CHRIST'S MISSION...OUR MISSION

2006 - 2008

Mission Goal

$15,000

Mission Grants

Alaska Mission for Christ, Alaska................................................................$2,500

Alaska is a huge state. Only 19% of the people claim membership in a Christian Church, making Alaska the most non-Christian of all 50 states. The Alaska Mission for Christ desires to do year round outreach in the vast Tanana River Valley, an area with few Christian ministries. The lay ministers working in this mission completely volunteer their time and often must fund the purchase of supplies, worship materials, and transportation expenses themselves. This grant will enable them to purchase curriculum and help them defray the cost of training, travel, and networking.

Life Support--Leif Camp & Family, Russia................................................ $3,000

The LCMS Mission is no longer able to support career missionaries in Russia. Missionary Leif Camp, an ordained LCMS pastor who formerly served in Russia under them, has accepted the call of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria, an LCMS partner church. His ministry is to train and disciple pastors and share the Good News of Jesus Christ among the Russian people. Along with his wife, Zhanya, he also teaches the value of human life in an effort to advance the pro-life message in a country where 95% of women of childbearing age have had at least one abortion, with an average number having had six. Brochures, seminars, and a Russian/English website are used to telll others about the sanctity of life. Missionary Camp currently serves without salary, trusting God to supply the needs of his family and ministry. This grant will help covere housing expenses for the Camp family as they teach the Russian people about Jesus and how human life is to be cherished.

 

Food for Thought, A Place of Refuge Ministries of South Wisconsin........ $3,000

A Place of Refuge is a recognized service organization of the LCMS that ministers to pregnant women and new moms and their babies by meeting their physical and spiritual needs through advocates, Scripture, food, rent assistance, layettes, and housing. Their Blessed Again Resale Shop is a public place where the Gospel is freely shared with customers via written materials. This grant will provide Bibles, devotionals, and tracts to their clients and a new outreach brochure to the patrons of their shop in order to sow the seed of God's Word and protect the sanctitiy of life.

Mission Senders, LCMS World Missions.................................................... $3,000

LCMS World Mission through the Ablaze! movement is dedicated to sharing the Good News of Jesus with 100 million unreached or uncommittted people. God has provided 52 new long-term volunteer missionaries to sow the seed of the Gospel with those who do not yet know Jesus. Volunteer missionaries must pay their own way to serve in the mission field. This grant will assist those volunteers who do not have sufficient resources to fund 100% of the cost themselves.

 HIV and AIDS Ministry, LCMS World Relief............................................... $3,000

The Lutheran Church in South Africa is helping congregations design and implement HIV and AIDS programs and projects relating to the prevention and care of people living with the disease and those affected such as family members. Local funding for comprehensive training and programs is not available in the the amouts necessary for such an extensive undertaking. Broader based prayer, personal, and financial support is needed in order to encourage the leadership and people of the Lutheran Church of Southern Africa in this social and humanitarian effort. This grant will bring a measure of God's grace to those suffering from disease.

Scripture Use and Literacy Among the Kpelle People, LBT Liberia............ $ 500

LBT works in partnership with 14 language associations in Liberia. One of these groups in the Kpelle Literacy Association. The Kpelle people have had the New Testament in their language for over 35 years. The Bible Society of Liberia is currently working on the translation of the Old Testament. Despite the availability of God's Word in their native language, only 20-30% of the population have access to it due to illiteracy. The purpose of the Kpelle Literacy Association is to teach people how to read and write their language thereby equipping them to be in God's Word and more effectively teach their children about the Bible. This grant will help increase literacy and produce materials to facilitate the learning of God's Word.

As of 3/13/08 ALL six grants listed above have been paid.

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!

 

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