ELCA Ministry with Children Grants
up to $4,000
2025 Applications CLOSED as of June 16th.
ELCA Purpose: Activate each of us, so that more people know the way of Jesus and discover community, justice, and love.
Ministry with Children of the ELCA serves under Christian Community, Leadership and Mission.
Christian Community and Leadership Purpose: Recruit, train, and deploy leaders who will establish and grow Christian Communities
Ministry with Children Grants are for ELCA partners that engage in faith formation with and for children (birth through age 11) that further the ELCA's mission and purpose.
The grant proposal must follow one of the following topics.
Ministry with Children of the ELCA serves under Christian Community, Leadership and Mission.
Christian Community and Leadership Purpose: Recruit, train, and deploy leaders who will establish and grow Christian Communities
Ministry with Children Grants are for ELCA partners that engage in faith formation with and for children (birth through age 11) that further the ELCA's mission and purpose.
The grant proposal must follow one of the following topics.
- ELCA schools and early learning centers that promote the gospel in the week-day ministry setting.
- Ministries reaching out to underserved populations, including but not limited to economically impoverished and Queer communities.
- Training on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as it relates to children.
- Rewilding the classroom by nurturing outdoor awareness, interaction and increased green initiatives.
- Educational materials and resources to help with understanding Lutheranism, the Bible, theology or spirituality.
- Scholarship money for continuing education for lay leaders/staff to attend events vital to their ministry with children.
- Read through Grant Information, above.
- Apply HERE. (scroll down to find the Ministry with Children grant.)
- At the end of a year, provide a video testimony regarding use of the grant money and its impact on your ministry.
*Preference given to first time applicants.
*Full and partial scholarships may be given.
*Full and partial scholarships may be given.
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2023 Grant Recipients Included:
*Building out rooms for children's ministry used by the congregation and community: https://www.wevideo.com/view/3480276803 *Funding for a church to invite a neigboring boy's home to their Family Faith Nights, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k9Kd3MQ2E84Tm3arb3arEyybNIoBKNVf/view?usp=sharing |
*Continuing Education trip in the foosteps of Paul to Greece
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A Sample of the 2024 Grant Receipients Include:
Children of Hope Child Development Center gets new chapel curriculum and continuing education opportunities. (Watch video!)
Reformation Lutheran Church in PA has a video of how the are"rewilding their classrooms." (Watch video!)
Storyline is a community collective and worshipping community in OR that truly does Intergenerational ministry.
*HopeWood, an LOM camp offered resources to Ministry with Children leaders, with an increase in participation by 30%.
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House of Prayer LC, Aliquippa, PA invest in training for inclusion in children's ministries, enhancing reources and providing inclusive events.
Christ the King Lutheran Church and Preschool, Snohomish WA - offered a Creation Camp VBS
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*Support for a Sensory Trail for a Community Park in CO (below.)
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