The Vision Fund

An Exciting Update from the Vision Fund Team!

To all churches of the Presbytery of the Western Reserve, Presbytery committees, networks, and commissions: the Vision Fund Team is pleased to share with you the nine requests that have been granted so far in 2024:

David LaMotte Concert/Workshop — Committee on Leadership — $2,800
Pastor’s Sabbatical — Lyndhurst Community of Faith Church — $1,000
Crucial Conversations — John Knox — $1,150
Homeless Throw Projec — St Marks — $2,000
Summer Saturday Child Nutrition Project — Bethany — $2,000
Neighborhood Outreach — North Church — $5,000
Saturday Tutoring Program — Church of the Covenant— $3,000
Rev. Jermaine Ross-Allam Visit — Forest Hill Church — $3,000
Cultivating the Gift of Preaching — Noble Road — $2,000

What creative ministries! Could your creative ministry be improved with a Vision Fund grant? Be creative with your grant request. We seek to address the three areas of Matthew 25: building congregational vitality, dismantling structural racism, or eradicating systemic poverty. See the information and application below to get started!


The Presbytery of the Western Reserve has established The Vision Fund to focus on the following three specific areas of the Matthew 25 Initiative: to build congregational vitality, to dismantle structural racism, and to eradicate systemic poverty.

To enable your project or work that contributes to any of these, the Vision and Mission Task Force, working with the Vision Fund Team, invites you or your group to complete the following electronic grant application, sharing your vision, your purpose, and your contact information. The team will review your application and, if approved, a grant will be disbursed.

Please note the suggested amount thresholds per application and number of applications allowed per year:

Individual - $1000 per application, 1/year
Member Church - $5000 per application, 2/year
Presbytery Committee - $4000 per application, 3/year
Presbytery Network - $2000 per application, 2/year
Other Entity or Presbytery Partner - $1500 per application, 1/year

Grant applications can be accepted anytime throughout the year and are considered on a rolling basis during the months of February, April, June, August, October, and November. To be considered in a particular month, applications must be completed by the first of that month. Due to the time needed to process applications, we ask that grant applications be completed no later than November 1 for funds to be dispersed in the current calendar year.

If your project or work lies outside of the three Matthew 25 areas, please note the Presbytery can still help. You can see other sources of funding at our information page here.

If you’d like to download a PDF version of this cover letter, you can do so here.