2018 Annual Report (PDF)

Mustard Seed Foundation

2018 Annual Report

Who We Are The Mustard Seed Foundation is a Christian family foundation established in 1983 under the leadership of Dennis W. Bakke and Eileen Harvey Bakke. The Foundation was created as an expression of the Bakke’s desire to be faithful stewards of the financial resources entrusted to them, to bring together the members of their extended families into common ministry, and to advance the Kingdom of God. The Foundation provides grants primarily to churches worldwide that are undertaking new ministry projects including outreach, discipleship, and economic empowerment. The Foundation also awards scholarships to Christians pursuing advanced educational degrees in preparation for leadership roles in society. The Foundation affirms the Lausanne Covenant as its missional commitment to the world. All directors and staff of the Mustard Seed Foundation are committed followers of Jesus Christ. Board of Directors Junior Board Dennis Bakke Britton Bakke Contents Co-Chair/Treasurer Julius Bakke, Chair Board of Directors 1 Eileen Bakke Rahel Bakke Junior Board 1 Co-Chair Josh Harvey Staff 1 Elizabeth Bakke 2018 Overview 2 Eric Bakke 2018 Financials 3 Margaret Bakke Annual Giving 4 Ray Bakke Grants Overview 5 Laura Harvey Africa 6 W. Brantley Harvey Americas 8 Warren Harvey Asia 13 Lightsey Jett Europe 15 Marilyn Pearson Middle East 18 Daniel Thompson Harvey Fellows 20 Dargan Thompson Theology of Work 21 Margaret Thompson

Staff Brian Bakke Eric Hornberger Regional Director for the Americas Executive Director Scott Bakke Lonni Jackson Director of IT and Finance Executive Director Nancy Gray Director of Administration

2018 Overview

Dear Friends, growing team of TOW teachers have increased their efforts to offer curricula and materials via the TOW website, to Once again, we take time to reflect on the work of the identify colleges and seminaries that want to teach TOW as Mustard Seed Foundation during the past year and to a core part of their curriculum, and to identify and train new report to our grantees and other stakeholders. Each year TOW teachers to facilitate the program even more broadly in we try to give a public accounting for our stewardship of the the future. It is gratifying to witness how transformative an Foundation’s resources, in order to remain transparent and understanding of God’s view of our work can be in a variety accountable as a Christ-centered organization. We continue of cultures. to be thankful for God’s abundant mercy and faithfulness to the Mustard Seed Foundation year after year. Over the 35 years of Mustard Seed’s existence, we have relied largely on the talent, wisdom and dedication of three The Foundation’s annual budget and giving priorities have generations of family members to guide MSF. We want to been fairly consistent over the past few years. In 2018, highlight two family members with gratitude in this letter. our total annual operations were just over $2.6 million, Brantley Harvey, Eileen’s father, went home to heaven in with nearly $2 million granted in our three giving areas: December at the age of 88. Brantley helped incorporate church-based granting, the Harvey Fellows Program, and the MSF in 1983 and served on the Board since its inception. He Theology of Work grants program. We awarded 218 grants to contributed constant good will, fiscal realism, and abounding churches and other ministries in 59 countries worldwide, with faith throughout his tenure on the Board. We all miss his our average grant size remaining $6,100. Our seasoned staff gentlemanly voice, his warm smile, and his twinkling blue members continue to travel to visit prior and prospective eyes. Scott Bakke, who came to work at the Foundation in grantees, often conducting workshops for leaders from small early 1999, left employment at MSF at the end of 2018. Scott, churches to help them learn how to write a grant proposal. who kept our technology and data base operational, was also We are encouraged by increased levels of granting in the in many ways the Foundation’s historian. Thank you, Scott, Middle East, India and Western Europe. We also continue to for 20 years of service. identify strong ministries in Central and South America. We also want to thank Daniel Thompson for five years of In 2018 we supported 38 Christian graduate students service as he rotates off the Board. Daniel participated through the Harvey Fellows Program, providing $356,000 vigorously in reading Harvey Fellows applications and in the in fellowship stipends. We selected nine new Fellows in selection process. We welcome Laura Harvey onto the Board February, who will receive a $16,000 stipend each year for to fill this five-year position. one, two or three years depending on the amount of time remaining in their program of study. In June we hosted our The longer we walk with Jesus Christ, in many respects the biannual Summer Institute, ably led by Jerry and Jeannie simpler it becomes. We are commanded to love the Lord Herbert and alumni Fellows Olivia Mather and Caleb with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our Spencer. The Summer Institute is a key component of the HF neighbors as ourselves. This command encompasses a whole experience, allowing Fellows to form lasting relationships world of faith, prayer, priorities, and action. Please pray for us with others and to explore more fully the integration of faith as we attempt, by God’s grace, to live this out in our work and into their studies, vocations, and lives. relationships. We also pray this will be true for you.

