Are you planning ahead? Here is a link to the December 2024 resources for LWML Mission Grant #21 and LWML Mission Grant #26.

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

Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!

Sharing Christ with Women and Children in Kazakhstan

2023–2025 Mission Grant 20 — $100,000

Lutheran Hour Ministries-Kazakhstan staff and volunteers distribute food packages to families living in extreme poverty in remote villages and share the love of Jesus.

The mission of Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM), based on the clear teaching of Scripture, is bringing Christ to the Nations and the Nations to the Church. The established LHM ministry center in Kazakhstan carries out Gospel outreach to a non-Christian country where many people are facing hardships and have limited opportunities to hear the Gospel. 

LHM has identified opportunities to reach out and share the Good News with women and their families in urban areas and remote villages. Effective outreach methods have included Christian training programs, resources, and media that allow them to share the love of Jesus. Outreach through media and Christian discipleship materials allow families to hear God’s message of salvation in culturally appropriate ways. 

This grant will support the powerful Christian witness of love to strengthen relationships, provide encouragement, and build faith in Jesus.

Resources for Grant #20

• 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 #20

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

Updates and Articles

Mission Grant disbursement update — $50K For Two Great Missions

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

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal

Expanding Gospel Outreach to Hispanics in U.S.

2023–2025 Mission Grant 22 — $100,000

The Sentido Latino weekly podcast is hosted by Rev. Luciano Vega-Ayala and Deaconess Noemi Guerra. The program addresses issues and values that directly impact U.S. Hispanics' family, spiritual, and community life.

Hispanics have become the second largest ethnic population in the United States and Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) realizes that there are many opportunities to reach out with the Gospel using Christian resources that are available through media and outreach technology. 

LHM is not simply translating English materials into Spanish, they are crafting programming, media content, and written materials for Hispanics by Hispanics. These are applicable to daily life in the American culture and help to spread the Gospel. Working with LCMS ministry leaders, churches, districts, universities, and seminaries, LHM has been able to reach out to more of the Hispanic population. 

This grant will share God’s message of salvation with the Hispanic people through technology in their own language, which will help strengthen their faith and encourage them to seek to learn more about Jesus. 

Resources for Grant #22

• 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 #22

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

Updates and Articles

Mission Grant disbursement update — $50K For Two Great Missions

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

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal

Zoe's Home Support

2023–2025 Mission Grant 18 — $75,000

The outside of Zoe's Home. This is the view from the street.

Zoe’s Home, a ministry of Trinity Lutheran Church in Clinton, Missouri, helps homeless and at-risk pregnant and parenting women in need. The home enables women at risk of abortion or losing parental custody to overcome their current life situations and obstacles. 

Residents of Zoe’s Home engage in spiritual care through church activities and required Bible studies. The women participate in activities and classes to grow life skills in parenting, finances, cooking, and hygiene. 

After a one-year stay in Zoe’s Home, the residents’ goals are to complete their education, find steady employment, procure reliable transportation, attain financial independence, find independent housing, and actively engage in church and community support services. 

This grant will provide funds to meet the costs to ensure housing, food, transportation, life skills education, case management, and staffing for Zoe’s Home.

Resources for Grant #18

• 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 #18

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

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

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal

Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!

Enhancement of Deaf Ministry and Outreach

2023–2025 Mission Grant 14 — $47,000

ELMS translation of LSB Divine Service Setting III into ASL being recorded

There are an estimated 500,000 deaf users of American Sign Language (ASL) in the United States, 95% of whom are unchurched. There are 124 local or congregational deaf ministries in the LCMS; however, there is a severe shortage of Lutheran resources and interpreters. Ephphatha Lutheran Mission Society (ELMS) is dedicated to serving and supporting the deaf and hard of hearing community with the Gospel. 

This grant will help provide interpreters and resources to spread the Gospel message to deaf people in the United States by allowing ELMS to expand its Church Interpreter Training Academy to several satellite locations, potentially training more than 100 new interpreters. It will also allow them to continue ASL translation work of the Lutheran Service Book settings 1, 2, 4, and Matins for the benefit of all those who are deaf.

Resources for Grant #14

• 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 #14

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

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

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal

Nurturing Faith for the Aging

2023–2025 Mission Grant 17 — $100,000

Worship Anew says: "We are blessed to have our media center on the campus of Concordia Theological Seminary. As a Recognized Service Organization of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and a member of Lutheran Services in America, Worship Anew shares the correct interpretation and presentation of biblical doctrine as presented in the Lutheran Confessions and articulated in the Book of Concord. Worship Anew comes alongside the mission of the LCMS to vigorously make known the love of Christ by word and deed."

Lutheran Ministries Media (DBA Worship Anew) is well-known and established in the Lutheran community. It already reaches thousands of people throughout the United States with its 30-minute worship broadcasts and Hope-Full Living daily devotionals. It takes God’s Word to a growing population of aging, unchurched, and those in desperate need of hearing the Gospel. 

Worship Anew is rapidly growing each year and exceptionally positioned to reach a mass audience with the bold proclamation of our Lutheran doctrine through an expansion of printed and web-based resources. It seeks to nurture and strengthen the faith of aging adults by creating Biblical resources that address the concerns and difficulties of this critical stage of life. 

This grant will help develop and continue to provide Gospel-centered resources to our aging population and many others.  

Resources for Grant #17

• 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 #17

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

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

Donate to the LWML Mission Goal