Ministry Seed Grant Recipients – September 2023
In September we were able to award our first ever CGOM Ministry Seed Grants.
Of the 189 amazing ministries that applied, the following ministries received grants totaling over $7500 to continue the great work that they are doing for the Kingdom of God.
Please take a moment to encourage these amazing ministers in the comments below.
We hope this inspires you in your calling as well.
If you are interested in applying for the next round of funding, visit the link below.
Minister Alice Smith
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 funds will be used for the new project for radio station in Nashville Tennessee
Contact Info:
www.welcomehomewithalicesmith.com
Minister Carole Anne Cole
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.
Our focus is always to share the gospel and have increased our mission and frequency, understanding the urgency and prophetic timing that the church and the unsaved face. 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. For our summer extended missions, to the south and south west coastal towns and target areas of London where we know there are huge numbers of street homeless, addicts and people who are spiritually crippled.
Literally our project will be using the time wisely to proclaim the gospel and fulfill our assignment to fish for men. This is an exciting outreach and all the more because each of the team have a testimony to their own salvation and have a huge heart for the lost to hear the Good news while there is still freedom to preach in the UK. Huge thanks for making this available, God bless you from us in the UK.
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Minister Charles Dickinson
We are ministring 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.
Chaplain program for a Sheriff’s Dept. 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.
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Minister Chris McCall
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.
This would help to fund my travel to these places as I do my Pastoral visits. The money would be spent towards my travel expenses of which I have many for these global projects.
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Minister Daniel Evans
Originally Harvest of Life was incorporated in Texas by its founder Rev. Murl Gwynn. I intended purpose at the time was to record the Bible in indigenous languages and dialects so missionaries could use the tape recordings in remote villages of Latin America and Africa for evangelism.
We have been blessed to preach and show our “passion for the Christ” to the inmates of various State Institutions, private prisons and Federal Facilities in North Florida. Harvest of Life is grateful for the opportunity to represent you in the Prisons of North Florida.
Now He is calling us to come up a little higher and He wants to begin another chapter of His story in our lives. The Evans met Dan & Marilyn Nase almost 20 years ago through a Spanish acquaintance.
The funds would 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 Delber James Hill
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! It is still a walk of faith, but back in 2021 we moved into a 13-bedroom on faith, and became “The Covering” ministry.
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. We found this out by finding the system overflowing into the backyard last summer. Not a fun experience! Since then, we have been working with local experts to design, approve and install a new septic system.
We are trusting the Lord to provide for this expense and care for each person who has chosen to call this home. The funds would be used toward the design, permit and install of a new design at the Big House. 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 to install, 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
In 2017, after being a prodigal son for about 20 years, I had a radical encounter with the Lord Jesus. I got baptised and then started on a journey to know the Lord. Since then, I have currently 80 people I’m taking through reading the Bible in one year.
In addition 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
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. We currently have 1,600 YouTube subscribers.
We would 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. He is for example working with a pastor who works slaves/indentured workers in the brick kilns of Pakistan. The photos in the next section show the pastor, the ministry coordinator and the equipment we need.
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Minister Douglas Keesey
OneMessage.tv’s mission is 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.
The idea of video Bible stories first began when my business partner (Paul Wynn) joined a mission trip to Colombia with his church. The missionary there tapped Paul’s video skills to create Bible stories about Jesus, using the children of the indigenous people as actors. The stories were then narrated in the language of the people group. The people responded because the videos looked and sounded like them. The missionary said this people group had never heard a video of any kind in their own tongue.
After viewing our Samburu, Kenya videos on the OneMessage.tv website, the Thai pastors knew they wanted to ask for a project for the Isan. They said, This is the first time we have ever seen local people acting out the Gospel. OneMessage.tv has unique tools that we need in Thailand!” The video Bible story library for the Isan people of Northeastern Thailand 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 $1,000 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.
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Minister Gary Pettet
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.
We are focusing on training national pastors to plant healthy, multiplying community transforming churches.
Any funds we might receive from this grant would be used exclusively for training Zimbabwean church leaders to establish new home churches.
Any funds received would 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 Anderson
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. A friend of mine (a former school counselor and fellow believer) are preparing to start a grief support group this fall in our town. Currently, there is not a grief support group being offered in our town. We will be using the Grief Share format.
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 not 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.
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Minister Heather & George Ellison
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.
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. We had two working wells and both of those were drilled by a ministry for us. But both wells have gone dry and we have been advised that the wells must but redrilled and go much deeper. The cost for the new well will be approximately $68,000. We are also working to build a wall around our recently purchased property.
We were able to purchase property surrounding our current feeding center/mission house property and we are under construction to build the wall and secure the property.
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
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 often called it the “gift of sight”.
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. Some are writing on ground with a dried stick when the land is not wet in order for them to learn our songs and poems. I started out this slipper/flipflop ministry for children who walks to school lots of miles on thorny roads without anything on their feet.
I am praying for your kind hearts to include this families and children in your prayers and resources from God-chosen like you whoever who has the heart to help these children and families. A gift of sight thru reading glasses and used prescription glasses share a little light ministry. Food for the hungry children ministry.
The Grant will be used for Slipper/Flipflop ministry for tired feet, School supplies ministry. For buying reading glasses , for buying school supplies , for buying food like cookies and cup noodles, for buying school supplies, for buying flipflop/slippers. and paying the cargo box or shipment if I send this item to the Philippines.
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Minister Kelly Hurtt
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.
We provide a meal for anyone who wants to come but we also create relationships with people, share the love of Jesus with them and pray with 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 would 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
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 a 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. This is 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. The mission’s staff members are committed to helping men find hope and restoration through their relationship with Jesus Christ. Star Gospel Mission is requesting the Seed Grant fund the purchase of Celebrate Recovery Materials and Programs.
The majority of the funds would 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 would 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:
marion.platt@stargospelmission.org
Minister Serlena Parks
We started January 1st 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.
Since ordained by Christian Global Outreach I have performed funeral service, and have had the opportunity to minister to others and pray the prayer of salvation with them.
Plan to provide meals to Senior living housing. While our Seniors can still get a round, some of them have health issues. It makes it difficult to cook sometimes. We want to be able to provide meals from time to time and show them the love of God.
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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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”.
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