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How Be the Blessing Grants Came to Be

Over the past year we’ve invited everyone to come back to in-person worship at Ascension and experience the power and joy of worshiping God and coming together as a community. And guess what? You’ve responded. Together we Get the Blessing.

Now we invite you to Be the Blessing!

At Ascension, our response to God’s love and blessing has always been to turn around and share our blessings with others, especially the disadvantaged in our congregation, the community and the world. It’s built into Ascension’s DNA.

Ascension’s Be the Blessing endeavor is here. We’ve set aside a substantial amount of funding to start new ministries and to help our current ministries expand. We have also set up a process by which our members can request funding on projects that serve others.

We want you to dream big. Think about how you can supercharge the work of your current ministry or committee or task force, whether that’s Global Ministries, something School or Early Childhood Center-related, Community Concerns, something else. Or is there a project of service to others that you’ve been dying to get off the ground? Pursue that.

Talk with others. Discuss this in your ministry group meetings. Dream together.

Then share with us your initial thoughts, by emailing us at

These are exciting times at One Ascension. And this is yet another way that, together, we can Be the Blessing!

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Be the Blessing

When God blesses us, He calls us to share that blessing with others—to be the blessing ourselves! Ascension is up to something exciting this year, in fact, we've set aside substantial funds for our members to be the blessing. HERE is the story of how it came together and why it matters so much.

To Apply:

Step 1: Identify a need for which you’d like to request funds.

Step 2: If appropriate, enlist others who might help you fill that need in ministry.

Step 3: Fill out and submit the Grant Request Form -- ONLINE, below, or download and fill in this print version and send it to the Be the Blessing Grant Committee c/o Ascension.

Step 4: Use the grant money and engage in the ministry you’ve identified.

Step 5: Within two weeks of engaging in that ministry fill out and submit the Feedback Form -- ONLINE, below, or download and fill in this print version and send it -- along with any photos or video you have taken of the activity.

Step 6: CONGRATULATIONS! You're about to be the blessing.

Be the Blessing Grant Criteria

1. Grant requests must be initiated by or processed through a member of One Ascension.

2. Proposals should align with Ascension’s mission: "We are called to create opportunities for all people to become devoted followers of Christ."

3. Proposals should be for service ministries, external or internal, with an emphasis on those that offer strong benefit to the community.

4. Proposals should be accomplishable and reasonable, with the amount of money requested appropriate to complete the project.

5. Projects that will have a long-term impact or which will self-sustain over time will be prioritized. But one-time projects are also encouraged.

6. Is this a project that other ministries at Ascension could or should fund — or already fund?

Click here to view and/or download a complete list of Ascension's Ministries.

Would you like to get involved in ministry but aren't sure where you best fit?

**Click here for Ministries and Spiritual Gifts Assessment.**

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How Be the Blessing Grants Came to Be

Welcome to

When God blesses us, He calls us to share that blessing with others—to be the blessing ourselves! Ascension is up to something exciting this year, in fact, we've set aside substantial funds for our members to be the blessing. HERE is the story of how it came together and why it matters so much.

To Apply:

Be the Blessing Grant Criteria

Click here to view and/or download a complete list of Ascension's Ministries.

Would you like to get involved in ministry but aren't sure where you best fit?

**Click here for Ministries and Spiritual Gifts Assessment.**

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