Alleluia Fund
The Diocese of Nebraska Alleluia Fund for Growing Our Church provides funding for a variety of ministries that have been beyond the financial resources of individual congregations but are vital to the mission of growing the diocese. The Alleluia Fund is an ongoing process of discerning mission opportunities. Episcopalians statewide are giving to and benefiting from the Alleluia Fund. Your vision today could be a mission tomorrow.
Every Easter season, the Diocese of Nebraska Alleluia Fund for Growing Our Church makes its unique appeal to all the members of our diocese. No other fund has this statewide focus on pporting ministries that have been beyond the resources of individual congregations but vital to the mission of growing the diocese. No other fund can do what the Alleluia Fund does: Every dollar donated is matched by a special grant from the Clarkson Foundation. Your gift to the Alleluia Fund is automatically doubled. The Alleluia Fund renews and blesses ministries across the state. Please join this coordinated effort to answer God's call and help grow our church!
The Alleluia Fund renews and blesses ministries across the state. Please join this coordinated effort to answer God's call and help grow our church!
Youth and Young Adult Ministries
• Peer Ministry training for young people
• Helping parishes partner together for youth programs
• Support for youth mission trips
• Support for a Northeastern Deanery youth coordinator
• Support for a Diocesan youth coordinator
Revitalization of Existing Parishes
• Program supporting new clergy and parishes in transition
• Funding special parish projects across the diocese
• Program supporting clergy family wellness
• Natural Church Growth programs in every deanery
• A missioner for St. John's in Valentine to support Total Ministry
• Support for parishes attending church growth conferences
Outreach
• A multicultural missioner for Lexington to work with the growing Latino population
• Support for the Kachipo mission in Sudan
• Support for numerous parish mission teams to the Dominican Republic
• Special grants to rebuild Episcopal churches damaged by Hurricane Katrina
Planting New Churches
Efforts continue to provide land for new church plants in fast-growing areas of the diocese. The Alleluia Fund makes it possible for this diocese to invest ahead of the growth to have prime sites for new churches ready to serve rapidly expanding populations.
Alleluia Fund in 2008: Your Gifts in Action Statewide
Recently the Executive Commission of the Diocese of Nebraska awarded several Alleluia Fund grants that will help a wide variety of ministries across the diocese.
A grant to St. Paul's in Arapahoe and St. Elizabeth's in Holdrege will help support revitalizing ministries within the two parishes.
St. Martin of Tours, Omaha received a grant to help the church continue to recover and reach out to the community of South Omaha.
A grant for Natural Church Development is sending out "coaches" to help revitalize parishes throughout the state.
The Fresh Start Program received a grant to help parishes and clergy who are in a time of transition.
A grant to the Diocesan Commission on Stewardship will provide materials and help send representatives to the TENS Conference for training.
Aother grant is sending Deanery Youth Coordinators and other youth leaders to a faith formation conference.
St. Monica's Home is getting help with a funding crisis for its important Adolescent Girls Program.
All of these grants were made possible from the generous giving of parishioners from across the diocese. Would you also please consider making a gift to help the Alleluia Fund grow the Diocese of Nebraska. Remember, your gift automatically doubles in value because of a special grant from the Bishop Clarkson Episcopal Foundation.
