Foundation Seeks to Offer Funding for Local Church Projects to Change the Community with the Gospel : Church : Christianity Daily

The workshop, which took place at the Los Angeles Regional Office of Azusa Pacific University (APU), was attended by some 30 local church leaders of various ethnic backgrounds, including Korean American, Latino American, Caucasian American, and African American, and featured Brian Bakke, the president of The Mustard Seed Foundation. Among the projects that received grants included projects such as establishing a loan fund for rehabilitated sex workers and disabled individuals in a church in Kampala, Uganda; expanding a ministry in a prison for gang members and their families in Villa Nueva, Guatemala; building an evangelistic performing arts school in Bogota, Colombia; expanding an after school ministry in Compton, California; revitalizing a church in the South Bronx, New York; and establishing or expanding youth mentoring programs in various places all over the world.

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Brian Bakke explained the history of the Mustard Seed Foundation, and the ways that local churches could receive funding through the organization.

The foundation offers two types of grants for local church or ministry projects, Bakke said.