2025β2027 Mission Grant 22
Redeeming Life New Moms and Babies Transition Home
Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries, Illinois β $100,000
About This Mission Grant
Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries is a pro-life ministry that cares for single pregnant women who are in crisis because of an unexpected pregnancy and who lack the support of a spouse or family. The ministry cares for women whether they choose to place their baby for adoption or to keep and parent their child.Β
The Redeeming Life Maternity Home in East Dundee, Illinois, opened in 2024 and has several women in residence. These women hear the life-giving Gospel message as they receive care that focuses on faith, family, and education.Β
Now there is a need for a transition home where women who graduate from the maternity home may receive ongoing support and critical services to ensure stability and future independence for themselves and their babies.
The grant will fund the property surveys, architectural designs, required permits, and the start of construction for the new transition home.
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Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries serves expectant mothers, welcoming them and their preborn babies, throughout their pregnancies. The Christ-centered love and care for these women and children continues after the child is born as these young families are welcomed and discipled through new parenthood.
[Pictured, left to right: Aileen,* Blanca,* Caliyah,* and Deena*, with their young children at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Sanford, Florida - *pseudonyms used for privacy]
More Mission Grant Photos
A labor born out of Christian compassion, Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries works to serve the Lord with gladness, alongside sisters in Christ of the LWML, who have allowed this mission to expand, now serving mothers and children in Illinois.
[Pictured, left to right: RLOM Director of Mission Advancement Julia Heinz, RLOM Executive Director Sheryl DeWitt, LWML President Eden Keefe, and LWML Public Relations Director Debbie Yocky at the 2023 LCMS National Convention in Milwaukee]
Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries shares the mission of this life affirming ministry with LCMS churches and schools, many of whom respond to the opportunity to support this help of serving single mothers and their babies, by donating goods, volunteer hours, and like this Lutheran school - chapel offerings.
[Pictured, left to right: RLOM Director of Mission Advancement Julia Heinz, and two Lutheran school students, Mia and Trevor]
A lot of love and effort went into getting the new Illinois maternity home ready to open, with individuals and groups sponsoring rooms to provide furnishings, appliances, and dΓ©cor, curated by staff. The women of host church, Immanuel Lutheran stocked the eat in kitchen with new dishes, linens, and appliances.
[Pictured: Immanuel Lutheran Church member Barbara Jo Bowers]
Everything about the safe space for mom and baby reflects God's love - a Bible donated to each woman by Concordia Publishing House, bedside devotionals, comfortable amenities, and beautiful art centering on His Word.
[Pictured: RLOM Director of Mission Advancement Julia Heinz]
There's a Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries national support staff, but on-site the mothers and babies have the dedicated care and attention of a live-in house mom and an LCMS Deaconess.
[Pictured: RLOM Illinois Program Manager Deaconess Sarah Rusche]
What a joy it is at Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries when each new baby is brought into the world, and what joy there is in Heaven when we welcome these precious children into the family of God!
[Pictured, left to right: Rev. Edward DeWitt, Edyta* and her newborn child, RLOM Executive Director Sheryl DeWitt at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Sanford, Florida - *pseudonym used for privacy]