The 2018 Theology of Work grants, totaling $202,000 were Eileen & Dennis Bakke made to support 25 Theology of Work courses worldwide. Lowell Bakke, who administers the grant program, and a

Financials

The Foundation’s expenditures totaled over $2.6 million in area of the Foundation, as it has been since the Foundation’s 2018. 74 percent of these funds were given through 218 inception. The remainder of the Foundation’s giving was grants to churches and 38 scholarships to individuals. channeled through the Harvey Fellowship, the Theology of Work grant program and matching gifts. Providing grants for small startup projects of churches in major urban centers worldwide remains the primary giving

2018 Expenditures

2018 Balance Sheet For the year ending December 31, 2018

Funds Available Disbursements Beginning of Year Net Assets/Surplus $ 232,440 Grants $1,331,947 Income $2,809,675 Scholarships $410,047 Other Giving $201,640 Total Available Funds $3,042,115 Administration $668,299 Total Disbursements $2,611,933 End of Year Net Assets/Surplus* $430,182

*Includes grant returned from prior year

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Grants Overview

In 2018 we awarded $1,331,947 in grants matched by local churches to help establish 218 new innovative, grass-roots T.A. Bakke Award ministries mostly in the largest urban centers of the world. Each year the Mustard Seed Foundation designates one As our name implies, the Mustard Seed Foundation grant award as a special tribute to the life of one of our provides seed funding for small startup projects primarily founding board members. Tollef A. Bakke was a second to churches around the world. We seek to partner with generation Norwegian immigrant who lived and worked in local congregations that identify, equip, and support their the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. He also participated in a members who are called to specific areas of ministry in trip to the Holy Land that profoundly influenced his faith. the Church and society. We look for initiatives that offer innovative approaches to church-based ministries. We recognize the grant award to Al Marg Al Sharkia Evangelical Church in Cairo, Egypt as our 2018 T.A. Bakke Mustard Seed seeks to help launch projects through its grants Award. This was a $3,600 grant to establish a preschool as a minority partner, providing funds over a limited time outreach ministry in the Al Marg community. period, and in a way that encourages self-sufficiency and reliance on indigenous church support. We consider local church accountability and financial support to be primary indicators of the priority and integrity of a particular project Savina Tong Award and key to its long-term sustainability. All of the funds given as grants are matched by funds from local churches Savina Tong represented the Foundation for eight years to connected to the projects. encourage the work of local churches in East Asia. Savina The Foundation recognizes the unique challenges and helped the Foundation to connect with the fast-growing opportunities faced by urban churches. As the world rapidly church of mainland China as well as in the more open urbanizes, we believe that investing in churches located locations of Hong Kong and Taiwan. Since her passing in in large cities to be particularly strategic. The Foundation 2010, the Foundation has selected a grant award each year awards most grants in the largest urban centers of the world. as a tribute to her life and ministry among us.

Mustard Seed awards grants to a wide variety of projects. We recognize the grant award to The Gospel Center in Osaka, We typically fund initiatives that share the gospel with Japan as our 2018 Savina Tong Award. This was a $15,000 non-Christians (outreach), generate income and economic grant to establish a church in the Yamada community of Suita decision-making opportunities to poorer Christians City of Osaka. (empowerment), or equip Christians to better proclaim and demonstrate the gospel (discipleship).

Africa : 2018 Grants List

Central Baptist Church Grace Chapel Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA Durban, SOUTH AFRICA Establish a church in Laudium community. Enable a church to replant in an existing building. $6,500 $10,000

Saints Church Grace Point Church Kampala, UGANDA Kikuyu, KENYA Establish a church in the Kisenyi refugee camp. Establish a church in the Kikuyu neighborhood. $2,000 $13,000

Christ Authority Chapel International Hope Church Auckland Park Accra, GHANA Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA Capitalize loan fund for ten former sex workers. Establish an outreach to university students $3,000 at Johannesburg University and WITS. $11,000 Emmanuel Church Congregation Morogoro, TANZANIA International Church of Monrovia Capitalize a loan fund for 11 women in the church. Monrovia, LIBERIA $3,150 Enable the church to accommodate a growing youth ministry. Emmanuel Evangelical International Mission $4,000 Nairobi, KENYA Initiate an outreach program to combat drug addiction. Life Purpose Church $2,000 Nairobi, KENYA Establish a marriage counseling outreach. Emmanuel Gospel Ministry $2,000 Nairobi, KENYA Establish a youth ministry. Maranata Mission $2,000 Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE Establish a congregation in the Infulene neighborhood. Evangelical Christ Church in Mozambique $3,000 Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE Establish a church in the Polana Canico neighborhood. Mombasa City of Hope Church $1,500 Mombasa, KENYA Establish a church in the Kongowea neighborhood. Global Grace Chapel $2,000 Accra, GHANA Establish a loan fund to enable two church members to Oil Arena International Ministries purchase taxi vehicles. Accra, GHANA $8,000 Establish a church among university students. $5,000 Glory Revival Ministries Nairobi, KENYA Power City Fellowship International Expand an evangelistic outreach to young mothers through Accra, GHANA child care. Capitalize a loan fund for nine members of the church $2,500 $4,000

