2010 - 2012 MITE GOAL $135,000
Listed below are the 10 Mission Grants
that were adopted for the 2010 - 2012 Biennium
Grant #1
Scholarships for Full-time Church Work Students - $55,000
Financial assistance through LWML scholarships encourages students to pursue study at a Concordia of their choice in full-time church work curriculum with the added benefit of a Christian learning environment. Scholarships will be awarded each year on the basis of need, academic standing and college acceptance. The Minnesota North District has been blessed as a result of these scholarships as some of the past recipients have received calls within our district after completing their required curriculum.
Grant #2
Scholarships for Men Preparing for Ordination - $10,000
All people benefit from God's Word when it is preached in truth and purity. To this end, God has provided men to proclaim the Gospel to all corners of the world. Many men entering the ministry face challenges of supporting a family, while also paying for housing, classes and books. Financial support is vital for educating men with God-given talents. Through mites, the LWML can help support and prepare faithful servants in Jesus Christ to reach the lost and care for all.
Grant #3
Lutheran Island Camp, Financial Support for Staff Training - $10,000
Working at Lutheran Island Camp provides a great training experience for young people to learn daily habits of love, fellowship, and spiritual growth. If you have been blessed by being at a retreat or even camping at Lutheran Island Camp, you can see the enthusiasm that is there. The staff continues to show a love for their Savior which seems to spread to all that are around them. With Christian care and ethical leadership many of these young people go into full-time church work.
Grant #4
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis Food Bank - $5,000
The Concordia Food Bank will celebrate its 30th year being a vital part of the campus. Each academic year the residential student population reaches nearly 400 in number. These men and women come from a wide spectrum of age groups, stages and circumstances in life along with varying educational and career backgrounds. Over 50 percent of the students are married and most of these couples have children under the age of 18. Counting students, spouses and children, the Food Bank is visited by nearly 500 people each month. On average, each family saves $400 per month due to the benifits of the Food Bank. To manage without this blessing would be a serious hardship to the welfare of the families.
Grant #5
Orphan Grain Train - $8,500
Organized in 1992, Orphan Grain Train volunteers have given more than three million hours of humanitarian aid, both spiritual and physical, to people worldwide. The Orphan Grain Train has collected tons of clothing, food and written materials used to extend God's kingdom. There is a need to get these items to the people who need them both in our country or to the far reaches of this world. This grant would cover the average cost of one freight container.
Grant #6
Children's Bibles for the People of SE Asia - $7,500
Parents in Southeast Asia have no Lutheran Bible storybooks for their children in their own languages. Missionaries, evangelists and churches don't have the teaching materials they need to reach out to the young children and families who so desperately need the Word of God. This grant will translate and publish the book, "A Child's Garden of Bible Stories" spreading the Gospel to Jesus' littlest lambs. These books are also needed here in the U.S., Minnesota has the second largest populations of Laotians and Thai people in the U.S. Most of these families come from a Buddhist background and know nothing about their true Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Grant #7
Medical Clinic, Cap Haitien, Haiti - $25,000
The Cap Haitien complex houses a school, a Medical clinic and a sewing center for women to learn a trade. It is a secure facility with a wall around it and contains a safe well and a generator for powering the complex. The people in Haiti are in constant need of medical care and medicine due to disease and poverty. Since the recent earthquake, the clinic has been overflowing with refugees from Port-au-Prince. Only half of the current clinic building is completed and the need is great to provide more space to administer health care to people needing medical and spiritual help.
Grant #8
Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne Food and Clothing Co-op - $5,000
The Co-op was organized in 1979 by a student who worked with congregations and local grocery stores to donate food. He accomplished this by setting up a Food Bank in his garage. Seeing that this was a help to the married students, the seminary moved the operation to the campus and eventually settled into its current location on the lower level of the Student Commons. The Co-op serves these students during their years of study by helping relieve the financial burden of feeding and clothing their families.
Grant #9
Production of Audiocassette Materials - Lutheran Blind Mission - $4,000
Lutheran Blind Mission began in 1923 and serves blind and visually impaired people. LBM is a Recognized Service Organization of LCMS World Mission. The average cost of each audiocassette is $2.35. This includes the tape and cardboard mailing box. Recording and production channels are already operational. The production of audiocassette magazines enables blind and visually-impaired people to read, hear and share the light of salvation seen through the cross of Jesus.
Grant #10
Anuak Ministry, Sauk Rapids, MN - $5,000
The Anuak people, also known as Ethiopian River people, have settled in the St. Cloud area. They are recent immigrants to the U.S. and life here has had many challenges. They have difficulties with employment, education, housing and learning English. There are many opportunities to assist them with social ministries. Some future goals are to enroll a leader into the Ethic Immigrant Institute of Theology, have the Anuak ministry become a member of the LCMS by 2016 with an ordained Anuak Pastor, and plant more Anuak churches in other Minnesota communities.
