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2001
Bernthal Grants Go to 33 Congregations
In 2001, the Bernthal Fund awarded grants totaling
$148,000 to 33 congregations across the country. The grantees are listed below in alphabetical
order by state.
ELCA=Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
LCMS=Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod |
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California
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Fresno, CA
Rev. William Knezovich
Award: $5,000
Our Savior's will hire an immigrant outreach and intake coordinator
who will refer immigrants to existing church-based programs and directly
assist with the youth and family ministry.
Florida
St. Michael's Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Ft. Meyers, FL
Rev. Jon Zehnder
Award: $5,000
A new Amigos Center will be opened at St. Michael's Lutheran Church,
which plans to hire a BIA accredited representative to provide direct
legal services, as well as to offer ESL and Spanish classes.
Salem Haitian Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Lake Worth, FL
Rev. Elie Louissaint
Award: $4,000 ($5,000 in 2000)
This project will continue a mentoring program to assist newly arriving
Hatians with basic needs such as finding temporary housing and jobs,
and enrolling in ESL classes.
Illinois
Purna Jiwan—Abundant Life South Asian Ministries
(ELCA)
Chicago, IL
Rev. Dr. Eardley Mendis
Award: $5,000
Abundant Life will open a South Asian Service Center in Chicago to
meet community needs.
Iowa
La Voz de Esperanza (ELCA)
Des Moines, IA
Rev. Richard Peterson
Award: $5,000
This project will offer four hours of low-cost legal services provided
by an accredited representative of project partner AFSC at "Super
Wednesday," a monthly family event sponsored by the church and
attended by immigrant and nonimmigrant families.
St. Stephen Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Urbandale, IA
Rev. Ron Mohr
Award: $5,000
The grant will help launch a Computer Round Up program (exclusively
for non-Match Grant clients) and provide volunteers for the conversation
part of the ESL lab.
Maryland
Zion Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Takoma Park, MD
Rev. Kim Erno
Award: $5,000
Zion wants to organize a housing rights campaign that would advocate
for safe, decent, affordable housing.
Massachusetts
First Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Lynn, MA
Neal Halvorson-Taylor
Award: $5,000
First Lutheran's ministry, God's Welcoming Community (GWC), will equip
and empower the newly settled refugees and other immigrants with language
and other skills necessary to make their adjustment to life in America
successful.
First Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Malden, MA
Rev. James Knowles
Award: $5,000
First Lutheran will start a revolving loan fund to be used by asylum
seekers (10-15 in the first year) to cover expenses such as short-term
training courses and housing deposits.
St. Paul Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Arlington, MA
Rev. Ross Goodman
Award: $5,000
St. Paul wants to provide an after-school and school break program
to help the eight Sudanese youth they co-sponsor make a transition
into American culture without losing the strengths and values of their
native culture.
Minnesota
Hmong Central Lutheran Church (ELCA)
St. Paul, MN
Rev. Dr. Naw-Karl Mua
Award: $3,000 ($5,000 in 2000 for tutoring; $5,000 in 1999 for scouting)
Develop a Marriage Enrichment Program for the Hmong community
Minnehaha Communion Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Minneapolis, MN
Rev. Harry Mueller
Award: $5,000
Minnehaha will extend the number of hours of its part-time parish
nurse by ten hours each week to enable her to specifically target
the immigrant community.
Peace Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Faribault, MN
Rev. Richard Wilkie
Award: (Joint award with Trinity Lutheran as lead church- please see
Trinity for amount)
Peace and Trinity will establish a day care center for Sudanese children.
Missouri
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church—Amigos
de Cristo Mission (LCMS)
Sedalia, MO
Rev. Javier Sierra
Award: $4,000 ($5,000 in 2000)
The grant will help pay the salary of a resource coordinator who provides
direct assistance to Hispanic immigrants, and coordinates volunteers
from St. Paul's and from a community based self-advocacy group called
Latinos Unidos.
Nebraska
Cush Community Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Omaha, NE
Gatkouth Kuich, Lay Pastor
Award: $5,000
Cush Community will create a Sudanese Language Outreach program, in
which Nuer language classes will be offered to the Sudanese community,
targeting women and children, on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
New Jersey
Christ—St. John Lutheran Church (ELCA)
West New York, NJ
Rev. Daniel Johannson
Award: $5,000
The Community Outreach and Referral Program (CORPUS) will help an
immigrant congregation develop a vocation of service to other newcomers.
New York
Living Water Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Brooklyn, NY
Rev. Jukka Kaariainen
Award: $5,000
Living Water and CCEC will develop a new after-school and day care
center.
