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Grants are often an untapped resource for a church building campaign or capital project. While churches should consider many sources of funding, including loans and fundraising, grants can provide a solid resource for developing and improving church property and facilities. Many grants to help build churches are denominationally or regionally focused, though, so they will often take a little more work to locate.

Building Needs

Even before you look for funding, consider the church’s overall vision for the property and the buildings. What will your needs be for the completed building project? Which staff will need office space, which supplies will need storage, and what events will occur on the property? What programs will be housed in the completed buildings? Completing a facility needs analysis will help with fundraising, as well as provide the necessary paperwork for grant applications. Most granters will require formal documentation of your church’s facility needs.

Comprehensive Plans

In addition to analyzing needs, your church should begin to plan the overall building project. At this stage, consider hiring a consultant to guide you through the process and to assist with hiring the necessary contractors, such as the architect and the construction company. Even if you do not choose to work with a church building consultant, you will need to assign oversight of the various stages of the building project. An administrative team will be needed to handle fundraising, as well as delegation of work to the appropriate committees and work groups. Granters will require that your church building project has appropriate oversight of financing, design, assessment, and other areas.

Potential Granters

Many private organizations and foundations provide funds for church building projects. Some of these granters are denominational or regional organizations, such as the WELS Church Extension Fund, Inc., which funds land purchases or building projects for mission congregations of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The Foundation Center maintains an exhaustive database of privately-funded grants, including those targeted at regional and local churches. Even though government grants are not available to fund the building of a church, a variety of federal grants are available to non-profit organizations that meet specific community needs, such as operating programs for the homeless, at-risk youth, ex-offenders, substance abusers, and more. Your church may be able to offset some of the overall building costs through a federal grant. For example, if your church’s facility needs analysis includes affordable housing units for welfare-to-work families, then you may be able to qualify for federal funds to cover that part of the capital project.

Additional Options

In addition to researching traditional grant sources when preparing to fund a capital campaign, consider what other forms of funding might be available. These can include construction loans, church bonds, and fundraising campaigns. Exploring additional funding options can help to distribute the cost of building a church among a variety of sources. Some organizations may not be able to provide funds but may be able to donate building supplies, construction expertise, or other resources. Communicate with local organizations early on and throughout the course of the building project, so that they know what you need and how they might help.

Other Considerations

When building a church, early planning and assistance can be one of the most important steps toward a successful capital campaign. Problems and complications often occur as a result of insufficient information and ineffective planning, and the further into the capital building project a church is, the more complicated and costly it will be to fix problems. Also, consider the grantor-grantee relationship as an ongoing, long-term one. Staying connected with granters can provide avenues for potential funding in the future. Easy ways to maintain this relationship include sending event invitations, media updates and annual reports to the granting organization on a regular basis.

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A federal judge for now has stopped the deportation of a group of Christian Indonesian nationals in New Jersey, including one seeking sanctuary in a church and two others who the church’s co-pastor has said were picked up by immigration authorities in late January.

The temporary restraining order, issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in New Jersey, applies to all Indonesian nationals under the jurisdiction of the Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) field office in Newark with final orders of removal before 2009, but who were allowed to remain in the U.S. provided they checked in regularly with ICE officials.

“These community members, our neighbors, are entitled to argue their case with the protections of due process, especially when the stakes are life-and-death,” Amol Sinha, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.

The lawsuit, filed by the ACLU and Paul Weiss, a law firm appearing pro bono, argued it was a constitutional violation to round up the Indonesians without notice on removal orders that predate a recent uptick in violence against Christians in Indonesia.

According to the 2010 Indonesia census, Christians are the largest religious minority in Indonesia, with 7 percent of the population identifying as Protestant and 2.9 percent identifying as Roman Catholic. Approximately 87.2 of the country’s population identified as Muslim.

The lawsuit also claimed that a summary deportation deprives the Indonesians a chance to argue for asylum.

The ACLU said U.S. law prohibits the removal of those who’d likely face persecution or torture. The group said courts have ruled that Christians, especially of Chinese descent, would encounter this risk in Indonesia.

ICE said in a statement Monday that it was aware of the district court’s decision and was considering its legal options.

“Our immigration system provides extensive legal process for aliens who have violated our laws, and ICE believes that these individuals have already availed themselves of this process and that the removal orders they received as part of that process should be executed,” ICE wrote in an email.

The judge’s order comes about a week after Harry Pangemanan sought refuge in the Reformed Church of Highland Park when ICE agents allegedly tried to pick him up.

That same day, Jan. 25, Roby Sangr and Gunawan Liem were taken into custody by ICE, according to the Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, co-pastor of the Reformed Church of Highland Park.

The men arrived in the United States on tourist visas, which they overstayed, Kaper-Dale has said.

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Pangemanan, Sangr and Liem are among the plaintiffs named in the suit. They all have children who are U.S. citizens, according to the ACLU.

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Pangemanan joined two other men who have also been holed up in the Reformed Church of Highland Park, which first provided immigrant sanctuary in 2012.

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The ACLU said dozens of Christians in New Jersey, including those in the lawsuit, identified themselves to ICE back in 2009 as part of a program granting work authorization and stays of deportation in exchange for their coming out of the shadows.

The agreement was brokered between ICE and Kaper-Dale, according to the ACLU.

Thousands of Christians in the ’90s fled Indonesia as a new regime targeting Christians took over, the ACLU said.

Friday’s ruling in New Jersey follows another a day earlier in a similar ACLU case brought in Massachusetts.

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In that one, a federal judge barred the government from deporting dozens of Christian Indonesians in New Hampshire, who fear persecution if returned home, until they’ve had a chance to fight their removal.

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