Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!
A Legacy of Love for Special Needs Children
2023–2025 Mission Grant 23 — $100,000
In 2023, Lutheran Special Education Ministries is celebrating 150 years of serving God's children with special needs. They have a rich and full history which began as an orphanage for children after the Civil War, turned into Lutheran School for the Deaf, and has grown into Lutheran Special Education Ministries now serving children with all kinds of learning needs across the country and internationally.One in five children in the United States has a learning need. Each child is unique, they all learn at a different pace, and some require different approaches to learning. Parents often must make the choice between public school that addresses their learning needs or Christian education that develops their spirituality.
Lutheran Special Education Ministries (LSEM) serves schools, churches, and families to advance the success of children who have learning needs by providing resources to benefit them in the classroom but also in their church communities. They have served God’s children with special needs for 150 years.
This grant will allow LSEM to continue to develop and research tools and techniques so they can provide resources to Lutheran churches to welcome, integrate, and support children with specialized needs and their families in their church bodies.
Resources for Grant #23
- 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 #23
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
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Growing Our Place: Care for Special Needs Students
2023–2025 Mission Grant 28 — $20,000
Terri Siebrass (left) and Heidi (right) measure ingredients during activity time at Our Place After School Care Inc.Our Place After School Care (Our Place) is a caring Christian community for special needs students between the ages of 13 and 20 years old, who are unable to be safe when home alone and have aged-out of the Hastings area daycare facilities. Our Place benefited from the generosity of Faith Lutheran Church which provided space in its existing facilities for their operations.
To expand the outreach and activities of Our Place, the Advisory Board recommended locating a new space to rent. A space has been located which will require little or no modification.
This grant will serve as a funding bridge to cover the monthly rent, allow them to purchase software to open a store, and allow for scholarship aid to students.
Resources for Grant #28
- 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 #28
Learn more about this mission grant and view more photos here.
Launched at the Iowa District West Convention in the summer of 2022, Rev. Dr. Jim Lamb shares a personal testimony of his struggle as a young pastor and how he was helped by an LFS counselor who brought professional support and the love of Jesus to him at a time when he was at a point of potential ministry burnout. Dr. Lamb reminded the group that he — and most pastors — are really good at hiding their pain.
The sanctity of life is enjoying a higher cultural profile than ever before. This ministry represents a fifty-year effort in the wake of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade verdict.
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 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.
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 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.
The outside of Zoe's Home. This is the view from the street.
