1. $30,000 to ship Orphan Grain Train containers of humanitarian aid and religious materials to Africa
and Eastern Europe.

2. $100,000 to develop Ablaze! training programs and materials to assist the Synod in reaching 50 million
people in North America with the Gospel.

3. $51,000 to provide counseling, training, and materials for helping people affected by HIV/AIDS
in Kenya, West Africa.

4. $75,000 to provide additional classrooms at Unity Lutheran Christian Elementary School in East
St. Louis, Ill.

5. $50,000 to identify, recruit, train, and mentor Asian missionaries and evangelists through the Center for
Asian Mission and Evangelism (CAME), Alexandria, Va.

6. $75,000 to train leaders, establish worship communities, and begin youth ministries in southwest Alaska.

7. $32,000 to fund an outreach conference and seminar for directors of blind outreach centers.

8. $84,000 to provide teachers in Sierra Leone.

9. $44,000 to provide education and training for Bible-translation leaders worldwide through Lutheran
Bible Translators, Aurora, Ill.

10. $70,000 to fund church-planting-with-childcare ministries.

11. $100,000 to provide pastoral support, training and outreach materials, and renovations for Hananiah
Lutheran Mission in Buffalo, N.Y.

12. $75,000 to construct a Lutheran Leaders Training Institute in Pakistan.

13. $54,411 to produce the New Testament in Kiswahili braille for blind people in Kenya, Ghana,
Tanzania, and Uganda, East Africa.

14. $80,000 to expand the Leadership Advancement Process outreach training program for lay people
in North America.

15. $100,000 to the Concordia Welfare and Education Society for education, health, and rural
development in China.

16. $100,000 to the Ethnic Immigrant Institute of Theology to begin a training program for deaconesses.

17. A partial grant of $17,089 to support Hispanic outreach in west Houston.

Convention offerings were given and designated as indicated:
* $26,201.80, contributed at Thursday night’s opening worship service, will go toward the LWML 2005-07
mission goal.
* Friday’s $14,880.70 will benefit the “Papyrus Camp” for foster children at Pioneer Camp and Retreat
Center in Angola, New York.
* Saturday’s $18,688.55 will go to “For the Sake of the Church,” a LCMS effort to cover tuition costs
for church-worker students.
* $17,432.88 from Sunday’s closing worship service is slated for the Central American Lutheran Mission
Society to begin mission work in the Dominican Republic.

Saturday morning’s “Joyful Jaunt” mission-pledge walk brought in more than $58,840, which will be used
for the 2005-2007 LWML mission goal.