Listed below are the mission grants and scholarships being funded through the 2008 biennium with the mites that are received from units and zones.
Grants are funded as the project requests monies and funds become available.
$110,200 IS NEEDED TO FULLY FUND ALL GRANTS
1. Scholarships for Pastoral Students - $15,000 will be awarded
2. Scholarships for Church Worker Students - $15,000 will be awarded
3. Trinity/HOPE – funds will provide a noon meal for 125 children in Lutheran Schools in Haiti. $4,570
4. Concordia Theology Seminary Food Co-Op - This project will provide for the purchase of perishable food items to help seminary students offset their financial burdens. $10,000
5. Lutheran Blind Mission Outreach Center - funds will be used to assist with the opening of a new outreach center in Pensacola, Florida and provide training for the new center director. $5,000
6. Pregnancy Resource Center/Warner Robins.GA - funds will go for pregnancy related services to at –risk women and families of Houston County, Ga. through Lutheran Services of Georgia as a means to build bridges in the community. $10,000
7. Eyeglass Mission in Nicaragua - Funds will be used to support First Lutheran Church, Gainesville, FL in cooperation with the Lutheran Hour Ministries will now be able to continue their on going mission by helping to purchase and distribute eyeglasses, supplies, equipment and Christian material to the needy in Nicaragua. $15,000
8. University Lutheran Peer Ministry – The Peer Ministry Program of University Lutheran Campus Ministry, Tallahassee, Florida will now be able to fund special events and celebrations while providing an effective Lutheran presence among students involving them in worship/program and maintaining contact with students who are members of our district congregations. $8,000
9. Hispanic “The Street Kids Outreach Ministry - funds will be provided to purchase a van to transport the neediest people to worship service, fellowship and Lutheran Doctrine classes and to purchase Spanish Bibles and small catechisms at Messiah Lutheran Church, Naples, FL. $15,000
10. Moving Hurricane Affected Black Missions Forward - providing aid to the rebuilding the Black Missions in New Orleans, and in Mississippi, LCMS Southern District. $6,000
11. China Lutheran Seminary Building Project – will be funded assist with the building of a seminary in Hsinchu Taiwan. It would be the only seminary in the world instructed in Mandarin Chinese. $2150
12. Christ Lutheran Church, Kathleen/Perry GA – will be provided to assist Christ Lutheran in securing adequate space for worship and outreach with the people of Perry, and Kathleen areas of Houston County, Georgia. $2150
13. Hmong Mission of Central Florida - funds will be provided to assist with the growing Hmong ministry in Central Florida. $2150
Grants 11 12 & 13 tied with the same number of votes, in this case the remaining grant fund is divided evenly between the tied projects.