Africa : 2018 Grants List continued

Revelation Ministries Ushindi Baptist Church Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Kampala, UGANDA Establish a school youth tutoring program. Establish a church in the Lugbara neighborhood. $800 $2,000

Revival Fire International Ministries Victory Family Chapel Accra, GHANA Accra, GHANA Establish an evangelistic soccer outreach. Apprenticeships for five church members. $3,000 $2,000

Saint John’s Church Wynberg Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Expand a youth program. $5,000

Salem Evangelical Church Cotonou, BENIN Capitalize a loan fund for ten church members. $3,000

St. Martin’s Anglican Church Kanengo Parish Lilongwe, MALAWI Establish a church in M’gona community. $2,000

Thriving Life Church, TLC Mombasa, KENYA Establish a community garden. $3,000

Tower of Grace Ministries International Accra, GHANA Establish a loan fund for 10 church members. $4,500

Trinity Church Morningside Durban, SOUTH AFRICA Establish an apprenticeship program. $2,000

United Faith Temple International Accra, GHANA Establish a neighborhood medical outreach. $3,000

Americas : 2018 Grants List

A Place Where You Can Grow Church Armitage Baptist Church Bogota, COLOMBIA Chicago, IL United States Enable the church to hold an evangelistic workshop in the Enable the church to hold a bilingual evangelistic summer Kennedy District for women to learn skills to get a job. camp for kids in Humboldt Park. $4,000 $12,000

Abundant Favor Worship Center Bethel Church Chicago, IL United States Siguatepeque, Comayagua, HONDURAS Enable the church to hold an evangelistic summer art Enable the church to send a lay leader to a three-month program for kids in the Austin neighborhood. discipleship course in San Jose, Costa Rica. $15,000 $2,750

Acacia Christian Church Trumpet of God Tabernacle Biblical Community for the Nations Bogota, COLOMBIA São Paulo, BRAZIL Establish an after-school program Enable the church to hold an evangelistic educational in the Acacia neighborhood. ministry among kids in the Jardim Comercial neighborhood. $4,000 $8,000

Adulam Contreras Bread and Chocolate Mexico City, MEXICO Guatemala City, GUATEMALA Establish a church in the Contreras barrio of the Capital. Establish an evangelistic craft workshop for transsexuals $7,500 in prostitution. $2,000 Afghan Church of the GTA Missisauga, CANADA Calvary Baptist Church Establish a church among Afghani Muslims Toronto, CANADA in Thorncliffe Park. Establish a youth outreach in the East End of Toronto. $15,000 $3,100

All Saints Church Calvary Presbyterian Church Bronx, NY United States Wilmington, CA United States Establish a summer outreach in the Mott Haven Enable the church to hold a cross cultural summer youth neighborhood of the South Bronx. Bible camp. $5,000 $2,000

Alphaville Presbyterian Church Center of Life Church Sao Paulo, BRAZIL Bogota, COLOMBIA Establish a church in Atibaia. Establish an evangelistic preschool in the Suba District. $6,000 $5,000

Americas Presbyterian Church Central Lutheran Church Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL Van Nuys, CA United States Establish a church in Impanema Beach neighborhood. Establish an evangelistic ESL program among first $15,000 generation Latinos. $5,000

