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Connecting all generations to Christ and community
Advent & Christmas at CLC
Gather for the many prayerful, festive opportunities this Advent/Christmas season, which begins on Sunday, November 30th, and continues through the month of December. So much hope, so much joy, so much sharing of the Christmas story in word and song. Join us!
restoring Radiance
CLC Stained glass window project
!!!BIG NEWS!!!
Canton Lutheran Church Receives National Grant Funding
THANKS BE TO GOD!
Canton Lutheran Church has been awarded $185,245 from the National Fund for Sacred Places, a program of Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Restoring Radiance Committee submitted the extensive grant application in late February. In June, the Committee was informed that CLC was among a limited number of applicants invited to submit an Additional Information Application. In July, that application was submitted. And on October 21st, the grant recipients were publicly announced!
Canton Lutheran is one of 30 organizations who will cumulatively receive over $8.7 million in funding this year. It is interesting to note that there are two other Lutheran Churches, both ELCA, who are also 2025 grant recipients. Those sister churches are in Kansas and Washington D.C. Canton Lutheran Church is the first South Dakota organization selected to receive this grant in the nine years this grant program has existed.
The National Fund for Sacred Places grant requires a dollar-for-dollar match, so CLC’s grant will cover half of the estimated cost for Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the CLC Restoring Radiance stained glass window restoration project. That means that we have much work to do … but what an incredibly amazing gift!
If you would like to learn more about this program and the 2025 grant recipients, visit https://www.fundforsacredplaces.org/.
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT: Every gift matched through December 31st!
Thanks to a generous anonymous supporter, every donation made to the Restoring Radiance project between now and December 31st will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $25,000. This means that for your gifts during this period, the impact will be doubled—your contribution will go twice as far in helping us reach our fundraising goal.
Something to remember:
1 - When you make a gift to the CLC Restoring Radiance project, please label your check, or indicate in a note or email, that your gift is for Restoring Radiance.
2 - Gifts to special projects like this – though very important – are ‘above and beyond’ gifts … meaning they are not meant to replace our regular giving to the church. We still have the ongoing budget needs.
Canton Lutheran Church has much for which to be grateful in this season of ministry. Thanks be to God from whom all blessings flow!
