Hearts for Jesus

Each year, the Minnesota South District education committee chooses a project to support with their prayers and offerings throughout the school year. Hearts for Jesus is a wonderful opportunity for Lutheran schools and centers to support a designated mission outreach ministry.

During the 2024-2025 , our Hearts for Jesus project is World Vision Ignite. This program equips Christian educators with tools and training to inspire students to live out their faith and become world changers. Visit World Vision Ignite’s website.

Resources include:

• The Chapel Series - 15-minute chapel messages for elementary, middle, or high schoolers? World Vision Ignite’s chapel series combines Scripture with current facts about poverty and an understanding of the goal of knowing God’s heart for your students and the world. Read about the Chapel Series.

• K-12 Curriculum - resources are packed with deep discussions, videos from the mission field, and push students to use their understanding and sphere of influence to bring about global impact, all in the name of Christ. Get the K-12 curriculum.

• Student-Led Projects - step-by-step directions so your students can pull off a “build a kit” project, choose a meaningful cause to support, or give a meaningful gift that will grow in impact and help change lives for good. Choose something school-wide, by class, or in combination. Learn about the student-led projects.

Past Hearts for Jesus projects

2023-2024 Garuna Christian (Lutheran) School #8 in Siem Reap, Cambodia
2022-2023: Ukrainian Refugee Support
2020-2022: School choice - Local ministry partners
2019-2020: Helping Hands Eastern European Ministries (previously Helping Hands Bulgaria)
2018-2019: School choice
2017-2018: Lutheran Special Education Ministries (LSEM)
2016-2017: Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)
2015-2016: Camp Omega
2014-2015: Rebecca’s Garden of Hope
2013-2014: School choice
2012-2013: Children’s Christian Concern Society
2011-2012: Orphan Grain Train
2010-2011: India Evangelical Lutheran Church
2009-2010: Giving Gardens from Wheat Ridge Ministries
2008-2009: Children’s Bibles for Southeast Asia
2007-2008: The Servant’s Heart—Coins for Kids
2006-2007: Samuel’s Gift—Russian Bibles for Children
2005-2006: Helping Hands Bulgaria / Eastern European Ministries
2004-2005: Dirt Biking and Teaching God’s New Shepherds in Togo, West Africa
2003-2004: Educating Missionary Children—LCMS & Kenya’s Children Fund
2002-2003: Mission India’s Rice Bag program
2001-2002: Hope for China from Wheat Ridge Ministries
2000-2001: Lutheran Special Education Ministries (LSEM)