaint
sign
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FULLY
FUNDED!
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6.
The Gospel for Latino People -
$6,500 |
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Purpose of Grant: The grant will assist in providing funding for a
circuit rider ministry to Latino people. Lutheran Latino
Ministries, LLM, was founded in 1990 to provide ministry among the
large group of Latino people living in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
There are 600,000 Latinos living in Oregon of which95% are
unchurched. In 2005, Miguel Luna and his wife, Marta, were
commissioned to serve as a Latino team. In 2008, Miguel Luna was
ordained in the LCMS Ministry. The Lunas minister to four LCMS
congregations: Ascension in E. Portland, Trinity in North Portland,
Faith in Woodburn and Trinity in Mt. Angel.
The Lord is blessing the Luna's outreach with baptisms and
confirmations and an increasing attendance at worship services.
Funds will provide salaries, benefits and traveling funds for Pastor
Luna and his wife, Marta, who is in her last year of study to become
a Deaconess.

Children's Chat
Sunday School
Baptism of
Session
4 Children
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FULLY
FUNDED! |
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7. Financial
Assistance for LWML Women Pursuing a Degree in Professional Church
Work in the LCMS - $6,000 |
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Purpose of Grant: To prayerfully and financially assist LCMS women
from the Oregon District LWML in their last year of study, as they
prepare to serve in LCMS ministries as Deaconesses, Directors of
Christian Education, Lutheran Teachers, Directors of Christian
Outreach and Directors of Parish Education.
Training women at our two LCMS Seminaries and Concordia University
schools to share Jesus' love in Word and deed in classrooms, care
facilities, congregations and in the mission field is the heart of
this project. Funds would be given to selected 4th year,
(or last year of study), scholarship recipients when they send a
copy of their registration receipt to the VP – Gospel Outreach of
the OR. District LWML. The amount funded to each recipient would
vary.

Teaching a Child
A Group of
A Deaconess Teaching
to Read
Deaconesses
Bible Study
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FULLY
FUNDED!
Download the application form here
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8. Ethnic
Mission: Translating and Teaching the Word of God in the Pacific
Northwest- $6,000 |
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Purpose of Grant: Concordia University Portland, OR, and the NW
District of the LCMS are using the “Leadership Advancement Process”
(LAP) program to equip licensed deacons for ministry in ethnic
congregations where their “language of the heart” is Oromo,
Vietnamese or Spanish.
The funds would allow translation of one full course of the New
Testament into the three languages and would be taught within the
LAP program. The translations would be put to use throughout the
Pacific Northwest. Cost of translation is estimated at $2,000 per
course/per
year.

Ethnic Mission
Gemedo
Vietnamese
Class
Ordination
Gathering
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FULLY
FUNDED! |
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9. Opening
a New Outreach Center for the Blind in Portland, OR and Providing
Training for the New Director - $5,000 |
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Purpose of Grant: to open a new outreach center to reach out to
blind and visually impaired people so they may “see” Jesus. Basic
operation of the center would offer facilitating regular monthly
gatherings where God's Word is shared; a monthly fellowship meal;
Bible study opportunities; computer training and Braille classes.
Grant monies would go to the center to fund: two visits from
advisory personnel for training and development, first three monthly
meals; “Window Eyes” software, two years leadership training at
Lutheran Blind Mission's Christian Blind Institute and coursework
materials. Sine 1999, LBM has established 60 outreach centers
around the country. Plans are in place to have 75 more outreach
centers open in the next two years.
Bible Study
Teaching Braille
Braille Class
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FULLY
FUNDED! |
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10.
LCMS Campus Ministry Training Grant - $3,600 |
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Purpose of Grant: LCMS Campus Ministry in affiliation with
LCMS World Mission seeks to provide resources and training
for current campus ministry and student leadership and for
small groups or congregations interested in campus outreach
in Oregon.
The roots of the work of LCMS Campus Ministry date back to
the 1930's, with the mission of providing a place where
Lutheran students may gather and share their faith and
fellowship with other students. The goal of LCMS Campus
Ministry is to better equip and bring the GOOD NEWS of the
Gospel to fellow Lutheran students and others who are
seeking Biblical truth. The Campus Ministry's mission is to
be a catalyst for Christ on college campuses with the goal
of establishing 10 – 12 new campus ministries per year.
There are currently three campus ministries in the Oregon
District. There is an opportunity for at least three more.
Because this is an ongoing project, implementation will
begin as soon as funds are available.

Student Booth
Phoenix, AZ
Wed. Evening
on Campus
Building Project
Prayer Circle |

FULLY
FUNDED! |
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11.
Library Resources, Lutheran Seminary, Atsimoniniavaka,
Madagascar - $3,900 |
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Purpose of Grant: To build the library of the Lutheran Seminary
in Madagascar by providing much needed books and/or computer
manuscripts. The funds will be dispersed according to the
priority list of manuscripts, books, CD's, and/or computers as
set fort by the Dept. of Pastoral Ministry and Missions in
consultation with Lutheran Seminary Professor Daniel
Rakotonirina, or his successor.
The island of Madagascar today has 3.5 million members of the
Madagascar Lutheran Church, which began in the late 1800's. New
churches are being started every month. The Madagascar Lutheran
Theological Seminary had 100 students in 2008. The opening of
the 2009 school year brought the student body up to 200 single
and married men. The Malagasy Lutheran Church has more than
6,000 congregations and only 1,200 pastors.

Current Library
One-Room
Luther's Seal
Classroom
in Concrete
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FULLY
FUNDED! |
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