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Chinese Evangelical Mission Church Door of Hope Church Queens Bayside, NY United States Bogotá, COLOMBIA Establish an outreach among special needs children. Establish an evangelistic music outreach in the $4,500 Perseverancia Barrio. $4,654 Christ Church Philadelphia, PA United States Enjoy Church Establish a residential recovery and discipleship home in Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Dickenson Narrows. Develop relational evangelism among nation’s decision $5,000 makers and power brokers. $6,000 Christ Family Church Miami, FL United States Expect Hope Establish a Christian counseling ministry. New Milford, NJ United States $5,000 Establish “Expect Hope” residence for women in crisis pregnancy. Christ the King Dorchester $5,000 Dorchester, MA United States Establish an outreach among Albanian immigrants in Boston. Free Methodist Church Christian Community Way of Life $7,500 Medellin, COLOMBIA Establish a church in the Bethlehem neighborhood. Christian Church in Manaus $5,700 Manaus, BRAZIL Establish a church in the Conjunto Atílio Andreazza area. God’s House of Divine Revelation Church $4,000 Chicago, IL United States Establish a healing ministry in Auburn Gresham for women Church in the City and girls living with domestic violence. Toronto, CANADA $2,000 Establish an outreach into the Canary District. $4,650 Good News Church Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA City Heart Establish an outreach among pregnant women and teens in Bogotá, COLOMBIA the Cildañez neighborhood. Establish a residential discipleship ministry among young $5,000 adults that aged out of the foster care system. $5,000 Grace Toronto Church Toronto, CANADA Community of Worshipers Establish a church in the East End of the city. Sao Paulo, BRAZIL $7,500 Establish a safe house for abused women and kids. $15,000 Greater Morning View Baptist Church Chicago, IL United States Establish a summer camp for youth in South Deering area of the city. $9,000

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House of God Light and Truth Church Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Tegucigalpa, HONDURAS Establish a neighborhood evangelism ministry in the Enable the church to send a lay leader to a three-month Ballester neighborhood. discipleship course in San Jose, Costa Rica. $5,000 $1,325

Iglesia del Rey Live Fire Ministries International San Jose, COSTA RICA Bogotá, COLOMBIA Establish a children’s outreach in Corobo Park in the Ipis Establish an evangelistic soccer outreach in the Alta Tuna barrio. barrio. $665 $2,000

Itaboraí Baptist Church Lively Stone Missionary Baptist Church Itaboraí, BRAZIL Chicago, IL United States Establish a church in the Itaboraí area of Rio de Janeiro. Establish a summer music camp in the Austin neighborhood. $6,000 $15,000

Jerusalem National Presbyterian Church Living Hope Church Mexico City, MEXICO Chicago, IL United States Establish a daughter church in the Moctezuma colony of the Establish a middle school ministry in the Woodlawn Capital. neighborhood. $9,000 $4,000

King of Glory Assembly of God Logos Community Church Bogotá, COLOMBIA Flushing, NY United States Establish an evangelistic music school for kids in Teusaquillo. Establish an evangelism ministry among seniors in Flushing. $4,000 $6,000

King of Glory Tabernacle COGIC Mississauga Chinese Evangelical Missionary Church Chicago, IL United States Mississauga, CANADA Expand summer children’s camp in South Chicago. Expand an outreach to Chinese immigrant high school $5,000 students in Oakville. $4,900 Liberty Grace Church Toronto, CANADA Mount Sinai Church Establish an outreach among single professionals in Liberty Bogotá, COLOMBIA Village. Expand an evangelistic music school $5,750 in the San Cristobal area. $3,000 Life Baptist Church Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church Establish a church in the Providência favela. Houston, TX United States $7,767 Establish a science, technology, engineering and math outreach among youth in Minnetex. $9,800

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New City Church of Los Angeles Resurrection Clinton Hill Los Angeles, CA United States Brooklyn, NY United States Establish a church in the San Fernando Valley. Establish a holistic ministry among families in crisis $10,000 in Prospect Park neighborhood. $2,500 New Life Bible Chapel Mississauga, CANADA Rhema Christian Church Establish an evangelistic soccer camp for youth. Ciudad Nueva, GUATEMALA $1,000 Expand a mentoring program among Police and former gang leaders. New Life Church of Robledo $800 Medellin, COLOMBIA Establish a church in the Belén Rincón neighborhood. Rivers of Living Waters Ministries, International $3,000 Oak Park, IL United States Establish a summer music camp for youth in East Garfield Pentecostal Church of God - God is Love Park. Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA $13,250 Establish an evangelistic clothing construction workshop in San Miguel. Rosemère Christian Church $5,360 Montreal, CANADA Establish a collaborative community outreach in the North Philadelphian SDA Church Shore area. Long Beach, CA United States $9,000 Establish an evangelistic audio and video training for youth. $15,000 Rush Memorial Congregational United Church of Christ Atlanta, GA United States Redeemer Church Establish a Hip-Hop outreach among university students in Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL the downtown area. Enable Brazilians to be trained to reach out to Muslims living $13,150 in Rio. $5,760 Safe Haven United Church of Christ Rigdewood, NY United States Redil Poblado Church Establish a senior ministry in the Ridgewood area of Queens. Medellin, COLOMBIA $5,000 Establish a church in El Poblado. $3,000 Sembrando Arte Guatemala City, GUATEMALA Restoration Fellowship Tabernacle Establish an arts collaborative in the garbage dump Detroit, MI United States community. Establish a community youth outreach and mentoring program. $2,525 $3,000 Suba Rincón Assemblies of God Resurrection Church Bogota, COLOMBIA Brooklyn, NY United States Establish an evangelistic youth music school Expand an evangelistic college preparation ministry in the Rincon Barrio. in Sunset Park. $2,500 $15,000

