WELS receives $412,500 grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
APPLETON, Wis. (March 31, 2004) -- The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation has awarded a $412,500 Churchwide Grant to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) to help offset the cost of a variety of projects.
Through the Churchwide Grant Program, the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation provides funds to national church bodies to help fund extraordinary projects and events that impact its mission and ministry.
WELS will use a majority of the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation grant for North American outreach with an emphasis on grass roots participation. Funds will also be used for programs such as an urban ministry experience project, a program to assist Lutheran schools in accreditation and a historical institute to preserve the WELS experience digitally.
“We are grateful that Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation have the ability to benefit the Lutheran church and its members,” said Tim Schwan, the vice president of church and community engagement for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
“We know that the WELS’ leaders will put these funds to good use to have a positive impact on their ministry,” he said.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation Churchwide Grant Program was created to help Lutheran church bodies pursue general and extraordinary projects that impact and support grass roots and results-oriented projects are encouraged.
The program supports projects:
·Sponsored by church body units and that impact the health and vitality of congregations.
·That include church-body events.
·That are considered extraordinary.
·That serve mission congregations or fast-growth congregations
