2023 Ministry Seed Grant Winners
This has been an exciting time for Christian Global Outreach Ministries, we had our first cycle of ministry seed grants awarded to 15 of our active ministers who are working tirelessly to do as God has called. From one person serving meals to seniors to teams of people doing global, prison, family and other ministries, the depth of service for this round was humbling to us and our advisory grant award committee. Our grant award totaled $7700 for this round.
CGOM is blessed to have a growing community of ministers all over the US and the world who are actively engaged in ministry. During our current grant cycle we had 189 ministries that applied for funding. We want to take a moment to thank those ministries for their amazing work as well. Please watch for our next round of funding.
Each applicant provided a 90 sec video introduction of themselves and other media highlighting their ministry work. Please take a moment to encourage these amazing ministers in the comments below.
Minister Alice Smith
Radio Project
The Welcome Home broadcast has been on television for almost 7 years. It can be seen on Lightsource.org Oneplace.org, Google home , Alexa , Spotify or any podcast platform. It reaches 9 million people. We have 24 hour prayer line. We have seen Salvations deliverance healing directions for the people God is continuing to move and spreading the message of Jesus Christ to the world. Welcome Home just started airing in radio station in Nashville Tennessee. Praise God!
The Seed Grant will fund the new project for radio station in Nashville Tennessee
Contact info:
www.welcomehomewithalicesmith.com
WelcomehomewithAliceSmith@gmail.com
Minister Carole Anne Cole
London Outreach Ministry
In 2004 I was led to begin Big Fish 117 Ministries, following my conversion in 2002. I had an unchurched background, but on several occasions was a recipient of both care and prayer, from a small community church nearby in my home town in London UK After my salvation, I had a natural passion to reach people from a similar background with the gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. So in a very basic and simple way began going on to a local housing estate, speaking with children and began talking in a simple way, about The Lord. This ministry grew incredibly and after a year or so, many of the youth and mums would visit my home, where we shared meals, the message and Bible studies.
Our mission phrase is “No one should be hungry & No one should be homeless” . Applying this – as to the word of God, being the bread of life and Heavenly eternity with The Lord – as a forever home for those who will believe.
The grant funds will be spent on tracts, Leaflets, travel (trains, buses ) possible materials, visibility boards, printing supplies.
Contact Info
Minister Charles Dickinson
Sherriff Chaplain Training
We are ministering to the homeless in Tulsa and building a Chaplain program for a county in the Tusa area. I have been a Firefighter Chaplain for 13yrs.
The grant funds would help cover cost of supplies. We are starting from scratch. Everything needed comes from my pocket. We need supplies for Emergencies and Mental health first aid training, and other Chaplain training.
Contact info
Minister Christopher R. McCall
Global Missionaries
We are missionaries with Youth With A Mission. As missionaries, we raise all of our funding for life and ministry. We have been serving with YWAM since Jan 2017. Locally, in Kona, I lead the Schools of Worship within our University of the Nations arm of YWAM. We run three schools a year. This Upper Level School, is three months of lecture phase and then three months field assignments all across the globe. In 2022 we saw 1,874 gospel seeds sown, 645 decisions go follow Christ, Bible distribution throughout southern Mexico, and more. We’ve been apart of Bible distribution in Myanmar and the Himalayas in Nepal. Our current focus is to see scripture songs written in languages that are currently having the Bible translated. We are partnering with Oral Bible Translation/Oral Mother Tongue translation efforts to give training to local musicians, write these scripture songs, record them, and send them back to the people groups on SD cards along with the Oral Translation of the Bible.
The grant will be spent towards travel expenses for these global projects.
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Minister Daniel Evans
Prison Ministry
Originally Harvest of Life was incorporated in Texas by its founder Rev. Murl Gwynn. We are currently obeying His call into the prisons of North Florida for the purpose of evangelizing and discipling those who are incarcerated. In the seven years Dan Evans has recruited over 75 volunteers that are not all part of one church, but over 10 churches in the community! Harvest of Life conducts worship services in 17 different institutions monthly and Harvest of Life teaches weekly in 3 different institutions.
If granted, the funds would be used to help support our ongoing mission of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our brothers and sisters in blue who are incarcerated not only in State Institutions but also Federal.
The funds will be used to help offset the cost of purchasing and shipping Bibles to our Hispanic brothers being held in ICE facilities awaiting their deportation back to their home countries. The funds would also be used to help offset the cost of purchasing Bibles, books, and devotionals for those giving their hearts and lives to Jesus during our alter calls in our worship services.