Americas : 2018 Grants List continued

Teen Challenge Peru Time of Restoration Evangelical Baptist Church Lima, PERU São Paulo, BRAZIL Establish a residential recovery ministry in San Juan Expand a children’s music program in Jardom Novo de Lurigancho. Horizonte area. $3,658 $3,000

The Chapel Triumph Chinese Evangelical Missionary Church Montréal, CANADA North York, CANADA Enable new pastors to obtain training for effective ministry. Create an evangelistic robotic camp for youth. $8,000 $4,000

The Fullness Church Trumpet of God Tabernacle in Bosa Bogotá, COLOMBIA Bogotá, COLOMBIA Establish an evangelistic music, dance, and theater outreach Establish an outreach among Venezuelan refugees in the Alcaparros Barrio. in the city. $6,000 $4,460

The Journey Church Valley Vineyard Forest Hills, NY United States Reseda, CA United States Establish an afterschool ministry. Enable the church to hold a series of outreach events in $7,000 Astoria as a way to prepare to plant a new church. $10,000 Vila Itam Wesleyan Methodist Church São Paulo, BRAZIL The Nazarene Church of the Assemblies of God Bogotá Establish an evangelistic after school program Bogotá, COLOMBIA in the Jardim Guaraci barrio. Establish an evangelistic program in public schools in $1,442 Engativá to prevent child abuse. $7,500 Vila St. Isabel Evangelical Christian Church São Paulo, BRAZIL The Promise Church of Chicago Establish an outreach in the Jardim Vila Formosa Chicago, IL United States and Santo Eduardo area. Establish an education based summer camp $7,500 in the North Austin neighborhood. $12,000 Westview Bible Church Montreal, CANADA The Spirit of Truth Church Establish a combined church holistic outreach in the West Willowdale, CANADA Island area. Establish an outreach among Persian Muslims. $2,500 $4,500 Zona Sul Christian Church The Way Charismatic Christian Mission São Paulo, BRAZIL Lima, PERU Establish an evangelistic outreach among high school Create a holistic outreach among kids students and their teachers. in Alameda de Los Descalzos. $5,621 $3,750

Asia : 2018 Grants List

Ambassadors Church of India Kurume Bible Fellowship Faridabad, INDIA Tokyo, JAPAN Establish a church in the Dalelpur area of Establish a church in Ikeburkuro. Goutambadhonagar in Uttar Pradesh. $10,000 $2,847 Lifehouse Hiroshima Asha Assemblies of God Church Hiroshima, JAPAN Bhopal, INDIA Establish a church. Establish a music outreach ministry in the Danish Kunj $10,000 community of Bhopal. $2,500 Lifehouse Osaka Osaka, JAPAN Bethesda Church Establish an outreach ministry to the Osaka business Thane (W), INDIA community. Establish a church in the Ghodbandar Road area of $19,200 metro Mumbai. $1,000 Lifehouse Yokohama Yokohama, JAPAN Camp David Christian Church Develop a church-based children’s ministry. Tangerang City, INDONESIA $20,000 Enable a cross-cultural mission in Yangon. $1,350 Living Water Home Church Kathmandu, NEPAL Chosen Peoples Church Establish a church among Pakistani refugees. Thane, INDIA $2,500 Establish a preschool outreach ministry. $1,800 Mustard Seed Christian Church Kobe Kobe, JAPAN Everlasting Life Home Church Enable Tomoaki Shimatani to minister among the Kobe Shah Alam, MALAYSIA business community. Establish an Urdu speaking church in Kuala Lumpur. $18,500 $4,000 Mustard Seed Christian Church Kyoto Hope Eternal Life Church Kyoto, JAPAN Bhopal, INDIA Establish a church. Establish a church in the Jatkhadi community. $10,000 $4,000 New Calvary Church Itminaan Church Bhopal, INDIA Bhopal, INDIA Start a lay leader training initiative within new church in the Establish a micro-enterprise and discipleship initiative. Lalita Nagar community of Bhopal. $4,923 $3,400

