Oklahoma Disciples Foundation continues to provide grants that make a big difference in Disciples’ communities.
Here are a few more projects where 2019 ODF grant funds are touching lives:
- First Christian Church, Stillwater – young adults mission trip to Jamaica to tutor in local schools, make infirmary and child sponsorship visits and participate in construction and farming projects.
- Christian Church of the Covenant, Enid – delivering fresh fruit biweekly directly to apartment residents (mainly low income senior citizens) in two local complexes.
- First Christian Church, Stillwater – purchase of new equipment and supplies for Adult Daily Living care center as well as supplement materials for marketing outreach.
- Christian Church in Oklahoma and Caminante – scholarships for young adults and disciple ministers to participate in the Caminante Mission in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic.
- Yale Avenue Christian Church, Tulsa – supplying students from a local At-Risk Junior High School with tools and philosophies to build character and better prepare them for their future. Program focuses on study, devotion and visits to three venues: The Oklahoma City National & Memorial Museum; Martin Luther King Memorial Museum at the National Civil Rights Museum and to see “Samson” at the Sight and Sound Theater in Branson.
- Disciples Christian Church, Bartlesville – making a personal connection with and delivering baskets of nutritious food to local elderly people who live in poverty.
- Christian Church in Oklahoma – Mission Camp Roadshow youth summer mission trip to support recovery efforts in Texas across Hurricane Harvey’s impact area.
- Central Christian Church, Enid – school and equipment supplies for multiple Pronoei Schools in Puno, Peru. These schools are the poorest in the area for indigenous children, age 3-5, who were previously not allowed to take entry exams into public primary school.
- United Ministry at the University of Tulsa – activities for monthly Interfaith worship service and community service project during fall semester 2019.
- Christian Church in Oklahoma International Affairs Seminar (IAS) – funding of group meal for IAS participants.
The Foundation holds many worthwhile endowments benefitting the church, the Region and its missions and ministries, including funds for grants. Click this link: “Together We Touch Lives” if you would like to make an honorary or memorial donation to one of these funds.
Blessings,
Eric S. Gray, CAP®
Executive Director