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Minister Delbert James Hill
Recovery House
Twenty years ago, my wife and I experienced a transformation through Jesus because of some marital problems. The Lord showed us His mercy and kindness in that time of correcting and bringing us back together, and he also showed us the importance of family. Since then, we have sought to offer family to those around us who need it, and our “family” has grown into a full time ministry for both of us!
The first ministry home we moved into is a 13 -bedroom old veterans home. God provided it miraculously, and it has been a wonderful home to us! However, as the home was enlarged to create more homes for veterans in years past, the septic system for the house was not also updated
The funds will be used toward the design, permit and install of updates to the home. So far we have received $15,000 in local donations to this end. The experts we are working with assure us that the system will cost at least $47,000, so we have a $32,000 gap. We are hoping to get this paid for and installed before winter this year (we are in Ohio and can only install septic systems till October at the latest), so that next summer our kids can play outside without fear of getting sick!
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Minister Dickson Wasake
Testimony Website
In 2017, after being a prodigal son for about 20 years, I had a radical encounter with the Lord Jesus. I got baptized and then started on a journey to know the Lord. The Lord commissioned me to start a global ministry that collects testimonies and verifies them. To date we have 88 testimonies and we have 9 staff working with me, with a goal of having 50,000 testimonies in line with our 5 year vision. The testimonies together with our global ministry partnership network we are developing will spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. At present the 9 staff are in countries such as: India, Pakistan, Cameroon and Uganda and we work with ministry coordinators in each country to collect these testimonies and our goal is to collect at least 5 testimonies per month from each of the 195 countries.
The project is purchase of video recording equipment for our country coordinators to collect testimonies of what God is doing in their country. This will be shared on our social media platforms.
The grant funds will be used to purchase video equipment, notably for Pakistan where our Pakistan coordinator is working with rural communities some of whom are illiterate and so video is the best way to capture testimonies.
Contact Info
Minister Douglas Keesey
Creates Bible videos acted out orally in the language of the learner. (Specifically people with no written language)
OneMessage.tv has a mission to reach the heart of every oral learner with the Word of God. Our vision is to accelerate the spread of the Gospel to the hardest-to-reach people groups in the world. Bible stories are acted out by native people in their own language and recorded by us so that those tribes who may not have a written language are still able to understand the Gospel.
Our current project is a video Bible story library for the Isan people of Northeastern Thailand. It will be recorded in two trips, filming 4 days each time, for a total of 8 days. (Dividing recording into two trips minimizes the amount of time the indigenous actors must take away from their regular job responsibilities.) Each trip will cost about $26,500, for a total of $53,000 to $54,000 to complete the Thai video Bible story library.
The seed grant from Christian Global Outreach Ministries will help us meet half of the expense of video production equipment rental for one trip, as it costs us $550/day to rent equipment. One trip’s video rental expense is $550 x 4, or $2,200.
Contact Info
paul@onemessage.tv
doug@onemessage.tv
Minister Gary R. Pettet
Training Church Planters
My wife and I are common people, commissioned by the Lord Jesus Christ to Equip national pastors and churches to Evangelize the lost in their communities and to Establish new multiplying churches in Zimbabwe. We have a passion to see our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ discover what God will do through His children as we obediently follow Him in pursuit of our Great Commission assignment to disciple the nations.
The grant funds received will be exclusively used for training pastors to plant healthy, multiplying, transformative churches in their communities. Specifically, printing training materials, some of the expenses to join the training event, simple lunches during training days.
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Minister Gregory S. Anderson
Greif Support Training
I have been an Elder at my church for many years often praying with those in need of prayer and speaking with those who need encouragement in their faith. I also am asked to officiate at funerals – often for those who do not have a church home. I always try during these services to offer comfort to the grieving and hope that is found through Jesus.
Grief Share only works through local churches. My church, the Hibbing Alliance Church, has agreed to allow us to use their facilities and to help us to purchase the materials. However, since there was no budgeted monies this year for this ministry, they have asked us to try to find sources of funding to reimburse the church for this expense.
The grant funds will be used to cover the cost for this ministry.
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Ministers Heather & Georgre G. Ellison
Medical/Food Missions
Our ministry was started in 2008 as a way of taking team members from all denominations and churches to Guatemala to provide food, medicine and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Since then, we have grown and have purchased property and built a feeding center in a small town. At the feeding center, 50+ children are provided a home cooked meal three days a week along with spiritual education in God’s Word. We continue to take teams 2-3 times a year to Guatemala as well to provide for physical and spiritual needs. Along the way, God continues to open doors at home in and around our local community and in other countries for us to preach His Word.
