Sixty-eight of our youngest members and their youth leaders, upon engaging with specific ministries, have made decisions to recommend grants to those ministries from accounts set aside for that purpose.
Those accounts are known as “Seed Money” Funds and are provided by the Foundation when these young students join the church. They are designed in part to facilitate family conversations about philanthropy.
At present there are 170 nationalities in Rotterdam. In the Netherlands over 50% of the people are from non-Dutch backgrounds and in the cities it can be as high as 75%.
There are 39 churches in a network in that country that was envision in 2006 by Theo Visser, called Intercultural Church Plants. ICP Netherlands’ goal is to build bridges within the network as well as grow it. Under the leadership of Hans and Carolien Euser, they would like to have one intercultural church per 10,000 of the 4,000,000 non-Dutch in the Netherlands.
The history of Second’s commitment to funding seminarians who are members of our church goes back to at least the early 1960s. A recent bequest of $85,000 has been used to seed the establishment of a Seminarian Support Fund.
Almost 60 years later support for seminarians remains at the heart of the mission. Learn more about how that support came to be, how it continues, and the immeasurable fruit that has come and is yet to come from this investment in spreading the gospel.