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CNH MISSIONS

Helping God’s people advance the Kingdom throughout the region by equipping, networking, and resourcing.

CNH Missions advances the Gospel by establishing new churches and outreach efforts in underserved regions. Supporting missions and mission plants allows us to partner in God’s work, sharing resources to expand His Kingdom, transform lives, and bring the message of Christ to those who have not yet heard it. Please continue to keep CNH District Missions in your prayers.

Mission Grant Opportunities

MINI GRANTS

PURPOSE: Investing in the priesthood of believers to spark “life-on-life” Gospel connections in communities throughout the CNH District. Covering the following three areas:

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  • Spark Mini Grants: Empowering congregations to reach out to their communities (APPLY NOW)

  • Short Term Mission Trip Scholarship: Provide lay people the opportunity to be involved in a focused immersive mission experience

  • Lay Leadership Training Scholarship: Training, experiential learning, and/or other leadership development opportunities that support the learning and development of Christian Laity.

NEW MINISTRY START

PURPOSE: Planting or Replanting a Word and Sacrament LCMS Congregation (Faith Community) OR Start a New Mission and/or Ministry (Catalyst Grant)

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  • Catalyst Grant: A new mission and/or ministry that is not immediately centered on Word and Sacrament but comes alongside Word and Sacrament ministry. May include starting a New Lutheran Pre-School, Lutheran Elementary School, Lutheran High School, Lutheran Organization, New Christ Based Social Service Mission/ Ministry (APPLY NOW)

  • Faith Community Grant: Grants will be considered for mission starts that have at their core a commitment to disciple people in the Christian (Lutheran) faith through service and witness to their neighborhood or city, always with an eye toward formation of a new Word and Sacrament community. Church plants may include church re-plants when a former congregation’s organization is replaced with new direction, purpose and leadership in order to respond evangelistically to the present and future community with the Gospel message.

Services and outreach are conducted in at least 13 languages throughout the district.

  • Addis Kidan, San Francisco, CA (Ethiopian, Eritrean)

  • Bethlehem, Berkeley, CA (Oromo)

  • Church For All Nations, San Francisco, CA (Multiple)

  • Faith, South San Francisco, CA (Chinese)  

  • First Immanuel, San Jose, CA (Spanish)

  • Good Shepherd, Hayward, CA (Eritrean, Spanish)

  • Good Shepherd, Honolulu, HI (Palauan)

  • Grace Lutheran, El Cerrito, CA (Oromo)

  • Grace Pittsburg, CA (Spanish)

  • Grace Visalia, CA (Lahu)

  • Holy Spirit, San Francisco, CA (Cantonese, English, Mandarin - new)

  • St. Paul Hmong Hmong Outreach

  • Redeemer, Fresno, CA

  • St. Paul, Merced, CA

  • Memorial Chapel for the Deaf, Fremont, CA

  • Messiah, Santa Cruz, CA (Chinese)

  • Mt. Zion, Richmond, CA (Spanish)

  • Our Savior, Aiea, HI (Multiple)

  • Peace Lutheran, Fresno, CA (Hmong)

  • Prince of Peace, Fremont, CA (Multiple)

  • San Juan Valle de Fe, Arvin, CA (Spanish)

  • St. John’s Bakersfield, CA (Spanish)

  • St. John’s, Napa, CA (Spanish)

  • St. Paul, Mountain View, CA (Spanish)

  • Trinity Watsonville, CA (Spanish)

  • Trinity, San Jose, CA (Spanish)

  • The Mission Agency continues to support the Hispanic Circuit of Pastors by providing funds for a point person to lead and organizational support.

How to Get Involved

CNH District Mission/Prayer Coordinator

 

Are you interested in being a prayer coordinator? Here is what a coordinator does:

 

  • Represent their congregation and the CNH District in their mission efforts

  • Develop a list of contact people in each church in their circuit who can help to publicize mission information.

  • Promote publications: In Mission, CNH Mission Prayer Newsletter, videos, etc. / sharing of prayer requests for congregational prayer in worship and/or with the congregation’s prayer chain.

  • Personally pray for and speak well of their church, District, and the interests, personnel, and ministries of the Mission Agency.

  • Participate in quarterly mission update, prayer, and phone meetings.

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CNH District Mission Advocate

 

Mission Advocates are trained and equipped for the territory they are assigned. The advocates share the mission story of the CNH District, and they help people to see that they, too, can help spread the good news of the Gospel through their gifts. They are people devoted to prayer who are gifted as encouragers in Christ’s church.

 

For more information, please email Renee Lawrence. 

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