Are you planning ahead? Here is a link to the December 2025 resources for LWML Mission Grant #5.
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The Perpetual Call for Pastors and Teachers
2025–2027 Mission Grant 4 — $100,000
The heart of Set Apart To Serve (SAS) is the formation of church workers to ensure that LCMS continues to proclaim and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our congregations and communities until Christ returns. Pastors and professional church workers are indispensable to accomplishing each of the Synod's seven mission priorities.Set Apart to Serve is a Synod-wide program focused on forming and recruiting full-time pastors and church workers. Supplying the church with church workers is one of the highest priorities of the LCMS, since pastors and commissioned church workers preach and teach the Word of Christ through which the Holy Spirit creates and sustains faith. The demand for more pastors, Lutheran school teachers, and commissioned church workers is urgent.
Set Apart to Serve is providing resources to encourage intentional conversations with youth to pursue a church work vocation. This is leading to increased enrollment in the church worker formation programs at the LCMS Concordia universities and the seminaries. Districts and churches are being encouraged to reach out to their youth through workshops and conferences.
This grant will help to cover a part of the expenses of creating resources, travel and presentations at workshops and conferences, and staffing.
Resources for Grant #4
- Mission Grant Story PDF
- Prayer Guide PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #4
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October 2025
Due to the number of grants this biennium, this month there are two grants featured!
Regional Disaster Response LERT Shower Trailers
2025–2027 Mission Grant 1 — $81,500
Disaster preparedness is a priority of LCMS Disaster Response. Mercy in Action, which includes Lutheran Early Response Team (LERT) training, is a program designed to help train congregations to respond when tragedy strikes and includes bible studies on mercy, charity and human care. To
date, LERT has trained more than 18,000 Lutheran volunteers in disaster relief and response with more than 50 LERT Disaster Response equipment trailers utilized by all 35 LCMS districts.Lutheran Early Response Teams (LERT) serve thousands of individuals and families who are suffering from loss in the wake of disasters like hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, fires, and tornadoes. When deployed, LERT teams traditionally use congregations in the disaster areas as their base camps. The host congregations provide a place for the LERT teams to sleep, eat, rest, recover, and receive spiritual care during their time of service. Host congregations are incredible to work with as the teams help them rebuild their communities and share the life-changing message of the Gospel.
One challenge for team members has been the lack of showers and laundry facilities at a host church. LERT members have showered at national gym chains, in members’ homes, in personal campers, or even under cold garden hoses. This grant will fund half the cost of two combination bathroom/shower/laundry trailers to be used during disaster response work.
Resources for Grant #1
- Mission Grant Story PDF
- Prayer Guide PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #1
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Portable Laundry Trailer
2025–2027 Mission Grant 3 — $100,700
Interior photo of the laundry trailerWhen disasters strike, Forged by Fire Services, a disaster response organization of the LCMS Southern District, is deployed to the Gulf Coast Region and beyond. Sharing the hope in Christ, they provide human care to the victims, volunteers, and first responders affected by natural and man-made disasters. After a disaster, one of the needs of the people and volunteers are clean clothes, but there may be no facility for laundry service available.
Forged by Fire Services would like to provide laundry service by obtaining a professionally built eight-station laundry trailer with all the supporting equipment. The laundry trailer would be set up in the parking lot of an LCMS church. When offering the service, the LERT trained volunteers have an opportunity to talk to the people about the grace, mercy, and love of Jesus Christ. This grant will provide funds for the purchase of the portable laundry trailer.
Resources for Grant #3
- Mission Grant Story PDF
- Prayer Guide PDF
Large Print Resources for Grant #3
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Mission Grants Historical Map
To God be the glory!
Since our first mission grant in 1943, funded through your mite offerings, Lutheran Women in Mission has shared the Gospel in 84 countries … and counting.
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September 2025
Help for Ukraine’s Orphans and Displaced Persons
2025–2027 Mission Grant 2 — $100,000
Boxes of materials sent by Orphan Grain Train ready to be opened and distributed. All are categorized and labeled so people know what is in them.Orphan Grain Train (OGT) has been involved in humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the war began. In the past year, seventeen shipments of donated food, clothing, and medical supplies were sent to various locations in the Ukraine. OGT is assisting twelve orphanages in the Kherson area and three orphanages in the Kyiv area. OGT is working with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine and other Christian churches as it distributes the aid.
The impact the donations have is both lifesaving and soul-saving. The donated supplies assist people who have lost all their worldly goods and help children whose parents have been killed in the war. Through acts of mercy shown by followers of Jesus, recipients see the love of God.
This grant will cover the cost of shipping up to seven containers loaded with food, clothing, and medical supplies to the country of Ukraine.
Mission Grant Resources
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