MINNEAPOLIS (Oct. 29, 2003) -- The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation has approved a $25,000 grant to the Center for Asian Missions and Evangelism (CAME), Alexandria, Va.  The grant supports a project titled "Preparing Congregational Leaders for Asian Outreach in the New Millennium."
     "Thrivent Financial members recognize the need for the Lutheran Church to reach beyond its traditional ethnic and cultural boundaries," said Jim Yagow, manager of the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation.  "The Center for Asian Missions and Evangelism is an outstanding resource in educating Lutheran Church Missouri Synod congregations of the need to reach rapidly growing Asian-American communities with the Gospel and in providing training and coordination to make this outreach possible."
     CAME is an independently operated, non-profit, 501(c)3 organization affiliated with the Lutheran Church ? Missouri Synod (LCMS).  It serves as the official arm of LCMS mission work among Asian-Americans in North America and is part of a ministry consortium with 13 LCMS districts.  The organization exists to equip and empower congregations to reach out to the 97% of Asian-Americans who are unchurched.  To learn more about CAME, visit:  www.cameministries.org.

     The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation is a private foundation funded by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.  As a 501(c)(3) organization with its own board of trustees, the foundation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary and education purposes and makes grants and gifts to 501(c)(3) exempt organizations.  The Foundation does not provide grants to individuals.  To learn more about the Foundation and its programs, visit:  www.thrivent.com/fraternal/foundation  

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