Salam Arabic Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Brooklyn, NY
Rev. Khader El-Yateem
Award: $4,000 ($5,000 in 2000)
Salam will to continue to offer three-month low cost ESL classes,
held at the church in the evening.
Pennsylvania
Tabernacle Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Philadelphia, PA
Rev. Rosa Key
Award: $5,000
The grant will help expand a successful model program that teaches
Liberian seniors beginning reading and math, provides social activities,
coordinates field trips (this also helps the participants learn to
use public transportation), and uses games and storytelling as teaching
tools.
Tabor Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Philadelphia, PA
Rev. Andreas Wagner
Award: $5,000
Tabor will train adults and children in the use of computers.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manhattan
(ELCA)
New York, NY
Rev. Rhonda Hoehn
Award: $5,000
Trinity will launch an ESL teaching project targeting women and children.
Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Faribault, MN
Rev. Robert Snyder
Award: $5,000 (joint grant with Peace Lutheran)
Peace and Trinity will establish a day care center for Sudanese children.
South Dakota
Zion Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Sioux Falls, SD
Rev. Timothy Heupel
Award: $4,000 ($5,000 in 2000)
Zion last year created the Sudanese Refugee Assistance Center, administered
by an outreach coordinator, to advocate for the Sudanese and to meet
direct needs. The grant will help pay the salary of the coordinator
this year.
Tennessee
Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Gallatin, TN
Rev. Dave Maki
Award: $5,000
Trinity wants to hire a part-time Outreach Worker (ideally from the
Sudanese community) to meet with families and assess their needs.
The worker would link the Sudanese with existing state, county and
community resources.
Texas
Calvary Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Richland Hills, TX
Rev. Phil Heinze
Award: $5,000
Calvary Lutheran, in partnership with a Lutheran mission in El Cenizo,
community centers in both colonias, and the Webb County sheriff's
office, will send youth from Calvary to the colonias to construct
playgrounds at each of the community centers and at the Lutheran mission
congregation, and to create organized activities.
Cristo Rey Luterano (ELCA)
El Paso, TX
Rev. Rose Mary Sanchez
Award: $3,000 ($5,000 in 2000; $5,000 in 1999)
Cristo Rey will continue to respond to the needs of the community
in three ways: (1) to expand its own ESL classes; (2) to provide "scholarships"
to attend more intensive ESL classes at the community college; and
(3) to continue to provide legal/social advocacy for immigrants.
Cristo Rompió Las Cadenas Misión
(LCMS)
Fort Worth, TX
Rev. Mark Joeckel
Award: $5,000
Cristo Rompió Las Cadenas, in partnership with Lutheran Inter-City
Network Coalition (LINC), will offer Spanish literacy and ESL classes,
as well as free childcare to those attending these classes.
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Tyler, TX
Rev. Gustavo Guerrero
Award: $3,000
The purpose of this project is to provide accessibility to immigration
counseling, ESL classes, and the raising of awareness among new immigrants.
Park Place Lutheran (ELCA)
Houston, TX
Rev. Robert Navarro
Award: $5,000
The project will develop an educational program which will include:
1) Spanish literacy classes; 2) ESL; 3) English literacy; 4) GED classes;
5) assistance with preparing for tests necessary to enroll in community
college; 6) childcare support for mothers with small children enrolled
in one of the above programs; and 7) Spanish classes for members of
the congregation and local businesses.
St. John Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Grand Prairie, TX
Rev. Susan Rodriguez
Award: $5,000 ($5,000 in 2000)
St. John will open an Immigration Counseling Center for the undocumented
Hispanics in the community who qualify for status.
Washington
Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Leavenworth, WA
Rev. Alex Schmidt
Award: $5,000
The Ministry will offer two ESL classes each week at the church (afternoon
and evening), with childcare provided, will start a free medical clinic,
and will hold anti-racism conferences.
Washington, D.C.
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (Jubilee Center)
(ELCA)
Washington, DC
Rev. Dean Moe
Award: $4,000 ($4,000 in 2000 for legal services; $5,000 in 1999 for
Jubilee Center).
An adjunct professor from the local law school will oversee a law
clinic located at the Jubilee Center to provide direct immigration
legal services.
Iglesia Luterano Santa Maria (ELCA)
Washington, DC
Rev. Leonel Cruz
Award: $4,000 ($5,000 in 2000)
This project will expand upon its successful tutoring program to create
an ESL and literacy component for adults to attend, and establish
a basic information and referral system on immigration issues.
See lists of grantees from other years: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003,
2002, 2000.
Read more about the Good Samaritan Fund
grant program.
Page last modified July 7, 2008.
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