Asia : 2018 Grants List continued

Panvel Baptist Church Vasai Baptist Church Panvel, Raighad, INDIA Thane, INDIA Establish a preschool and adult literacy outreach ministry Establish a social outreach ministry in the Turbhe “red-light” among the Kathkari people in Panvel area of greater area of Navi Mumbai. Navi Mumbai. $4,400 $4,000 Way True Life Prarthna Bhawan Church Kalyan West, Thane, INDIA Metro Delhi, INDIA Establish a preschool outreach ministry in Anandwadi slum. Establish a church in the Tigaon community of Faridabad. $3,000 $1,500 Confidential grant Rahat Church $5,000 Bhopal, INDIA Establish a church in the Navi Bagh community. $3,500

Suburban Baptist Church Hoppers Crossing, AUSTRALIA Establish a church in the Wyndham suburb of Melbourne. $15,000

Temple of God Prayer Center Church Faridabad, INDIA Establish a school outreach ministry in the Ballabgarh community of Faridabad in metro Delhi. $3,000

The Bridge Fellowship Tokyo, JAPAN Establish a church in the Shimokitazawa neighborhood. $15,000

The Gospel Center Osaka, JAPAN Establish a church in the Yamada community of Suita City of Osaka. $15,000

Truth Mission Chembur Church Metro Mumbai, INDIA Establish a multi-faceted church planting effort in the Mankhurd neighborhood of Navi Mumbai. $1,000

Europe : 2018 Grants List

180 Degree Gospel of Christ Church Tirana, ALBANIA Tirane, ALBANIA Establish a church in central Tirana. Establish a church in Yzberisht $5,000 $3,000

Amazing Grace Baptist Church Gracemount Church of Scotland Hamburg, GERMANY Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM Establish a Ghanaian immigrant church in the city center. Enable the church to hire an outreach coordinator. $15,000 $10,000

Berlinprojekt Hamburg Project Berlin, GERMANY Hamburg, GERMANY Establish a church in West Berlin. Establish a church in Istanbul, Turkey. $10,000 $10,000

Brno Apostolic Church House of Peace Church Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC Utrecht, NETHERLANDS Establish a church in the city center. Establish a Muslim outreach in the Kanaleneiland $12,000 neighborhood. $6,000 Church for Cottbus Cottbus, GERMANY Impact Church Establish a church. Pristina, KOSOVO $15,000 Establish a church. $6,000 Color Church The Hague, NETHERLANDS International Christian Fellowship Establish a church in the Regentessekwartier neighborhood. Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC $4,000 Establish a church in the city center. $15,000 Do Slova Praha, CZECH REPUBLIC JesusZentrum Establish a bilingual congregation in Prague. Vienna, AUSTRIA $5,000 Expand an outreach to refugees and migrants. $15,000 Father’s House Church Bratislava, SLOVAKIA London Arabic Evangelical Church Enable the church to hire a youth pastor to start an arts London, UNITED KINGDOM focused youth program. Enable the church to hold an outreach to tourists during the $11,000 FIFA World Cup. $1,000 First Greek Evangelical Church Athens, GREECE LOZ Amsterdam Establish a church in the Neos Kosmos neighborhood. Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS $15,000 Establish a church. $10,000

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Maranatha Church Resurrection Church Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN Enable the church to hire an outreach worker to Muslim Establish an evangelistic cafe. families in the church neighborhood. $6,300 $5,000 Riverside International Church Mosaik Heidelberg, e.V. Cascais, PORTUGAL Heidelberg, GERMANY Establish an immigrant friendly church in central Lisbon. Establish a Turkish and Arabic Church. $9,000 $10,000 Russian Bible Church New City Church Moscow, RUSSIA Barcelona, SPAIN Establish a church. Establish a city outreach during Sant Jordi Festival $10,000 $3,000 San Lorenzo Evangelical Church New Life Church Rome, ITALY Frankfurt, GERMANY Establish a church. Establish a church in the Bockenheim community. $6,000 $10,000 Schenefeld International Baptist Church Oosterpark Church Hamburg, GERMANY Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS Establish a church focused on middle eastern migrants. Expand a “pop-up” church planting initiative. $6,000 $3,000 Surf Church Porto Openchurch Porto, PORTUGAL Herning, DENMARK Establish a church with surfers and the beach community. Establish a church in the city center. $2,500 $25,000 The Sheepsgate Church Quarterly Church Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS Hannover, GERMANY Establish a neighborhood youth program. Establish a church. $10,000 $10,000 The Station Redeemer Grace Church Madrid, SPAIN Geneva, SWITZERLAND Establish church in the Principe Pio neighborhood. Establish a church focused on young professionals. $12,000 $10,000 Via Nova Reformed Evangelical Church Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS Marseille, FRANCE Establish an outreach to university students. Enable the church to increase the pastor’s employment to $4,000 full time. $6,000

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Vienna Christian Center Vienna, AUSTRIA Establish a Filipino church in the 12th District. $15,000

