INFORMATION ONLY
Which Agency Provides RELCC Funds for Which Purposes?
Other Sources of Racial Ethnic Local Church Concerns FundingIf your project/ministry requires any of the following components or services, the General Board of Discipleship is NOT the appropriate agency for funding your request. Note which agencies (below) handle which kinds of funding.
General Board of Global Ministries
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
1-800-862-4246
Staff Contact: Kelvin Sauls, 212-870-3768
- Ministerial salaries and salary supplements
- Church extension (facilities)
- Mortgages and rentals
- Strategy development for new congregations: research, surveying, planning, evaluation of new racial ethnic ministries
- Community development
- Mission outreach
- Town and country ministries
- Urban ministries
- Mission leadership
- Church and community workers
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
PO Box 340007
(1001 19th Ave. So., 37212)
Nashville, TN 37203-0007
Staff Contact: Cynthia Bond Hopson,615-340-7376
- Health and welfare ministries
- Ministerial identification, enlistment, recruitment, education
- Community centers and residences
- Continuing education for pastors
- Career development in church occupations
- Scholarships for racial ethnic full-time students
- Student intern programs
- Use of seminarians in local churches
General Board of Church and Society
100 Maryland Avenue, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002-5664
202-488-5600
Staff Contact: Neal Christie, 202-488-5611
- Outreach ministries
- Leadership development for social, economic, and political action in communities
- Racial ethnic pastor and community development
- Drug and alcohol training seminars for clergy and laypersons
- Leadership seminars on national and international affairs.
Requests for staff positions cannot be funded through the General Board of Discipleship. Positions such as church and community worker, community worker, community developer, and full- or part-time racial ethnic pastors are funded by another agency, primarily the General Board of Global Ministries.
Most requests for seminarians and student interns to work in the local church should be sent to the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
Page updated 3-3-09.
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