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:

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

FULLY

FUNDED!

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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FUNDED!

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

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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FUNDED!

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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FUNDED!

5. Repair, Repaint, Revitalize and Renew - $6,500

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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FUNDED!

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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FUNDED!

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 4^th 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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FUNDED!

Download the application form here

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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FUNDED!

9.   Opening a New Outreach Center for the Blind in Portland, OR and Providing Training for the New Director - $5,000

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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FUNDED!

FULLY

FUNDED!