Wolfsburg-Connect Braunschweig, GERMANY Establish a congregation in the city center. $10,000

Woluwe Evangelical Church Brussels, BELGIUM Establish a church. $4,000

Middle East : 2018 Grants List

Al Marg Al Sharkia Evangelical Church Erbil International Baptist Church Cairo, EGYPT Erbil, IRAQ Establish a preschool outreach ministry in the Al Marg. Expand pastoral staffing. $3,600 $20,000

American Project Evangelical Church Everlasting Life Church Cairo, EGYPT Faisalabad, PAKISTAN Establish a preschool ministry in the American Project Expand an online ministry in the Urdu language. area of Helwan. $2,500 $1,250 Everlasting Life Church - Malkhanwala Amoudain Apostolic Church Faisalabad, PAKISTAN Amoudain, Itsa, Minya, EGYPT Launch a child sponsorship outreach initiative Establish a rehabilitation center ministry for people in the Malkhanwala District of Faisalabad. with special needs. $4,500 $2,000 Ezbet Ayoub Evangelical Church Amoudain Evangelical Church Ezbet Ayoub, Deir Mawas, Minya, EGYPT Amoudain, Itsa, Minya, EGYPT Establish a Christian preschool. Establish a sports outreach ministry. $3,300 $6,000 Full Gospel Assembly Church - Warispura Azbakeya Evangelical Church Faisalabad, PAKISTAN Cairo, EGYPT Expand a sewing/adult literacy outreach program. Establish a Biblical training program in Tunisia. $2,500 $2,500 Hadayek Al-Ahram Evangelical Church Desert Flowers Giza, EGYPT Arad, ISRAEL Establish a preschool outreach ministry Establish a drug rehabilitation ministry in Beer-Sheva. in the Hadayek El-Ahram community. $3,040 $5,000

El-Bitash Biblical Baptist Church Hamaayan Congregation Alexandria, EGYPT Kfar-Saba, ISRAEL Establish a church-based preschool. Establish a creative healing ministry. $5,000 $5,000

El-Fashn Evangelical Church Home Church Istanbul El-Fashn, Beni Suef. EGYPT Istanbul, TURKEY Enable a Christian preschool expansion in the town Establish a Russian-speaking church in Antalya. of El-Fashn. $9,000 $6,800

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Kasr El Dobara Evangelical Church St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church Cairo, EGYPT Ezbet, El-Ozkof, El-Quossia, Assuit, EGYPT Support a nationwide prayer conference in Damascus, Syria. Establish a church-based youth outreach club. $10,000 $2,250

Miana El-Wakf Evangelical Church Taha El-Ameda Evangelical Church Miana El-Wakf, Maghagha, Minya, EGYPT Taha El-Ameda, Samalout, Minya, EGYPT Expand and renovate a church-based preschool ministry. Establish a medical clinic outreach ministry in Taha El- $3,450 Ameda. $8,000 Naeem Evangelical Church Naeem, Beni Suef, EGYPT Tema Evangelical Church Renovate and expand a church-based preschool. Tema, Sohag, EGYPT $4,000 Establish a church-based preschool outreach ministry. $3,800 Nakheel Biblical Baptist Church Alexandria, EGYPT Universal Gospel Assembly Church Establish a preschool outreach ministry in the Nakheel Islamabad, PAKISTAN community of Alexandria. Enable a community development and mobilization $5,000 training initiative in the Maskeen Colony in collaboration with Mercy Trust. New Hadra Evangelical Church $4,000 Alexandria, EGYPT Establish an educational outreach program for at-risk Confidential grants totaling $46,050 children in the Moharam Bek community of Alexandria. $7,000

Second Evangelical Church Deir Abu Hennes, Mallawy, Minya, EGYPT Establish a Christian preschool ministry in Deir Abu Hennes. $4,400

Shoubra Sharkia Evangelical Church Cairo, EGYPT Establish an outreach center ministry to widows and orphans in the Shoubra community. $5,000

St. George Coptic Orthodox Church Ezbet Rafael, Quossia, Assuit, EGYPT Establish a church-based youth club. $5,000

Harvey Fellows Program

In 2018 the Foundation invested $410,047 in support of 38 from our understanding of God as Creator and Redeemer, graduate students preparing to enter strategic vocations in not only of human beings, but also of society’s disciplines academia, the arts, and the marketplace. We were privileged and structures. Our desire is to identify, prepare, and to award 9 new fellowships to an extraordinary group of celebrate this generation’s Josephs, Lydias, Daniels, and graduate students from around the world. The Foundation Esthers—Christians who will assume positions of leadership hosted a Summer Institute in June of 2018 in Arlington, VA and influence in society. The Harvey Fellowship is a stipend to bring Fellows together for a dialogue on the integration of of $16,000 that may be renewed for up to two additional faith and vocation. years. The award is given to outstanding students enrolled at a premier graduate degree program and is therefore The Mustard Seed Foundation initiated the Harvey Fellows very competitive. Harvey Fellows typically attend schools Program in 1992 to mark, equip, and encourage followers considered by professionals to be among the top five globally of Jesus Christ who seek to actively integrate their faith in a given subject area or specialty. and vocations as leaders in strategic occupations where Christians appear to be underrepresented. This idea grew

