Category: Grants

One of our biggest desires is to help facilitate face-to-face connection between brethren from across the Church of God. The COG Fellowship Events program awards micro-grants to individuals and Church congregations to help sponsor fellowship events that are open to brethren from all Church of God organizations. Back in March, CGN awarded a COG Fellowship […]

We are thrilled to announce that Debbie Bensinger is joining the CGN team as the new program manager for the Within Your Gates program! Seth Forrestier (program founder) will remain involved to consult and continue to share his personal network with CGN. Debbie Bensinger (née Roemer) is third-generation raising a fourth generation in the Church […]

We are excited to announce our next COG Fellowship Events grantee: Leah Keim Leah, with the help of Hillary and Joe Egert and other brethren, will be hosting an informational/fellowship event for the local community on Sunday, April 3rd at Papa Bear’s Italian Restaurant in Canton, Ohio. The event will have two primary goals: 1) […]

We’re excited to announce the next recipient of the Educational & Business Development grant program: Bupe Sakala. She is a member of the Living Church of God in Zambia. Bupe is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in accounting. She is one semester away from graduation and plans to use her grant to finish her Bachelor’s! […]

We’re excited to announce that our next recipient of the Educational & Business Development grant program is George Agyapong! He is a member of the Church of God International in Ghana. George is currently training to become a physician’s assistant. He plans to use his CGN grant to purchase medical books and pay some of […]

Happy two year anniversary to CGN’s Educational and Business Development Grants program! The purpose of the Educational and Business Development grant program is to help Church of God brethren in developing countries start successful, profitable, and sustainable businesses, or obtain training or education for jobs that will provide a reliable source of income. We do […]

We’re excited to announce that our next recipient of an Educational & Business Development grant is Musonda Sakala! Musonda lives in Zambia and is a member of Church of the Great God. Musonda runs a natural/organic skincare business. She produces handmade natural/organic soaps, lotions, scrubs, and body oils. She started the business as a result of […]

We are thrilled to announce the very first grantee of our Church of God Fellowship Events program: Crystal Mullen One of our biggest desires is to help facilitate face-to-face connection between brethren and the COG Fellowship Events program works toward that end! The COG Fellowship Events program awards micro-grants to individuals and Church congregations to […]

This quarter, the recipient of our Educational & Business Development grant is Edward Manda! Edward lives in Zambia and is a member of the Living Church of God. He received an impressive letter of recommendation from his local minister and we are excited for his project! Edward plans to use the grant funds to start […]

CGN once again received several extremely impressive and viable applications to our Educational & Business Development grant program. For this reason we once again decided to award grants to two individuals! Our first grantee is Franck Eyega. Franck lives in Cameroon, West Africa and is a member of the Messenger Church of God. Franck’s project […]