Our current needs are great and the vision that God has given is tremendous. We are currently working on redrilling a well on the property in El Tejar, Guatemala.
100% of all funds go directly to Guatemala and the work there. We would use funds to first assist in completing the wall and help us start the process of the new well. Feeding the 50+ children is also an ongoing expense. It costs $45 month per child.
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Minister Jocelyn Menguita Agpalo
Missions to provide glasses to those in need.
I’ve been doing mission in outreach in the northern island of Luzon in the Philippines. I used to go home every 6 months or when health and budget available dictates. I’ve been administering to villages for my “Share A Little Light Ministry and Outreach” thru reading glasses and used prescription glasses coupled with prayer ministry as I do home visit from house to house. I currently supply flip flops, school supplies and food items in ministry. I started this school supplies ministry and food ministry for the children along the seashore. There is too much scarcity of food. Most families are lacking of food and every children I saw were mal-nourished and under-weight. And mostly they are short and lacking of school supplies.
Grant funds will be used to continue to buy reading glasses , school supplies , food , flipflop/slippers and paying for the cargo box or shipment of item to the Philippines.
Contact Info
Minister Kelly Hurtt
Friday Food and Faith Mission
In March of 2023 we started a ministry that we call Friday Fellowship. We invite anyone in our community to come together and share a meal. We are able to serve people who might not otherwise be able to have a meal and those who just want to come and enjoy fellowship with others. We also make hygiene items and clothing available to those who might need them.
Our ministry provides a hot meal to the community. We are also able to meet basic needs like hygiene items and clothing. It also opens the door to share the gospel and pray for others.
The money from this grant will be used to purchase food to serve at the Friday Fellowship meal, plates, plastic silverware, napkins, disposable pans gloves for our servers to wear and hygiene items to hand out to any of our guests who need them.
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Minister Marion Platt III
Transitional Housing and Resources
Since 1904, Star Gospel Mission has specialized in providing those facing homelessness with safe, comfortable and affordable transitional housing in a Christ-centered setting. Our guests have an opportunity to experience a new beginning amd fresh start! In short, at Star Gospel Mission, they can get their lives back on track. We take in men just as they are, with a wide range of education, economics, faiths, racial and cultural backgrounds. That’s where the work of Jesus Christ begins! Star Gospel Mission believes that spirituality is an essential part of the healing process for men facing homelessness and addiction.
50%: The majority of the funds will be used to purchase Celebrate Recovery materials, such as the curriculum, workbooks, and other resources. These materials are essential for running a Celebrate Recovery group, and they provide participants with the tools they need to work through their recovery program.
25%: Twenty-five percent of the funds will be used to cover the costs of running the Celebrate Recovery group, such as utilities, and refreshments. These costs are necessary to ensure that the group can meet regularly and provide a safe and supportive environment for participants.
The remaining 25% will be used to train leaders who can facilitate Celebrate Recovery groups. This is important because leaders play a critical role in the success of the program.
Contact Info
Minister Serlena Parks
Meals for Seniors
Since January 1,2023 we have been providing studies, prayers and ministering on line to help others understand their relationship with God and how much they are loved. We have an event planned for August 20th to support families for back to school. Unfortunately we just started January of this year. I was inspired by the CGOM Boundless Summit (Opryland-Nashville) held last year.
We want to be able to provide meals to show them the love of God. If they have not received God, we want to make sure we offer God to them before they come to the end of life.
Funds will be used to provide meals to elderly and vulnerable. We have an elderly communities with seniors on fixed income. We would prepare meals and deliver them as often as possible more so closer to the end of month. We plan to go door to door speaking with individuals to determine there needs share the word of God and Meals
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Congratulations again to each of these amazing ministry leaders. We hope that their stories inspire you to change your community as well. Our next round of funding will begin in Early Spring 2024.
As always, Serve Admirably!
Team CGOM
Our mission is to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Christian Global Outreach Ministries is devoted to equipping Christians to spread the Gospel throughout the ends of the earth.
It is our heart to provide information, community, and ordination support to strengthen ministers and spread the message of Jesus Christ.
Our foundation is Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”.
Amazing ministers like you help us to get it done!
Serve Admirably!
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