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@ LWML Mission Grants grants work
2007–2009 Biennium $1.7 Million Goal Disbursed Deaf Lay/Clergy Training – Concordia Seminary, St. Louis $25,000 Building Ten Churches in India Female Missionary to Muslim Maninka in Guinea Lutheran Bible Translators' Transportation
Balance $25,000
0 $100,000 $100,000 PAID $60,000 PAID
Expand Mission Work in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia $104,500 Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, and Ethiopia have Mission Training Centers to equip new believers to become teachers, evangelists, pastors, and servants of new congregations in these regions. LCMS World Mission personnel help and supervise these centers and supply materials, but additional funding is necessary to reach these new Christian servants. A $104,500 grant helps develop and support new Mission Training Centers in Africa.
Reaching Across Cultures Through Urban Children — Ohio $32,500
“EL COMEDOR” Soup Kitchen – Chicago $33,000 Reaching Across Cultures Through Urban Children – Ohio $32,500
PAID PAID
Building Hope in the City, an urban crosscultural mission organization, has successfully reached out to immigrants migrating to inner cities of Ohio. Partnering with 8 urban congregations, Building Hope in the City seeks to offer “Urban Family Learning Centers” that offer weekly evangelism activities for children, tutoring programs, and Gospel outreach to Arab and African immigrants. A grant of $32,500 supports this mission work throughout large cities in Ohio.
LWML Mission Grants Ballot 2009 – 2011 Humanitarian Aid Opens Mission Field in North Korea $100,000 Earthquake Relief Aid and Church Plants in Peru $100,000 Local Christians Trained for Human Care Ministry in Asia $100,000 Human Care and Pastoral Ministries Developed in Latvia and Lithuania $87,500 Deaconesses Trained in Latin America $100,000 Kyrgyzstan Locals Trained for Evangelism $100,000 10 Chapels, Transportation and Pastoral Training in Tanzania $88,000 Humanitarian Aid Opens Mission Field in Vietnam $100,000 Human Care Outreach in Kazakhstan $90,000 The Hope Center for Refugees and Immigrants – Ohio $90,000 Missionary Director for Lutheran Inter-city Network Coalition (LINC) – Baltimore $85,000 Ethnic Ministry Support in the Northeast U.S. $90,000 The Carpenter’s Hands — Youth Refurbish Homes – Florida $26,000 Defray Cost of Shipping Quilts by Lutheran World Relief $80,000 Spiritual Retreats for Outreach Training – Cambodia $30,000 SUMMER 2009
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Light of Christ Chinese Lutheran Mission – St. Louis $75,000 Lutheran Braille Workers Provide English Braille Bibles – Africa $100,000 Lutheran Latino Ministries Outreach Support – Oregon $40,000 Digitalized Classes for Specific Ministry Pastor Program – Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne $36,000 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Food Bank Relocation $50,000 International Student Ministry Provides Bibles and Christ-Centered Resources $30,000 Native Leadership Scholarships for Students Enrolled in Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology (EIIT) $100,000 Mission Support to Dominican Disabled Children $50,000 LCMS Prison Ministry Provides Devotional Materials $50,000 Body and Soul Care for Children in India $50,000 Lutheran Blind Mission Gospel Tract CD and Outreach Events $80,000 The Bridge Hispanic Outreach Ministry – North Carolina $50,000 Psalm 69:14 Project — Emergency Disaster Aid in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana $50,000 17 –
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