Special ministry grants to be recommended to the May 8, 2000 Congregational Meeting

The funds are dispersed to the following categories:
  • Benevolence
  • Capital Improvements
  • Special Ministries
On April 11, the Special Ministry Grant Task Force made the following grant recommendations totalling $19,500 to the Cabinet:

BENEVOLENCE
    $2,000 LSS/Teen Safe House (shelter for homeless youth)
    $500 W/ELCA Pin Project (fund-raising program)
    $2,250 New Lutheran Mission Outreach (ministry in Columbia)
    $750 Arabic Christian Studies (ministry in Jordan)
    $1,000 Lutheran Campus Ministry (music at St. Paul campus)

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
    $5,000 Liturgical and narthex furniture and office furniture (for several church offices)
    $1000 Office equipment (main church office)

SPECIAL MINISTRIES
    $1,500 Hymnbooks (additional copies of With One Voice)
    $500 Augsburg College of the 3rd Age (educational program)
    $2,000 Daily Work (cooperative ministry for underemployed members of Lutheran congregations)
    $2,500 Parish Nurse Program funds (programming)

The Cabinet has approved these recommendations.
As a final step in the process, the congregation will vote on these recommendations at the Annual Meeting on May 8, 2000.

If you have any questions, or comments, on the Special Ministry Grant program, please contact any of the task force members listed below.

Thank you.

Fritz Morlock, Nate Morris, Roald Sateren, Marv Schindler, Gloria Sweet and Curt Thormodsgaard.

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