Grant Program
Apply for a Grant to Support a Ministry of Messiah
Scott Erntsmeyer
development director
Grant Recipients
2024
$1000 Continuing Education (Pastor Dustin Lappe)
$2000 Senior Ministry Trip to Mission Central
$1650 Update TVs in Great Hall
$1350 Women’s Ministry Retreat
$3788.94 Give to Messiah Day Gift Match
$500 Common Threads
$1000 2nd Grade Bibles
$1500 Messiah Mission Festival
$800 to Youth Program for a new TV
$1500 to Hospitality for new Wayfinding Signage
$1200 to School Music Program for new resources/equipment
2025
$1000 Continuing Education (Pastor Dustin Lappe)
$3,100 Orphan Grain Train
$250 National Lutheran Schools Week Events
$500 Lutheran Schools Track Meet Sponsorship
$1,200 Messiah Marquee Upgrade
$500 Messiah School Operetta
$750 Nametag Labeling Supplies for VBS
$800 Messiah Hospitality Signs & Umbrellas
$1,300 Messiah School – Personalysis
$300 LWML Lincoln Lutheran Football Box Lunches
$250 Messiah School First Day Celebration
$600 Home in a Box
$1,000 Common Threads
$300 Tuesday Morning Bible Study
$300 Lincoln Lutheran Track & Field
2023
$2500 Prayer Garden Project
$1500 Home in a Box
$300 School Fundraiser
$1500 Volunteer Ministry Celebration
$1700 Youth Room Furniture
$1200 Young Adult Ministry
$1500 Young Leaders Training
$500 Father Son Campout
$800 Podcast Studio Equipment
$625 Wild at Heart Men’s Retreat
$1875 Rapid Response/Disaster Relief
$250 Messiah School Color Run
$462 Momentum Software – MyNinety
$750 Portable Video Camera
$200 Every Man A Warrior
$3000 Give to Messiah Day Gift Match
$3000 Common Threads
$838 Messiah Fall Craft Fair
2024
$1000 Continuing Education (Pastor Dustin Lappe)
$2000 Senior Ministry Trip to Mission Central
$1650 Update TVs in Great Hall
$1350 Women’s Ministry Retreat
$3788.94 Give to Messiah Day Gift Match
$500 Common Threads
$1000 2nd Grade Bibles
$1500 Messiah Mission Festival
$800 to Youth Program for a new TV
$1500 to Hospitality for new Wayfinding Signage
$1200 to School Music Program for new resources/equipment
2025
$1000 Continuing Education (Pastor Dustin Lappe)
$3,100 Orphan Grain Train
$250 National Lutheran Schools Week Events
$500 Lutheran Schools Track Meet Sponsorship
$1,200 Messiah Marquee Upgrade
$500 Messiah School Operetta
$750 Nametag Labeling Supplies for VBS
$800 Messiah Hospitality Signs & Ubrellas
$1,300 Messiah School – Personalysis
$300 LWML Lincoln Lutheran Football Box Lunches
$250 Messiah School First Day Celebration
$600 Home in a Box
$1,000 Common Threads
$300 Tuesday Morning Bible Study
$300 Lincoln Lutheran Track & Field
Ministries the Foundation has supported in the past
- Original and additional Messiah land purchase
- Capital Campaign initiatives
- Building/renovation projects
- Church family fellowship events
- Christ-centered financial education
- Legacy/estate planning resources
- Memorial Prayer Garden
- Future endowment up to $600,000
- Messiah Communications support
- Youth room furnishings
- Home in a Box
- Community outreach projects
- Christian education scholarship support
- Christian education activity support
- Development Director funding
- Lutheran education partnerships
- Concordia colleges partnerships
- Give to Messiah Day
- Pastoral/discipleship education
- Common Threads
- Podcast studio
- Men’s ministry events – Wild at Heart Retreat, Father Son Campout, Every Man a Warrior
- Young adult ministry
- Young leaders training
- Volunteer Ministry Celebration
- Momentum software – MyNinety
- Rapid Response/Disaster Relief
- Messiah Fall Craft Fair