The Christian Church in Kansas (CCK) has a variety of grants that are available each year. The deadline for two of those grants – Reconciliation Offering and the Kansas Bible Chair Grants – is fast approaching, and the Kansas Leadership Training Grant slots fill quickly, so early registration is recommended. Applications and full grant deadlines for all CCK grant opportunities including descriptions can be found here.
Reconciliation Grants
Half of the funds from the Reconciliation Special offering, received in September-October, stays in Kansas to fund projects that address racism and/or poverty in our community.
Projects selected for grants are people-centered projects — on-going or experimental — that reflect personal involvement in the life of any community where people are hurting because of poverty, alienation, racism and fear. Other considerations include the sponsoring organization’s financial support of the annual Reconciliation Special Offering.
Grant requests will be reviewed by the grant committee and recommended to the Regional Executive Committee for consideration in April. Funds will be dispersed in January 2023 after the available offering funds are known.
Apply online at www.kansasdisciples.org/grants.The application and supporting documentation submission deadline is March 31.
KBC Grants
Established by the Kansas Women’s Board of Missions, the Kansas Bible Chair (KBC) offers significant funds to provide quality education and spiritual formation opportunities for Kansas Disciples.
Many regional events are subsidized by KBC funds, allowing Kansas Disciples to take part at a much lower cost than would otherwise be possible.
All requests for funding of education projects must come to the KBC Task Force with an endorsement from a committee or commission of the CCK.
KBC Grant requests are reviewed twice a year — April and October — by the grant committee and recommended to the Regional Executive Committee for consideration.
The Spring submission deadline is
March 31.
KLC Tuition Grants
Once again, our region has a marvelous opportunity: 50 training slots in the leadership training programs offered by Kansas Leadership Center (KLC).
These are for people who want to make progress on something important – that is, to grow their leadership skills, to aid their congregations and CCK in addressing the adaptive challenges we face.
This training is intended to help you lead your congregation more effectively, more powerfully, to change lives and turn systems in healthy directions.
The team from within our region who will help to recruit individuals to the training programs are:
- Rev. David Dubovich, Park Place CC, Hutchinson
- Rev. Laurie Lewis, Parsons First CC
- Rev. Luis Mendez, North Heights CC, Wichita
- Danielle Euler, Leavenworth First CC,
- Rev. Guillermo Reyes, Iglesia Cristiana Discipulos de Cristo, Garden City
- Rev. Titus James (Ret.)
If you want to make progress on something you care about, grow your leadership skills, aid your congregation and the CCK in addressing the adaptive challenges we face then this training is for you. Your church will benefit most by sending teams of 3-4, one of whom is probably your pastor. You will also benefit by identifying a challenge on which you want to make progress.
As you begin the process of defining what your adaptive challenge is for your congregation, the team developed a collective adaptive challenge for the region of Kansas. The collective adaptive challenge we have defined is:
We want more people leading so that we can strengthen/empower and
equip the leadership within the congregations that make up the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Kansas,
as our church navigates an ever-changing world.
Plan to focus 90 days on the process: prework, the training and its application, beginning 21 days before your event.
In addition to congregational teams, CCK plans to send interested staff, moderators, and other regional leaders. Training sessions fill fast and registration early in the year is encouraged.
The KLC Partnership Grant covers tuition and a Kansas Bible Chair Grant covers books, housing, and meals. Participants pay only a $25 commitment fee.
After your application has been processed, follow the emailed instructions to register with Kansas Leadership Center and arrange for securing books from regional staff.