ATLANTA – Leawood Baptist Church in Leawood, Kansas, has been awarded an “It’s Time” Missional Ministry grant of $25,000 by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
The grant will help fund two of the church’s ministries. Leawood has made a 20-year commitment to ministry among the Lakota people as part of Warm Embrace, the Fellowship’s mission to the Lakota Reservation near Bridger, South Dakota. Funds will support a garden and fence project, which will allow the Lakota community to grow organic produce for their own use and for sale. Other grant funds will support the Special Needs Enrichment Program and Sibshop, a monthly ministry to provide care for children with special needs and their siblings.
The Fellowship’s Missional Ministry grants resource local congregations as they complete the “It’s Time: A Journey Toward Missional Faithfulness” study and seek to determine how God is calling them to ministry.
“We are pleased that so many of our partnering congregations are catching the missional vision,” said Bo Prosser, the Fellowship’s coordinator for congregational life. “Leawood has cast a vision for missional ministry that will serve their community and God’s kingdom with energy.”
In 2006, the Fellowship received a grant from the Christ is Our Salvation Foundation. A portion of that grant established the “It’s Time Missional Ministry” grant to help CBF partner churches carry out missional ministries. Grants up to $25,000 are available to qualifying churches whose application meets a committee’s approval. Grants are awarded on a one-time basis.
CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. The Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission.