Thank you Concordia Lutheran Ministries/Angel Tear Ministries, for your partnership in our ministry!

Already this year, you have helped make it possible for:

1. Medical Missionary Sarah Kanoy to teach women’s health issues to the wives of seminary students in Togo.
2. Medical Missionary Jamielynn Tinkey to take part in a LCMS Mercy Medical Team clinic in Tanzania.
3. Medical Missionaries Stephanie Schulte and Sarah Kanoy to complete a course in Global Health and Tropical Medicine,
4. Nurses Sharon Thomas and Megan Steele to teach women’s health issues in Seine, Bight, Belize.

LIMM is now accepting new grant requests. LIMM is a RSO of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Please make sure your proposal meets our focus and mission, and that it will further our goals and extend the ministry of the Gospel.

• Projects should have a mission emphasis; used to improve quality of life/health.
• Link health professionals & other committed workers with those in need.
• Network with medical mission sending agencies.
• Educate people about the potential for opportunities for involvement in health and healing ministries. LIMM promotes Community Health Education (CHE).

Projects should be current and ready for implementation within the year. Ninety percent of grant money should be used for programs. The maximum amount requested should not exceed $5,000 per year. Only one grant application per ministry per year will be considered. Grants are chosen by a majority vote of the Lutherans in Medical Missions Board of Directors.Upon receipt of this application, you will be notified of the Board’s decision within 60 days.  Please email the form to limm@limm.org.

For more information, contact Rita Nickel at 904-806-8679 or timritanickel@gmail.com.

To view the LIMM Grant Application Form, please click here:

Word document – LIMM Grant Application Form – Final

PDF – LIMM Grant Application Form – Final

Sarah Kanoy and Stephanie Schulte are Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod Medical Missionaries, serving our Lord and His Church in Africa. These two amazing women shine like bright stars, pointing the way to Christ and sharing His great love with all whom they meet. LIMM is happy to announce that because of your donations, we are able to provide the funds for them to attend “The Christian Health Service Corps Global Heath and Tropical Medicine Overview 2018,” this June in Texas. If you would like to help us continue our support of Sarah, Stephanie and other medical missionaries who serve so tirelessly, visit our website (limm@limm.org) to donate. We cannot all be there in person to serve beside them, but we can be there in prayer and provision. We are all, each one of us, missionaries. If not, why are earth are we here?

Sarah Kanoy

Stephanie Schulte

LIMM is happy to introduce to you Jamielynn Tinkey and to share the good news that thanks to you, we are able to provide a $1500 travel grant so that she can be part of a Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Mercy Medical Team (MMT) this spring.

“My name is Jamielynn Tinkey, and I serve as a GEO Missionary to the Latin America and Caribbean Region of mission through the LCMS Office of International Ministry! I am 23 years old, a registered nurse and I currently serve on the regional team as the Human Care Coordinator for our missionaries and their families serving in 10 distinct countries across Latin America. I am delighted to be able to join the upcoming Mercy Medical Team to Tanzania and work alongside missionaries and team members to provide care, both physically and spiritually. Not only that, but my team throughout Latin America looks forward to working alongside LIMM and MMTs in the future. Because of this travel grant, I am able to make this trip, where I can put my skills to work as our team serves and learns together! Thank you, LIMM!!”

Sarah Kanoy and Stephanie Schulte are home from West Africa. Please click the link below to read about how God is at work through Women’s Health Education!

Sarah Kanoy – The Gift of Understanding

Below is a note from Stephanie Schulte:

Stephanie Schulte – West Africa

Sarah Kanoy is a friend of LIMM and of every one of you. Your donations in the past made it possible for Sarah, along with Stephanie Schulte and Molly Christensen, to complete Community Health Education “Train the Trainer” courses before heading to Africa. Next month the three of them will present a “Women’s Cycle of Life” Seminar in West Africa, providing much needed knowledge that will in turn be shared by those attending with many others.
We will be posting more from Sarah and Steph during the seminar, and wanted you to see the Thank You below. Sarah thanks you and so do we!

Please click here to read Sarah’s thank you Thank you for LIMM – Sarah Kanoy

LIMM welcomes Drs. Joel and Scarlet Holcombe to our Board of Directors. Joel and Scarlet live in Tallahassee, FL. They actually met on a mission trip, and their love for short term missions has not decreased. Joel is an emergency medicine physician, working at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie, Georgia. Scarlet is a PharmD, and has worked in various medical centers as a staff pharmacist, as well as Director of Pharmacy at Capitol Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee.  They work with Medical Mission Teams, a non-profit medical mission group that they founded, and focus on short term mission trips, serving as mentors/preceptors to pharmacy students from Mercer University on trips to Kenya, Guatemala and Madagascar.  Scarlet also serves on the admission committee of Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy. They have served on too many short term trips to count (way over 50) to areas including Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Indonesia, Myanmar, Belize, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras. We are honored to have them join us with their passion for missions and education, and look forward to their contributions to our future endeavors.

LIMM is pleased to announce the awarding of two new grants this fall:

$5000 to the Lutheran Hospital Antsirabe, Madagascar Emergency Fund. The staff of the Lutheran Hospital of Madagascar works ​tirelessly to serve those in their care who often have no means to pay for medications, treatments or surgery. This grant will be used to meet the needs of those patients. ​

Children waiting for clinic in Madagascar

$5000 to Concordia Welfare & Education Foundation (CWEF) Health Education: Advocacy and Literacy (HEAL) Program, Cambodia.​​ In its third year, the HEAL program in the village of Spean Chrey has already provided sanitary latrines for families and conducted several health and wellness trainings for the HEAL advocates, who then share what they learn with the community. The teaching method used in the trainings engages the participants in a process of reflection and action, equipping and empowering them to find sustainable solutions to their problems.

Children in Spean Chrey village

We will be sharing stories from Madagascar and Cambodia in the weeks to come. It is your support that makes it possible to provide grants such as these. We thank God for each of you!