Grants
ACTS of the MNO Grant–Memorial Garden at Abundant Life, Winnipeg
Abundant Life Lutheran Church in Winnipeg has received an ACTS of the MNO Grant to support the creation of a memorial garden. The dream for the memorial garden came from the desire to create a space for members of Abundant Life to be buried in a place of significance...
Southquill Health Area Foodbank Continues to Impact Communities
Contributed by Heather Howdle, Erickson Lutheran Church. The Southquill Health Area Foodbank was a recipient of an ACTS of the MNO Grant News flash update about how Southquill Health Area Foodbank is impacting the communities of Erickson, Onanole, Sandy Lake and...
ACTS of the MNO Grant – Faith Formation Training & Resources
The ACTS of the MNO committee recently approved an application from Candace Kostna for a ministry project focusing on getting additional training for faith formation ministry in light of the realities of the pandemic. Candace most recently served as the Family...
The Millenial Pastors Podcast
The ACTS of the MNO Synod grants committee has approved a grant for Pastors Erik and Courtenay Reedman Parker to begin a podcast addressing the changing landscape of both Lutheranism in Canada and the church and world more broadly. The podcast will begin being...
WOFF applications halted for 2020
The Women of Faith Fund (WOFF) will not be receiving applications for the current year (2020) due to our unprecedented pandemic situation. The WOFF will receive grant applications for the final year of the fund until May 1, 2021. Please visit the elcic.ca website for...
The Margie Kvern Scholarship
In memory of Margie Kvern, this scholarship is for musical people who are sharing their gift of music in our congregations in MNO. MNO Synod is currently taking applications for the 2018 Margie Kvern Scholarship. This scholarship is a partnership between the MNO Synod...
Mission as Hope Appeal
Since this annual appeal began in 2009, it has allowed us to continue funding ongoing mission in our Synod, ministries like Luther Village, Lutheran Urban Ministry, Youth and Young Adult Programming and Cameroon visits. Perhaps even more significantly, it has provided...
ACTS of the MNO Synod
Discerning Your ACTS of the MNO Synod Project For the period 2016-2018, the MNO Synod, like each of the Synods in ELCIC, has been gifted $200,000 from the National Church CECF fund, to use in ways that are unique in each congregation from anything ever tried there...
Compassionate Justice Initiatives – Antipoverty Grants
The MNO Synod receives funding from the ELCIC (given through CLWR gifts) to help enable social justice projects on our territory that seek to address anti-poverty causes and issues in Canada. These funds are to assist church and society groups with endeavours that...
Mission Grants – CECF
Application Deadlines: March 31 and September 30 Does your congregation have some dreams to extend your present ministry of outreach? Each year 90% of the interest earned from the National Church’s “Extension and Capital Fund” (a fund that exists to assist new mission...