2018 Harvey Fellows

Jordan Brensinger Michael Silvestri PhD, Sociology MBA, Business and Management, Consulting Columbia University Harvard University Benjamin Gibson Naicheng Wangyu JD, Federal Indian Law MBA, Business and Management, Entrepreneurship & Stanford University General Management Stanford University Alex Haskins PhD, Political Science University of Chicago 2018 Harvey Fellows Advisory Board Chenxin Jiang The Harvey Fellows Advisory Board is comprised of elected PhD, Literature Fellows who help guide and provide vision for the program, University of Chicago as well as encourage the network of Harvey Fellows. The following Fellows served on the Advisory Board in 2018: Rachel Lamb PhD, Earth Science Natt Gantt (1993), Secretary-Treasurer University of Maryland Christine Gardner (2002), Development Committee Chair Maggie Makar Laurena Ketzel-Kerber (1996), Vice Chair PhD, Engineering, Computer Science and Technology David Kurz (2016), Prayer Committee Chair Massachusetts Institute of Technology Andrea Olsen Lam (2007), Events Committee Chair Sara Vanderhaagen (2007), Communications Committee Chair Kathryn Mogk Drew Watkins (2008), Chair PhD, Literature Harvard University Year indicates year Fellow was selected.

Theology of Work

In 2018 we awarded 25 Theology of Work (TOW) grants concept in their own churches and ministries. This theological totaling $201,640 to seminaries and ministries worldwide. understanding empowers lay people to infuse their Christian 5,964 students participated in courses in hopes that through faith in the institutions, structures, and industries in which them churches will actively teach their congregants a strong they work throughout the week. theology of work that brings the same sense of calling to one’s TOW grants are awarded to theological institutions; both work in the world as one’s work within the Church. formal and non-formal, to create and offer courses that teach The Theology of Work grant program was established in 2007 students a theology of work. The institutions are encouraged in collaboration with Bakke Graduate University (BGU). The to integrate this theology into their core curriculum to aim of this special grant initiative is to enable theological continue to teach the course after the grant-funded classes institutions and training organizations worldwide to instruct are completed. The TOW grant program is administered seminarians, pastors, and educators in a biblical basis of a by BGU, which fosters a network of people and resources theology of work. It is our desire to see those trained through specializing in developing and teaching curriculum for our grants begin teaching and modeling this theological theology of work.

2018 Theology of Work Grant Recipients

Act Bible School Eben-Ezer University of Minembwe Nairobi, KENYA Bujumbura, BURUNDI $3,250 $9,000

Agape Development Initiatives Igreja Emmanuel Evangelica Wesleyana Freetown, SIERRA LEONE Cidade de Nampula, MOZAMBIQUE $6,000 $1,500

Baptist College of Theology Integrity for Excellence Ministries Igede Ekiti, NIGERIA Nairobi, KENYA $10,000 $6,600

Baptist College of Theology New Life Giving Theological College Oyo, NIGERIA Lusaka, ZAMBIA $5,390 $3,685

Centro de Formacao Biblica E Evangelismo Nigerian Fellowship of Evangelical Students Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE Jos, NIGERIA $1,530 $3,154

Daystar University Pambazuko La Maendeleo Kiteto (PAMAKI) Nairobi, KENYA Kiteto, Manyara, TANZANIA $6,100 $7,200

2018 Theology of Work Grant Recipients

Precious Grace Theological Seminary Made to Flourish Offinsu-Kumasi, GHANA Overland Park, KS United States $10,992 $4,500

South Ankole Diocese of the Church of Uganda Regent College Ntungamo, UGANDA Vancouver, BC $10,741 $8,000

St. Paul’s University KENYA $4,200

Bakke Graduate University Dallas, TX United States $8,475.53

Grenada Institute for Theological Education St. George, GRENADA $3,441.28

Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies Memphis, TN United States $7,740

Georgia Global Connections Tblisi, GEORGIA $24,781

Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary Taytay, Rizal, PHILIPPINES $27,960

Bakke Graduate University Dallas, United States $10,000

Kaieteur Falls University West Palm Beach, FL United States $2,400

Light Mission Church Portland, ME United States $15,000