WELS Christian Aid and Relief provides care through humanitarian aid grants

To help carry out its ministry of compassion, WELS Christian Aid and Relief announced that it has approved $426,357 to support humanitarian aid projects in WELS mission fields throughout the United States and worldwide for fiscal year 2025-26.

“These grants are huge for our missions,” shares Rev. Dan Sims, director of WELS Christian Aid and Relief. “They provide an opportunity to show compassion to those who are struggling and lead to many conversations about our compassionate Savior.”

The humanitarian aid projects supported by the grants take many forms, including health care for the sick and dying, borehole drilling to provide clean drinking water, food and warm clothing, school supplies for underprivileged kids, assistance for legal immigrants, scholarships for poor students, mosquito nets, and vocational training.

Amazing Grace, Amarillo, Texas, plans to use grant funds in multiple ways—providing school supplies to kids in need, delivering meals door to door in community neighborhoods, and helping feed those who are homeless.

Hans Thomford, pastor at Amazing Grace, says, “These grants help us to love our community and put ourselves and our new mission around even more people in need of Jesus’ love and forgiveness! The compassion net can really go a great distance with these funds.”

View a complete list of the humanitarian aid projects supported by WELS Christian Aid and Relief through your offerings.

To learn more about the work of WELS Christian Aid and Relief or to support its ministry, visit wels.net/relief.