Seeds that Grow

Hattie Hammer, MEF Executive Director, and a Board of Directors of eighteen members work faithfully to support the missional work of the NT-NL Synod.

Contact: MEF

Executive Director
NT-NL Mission
Endowment Fund
1230 River Bend Blvd.,
Ste. 105
Dallas, TX   75247

P.O. Box 560587
Dallas, TX   75356-0587

214.637.6865
214.637.4805 Fax
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NT-NL Synod

Mission Endowment Fund

A Partner in DiscipleLife Alive!


"MEF" seeks to support mission projects within the NT-NL Synod. It works much like a foundation. An endowment fund serves as its core - the principal is invested and only the income from the investment is expended annually to benefit special causes that might otherwise go unfunded and unrealized.

MEF has a vision for the future and
It's all about Mission

The Mission Endowment Fund focuses on three main areas of interest:

  • Assisting new mission congregations
  • Supporting churches with exceptional potential but inadequate financial resources, and
  • Launching innovative projects with special promise for carrying out God's work and in need of financial support
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How we use money is a statement of what we truly love and value. Or, said another way, if you want to know who someone really is at their heart and center, look at what they do with their money. What do they support? Who do they support? Yes, of course, money normally gets used first of all for the care and nurture of the family and the basic necessities of life - but what happens after that? Is there a heart for music and the arts, or educational opportunity, or political change, or travel and exploration? Is money about self or about the good of the society and the institutions that you truly want to continue to mold and influence our culture and life? Said yet a third way, money is about where our hopes, faith, and devotion are to be found. Jesus knew that.

When the NT-NL Synod set out to create an Endowment Fund for our little part of the ELCA, the Fund was not about underwriting current programs, staff or offices. The Fund was established to support mission. Mission - like congregational efforts to provide outreach activities for neighborhood kids, or helping satellite ministries get started among Hispanics in Alvarado, Oromos in Dallas, or in the expanding suburbs northwest of Fort Worth, or a variety of innovative outreach efforts in a dozen other places.

Gifts to the Mission Endowment Fund keep on giving since only the earnings are used for grants. In recent years MEF has given thousands of dollars to support new missions starts around the synod, to help existing congregations engage in missional outreach, and to enable congregations with innovative ideas to be able to try their best ideas to help grow the Kingdom.

Learn more about MEF and help them make a good, valuable and missional impact among us.

Include "MEF" in your regular giving,
your estate planning, and prayers.

To go to the MEF web site, click here.
 
Northern Texas - Northern Louisiana Synod, ELCA
1230 River Bend #105 • Dallas, Texas, 75247
SynodOffice@ntnl.org • 214.637.NTNL (6865) • 214.637.4805 (Fax)
Copyright 2010

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Stained glass window from
Covenant Lutheran Church
Temple, Texas

Mission Projects

1996-2006

San Miguel, Fort Worth
New Hope, Keller
Messiah, Weatherford
Community of Hope, Fort Worth
Christ, Texarkana
Christ Evangelical, Odessa
Briarwood Retreat Center, Argyle
First, Longview
Faith, Meridian
Faith, Spearman
St. John, Grand Prairie
Our Savior's, Durant
Peace, Paris
St. Andrew, Hurst
Hope, Springtown
Our Savior, Tyler
Living Waters. Mansfield
Lord of Life, Red Oak
Grace, Ennis
San Miguel, Fort Worth
Rejoice, Frisco
St. John, Grand Prairie
King of Glory, Fort Worth
River of Life, McKinney
Emanuel, Dallas
Joy, Rockwall
Church of the Resurrection,
Roanoak
St. Matthews Greenbrier
School, Fort Worth
Spirit of Grace Mission,
Eagle Mountain/Saginaw
Church of the Way, Garland
Midland, Midland
Walnut Hill, Dallas
Holy Trinity Learning Center,
Holy Trinity, Irving
ARK Preschool,
Resurrection, Plano
Emanuel, Granbury
Mt. Olive, Dallas
Oromo Ministry
Holy Family, Garland
King of Glory, Dallas
First, Shreveport
Christ the Servant, Allen
Our Redeemer, Grand Prairie


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