ACME Grants
By God's grace, in 2025 ACME was able to fund 43 projects and give away $600,000 to support gospel work around the world.
This grant will aid in covering housing and tuition costs for participants in campus evangelism in a closed country. Program participants will connect local students interested in Bible study with the long-term team starting ministry in the fall of 2025.
Funds construction of a shared facility for worship, training, and education.
Supports purchase of a larger space for unified gatherings and expanded ministry.
Funds purchase or renovation of a church building in an under-resourced region.
Funds purchase of a strategic meeting space for discipleship and community presence.
Supports completion of a church hall, classrooms, and offices.
Supports housing for pastors, missionaries, and interns to expand ministry and church planting.
Supports rental costs for a young church plant in an underserved area.
Funds building acquisition and renovation to create a permanent ministry space.
This grant will contribute to the initial start-up costs for a church plant in Killeen, TX. Funds will be used toward setup costs such as Bibles, discipleship literature, gospel materials, signage, a trailer, chairs, and audiovisual equipment.
Gospel of Christ Church covenanted together on April 6, 2025 in Altadena, CA, a city marked by liberal theology, ethnocentric cults, and gospel ignorance. Funds will contribute to start-up expenses including salary, outreach, and benevolence for Eaton fire victims.
All Saints Bible Church is a recent church plant in an under-churched county. This grant will provide salary support to the lead pastor so he can focus on establishing the church and equipping the congregation.
Evangelische Freikirche Hachinger Tal is a recently planted church. This grant supports a full-time pastor and a trainee to prepare for future church planting.
Immanuel Church of Weymouth is a new church in the Greater Boston area. This grant supports partnership with an evangelical school providing ten years of rent-free Sunday meeting space.
This grant supports pastoral expenses, evangelism materials, and care for vulnerable church members.
Emmanuel Baptist Church started in the summer of 2024. This grant will support the salaries of two pastoral workers laboring for developing gospel ministry in this region.
This grant will help fund rental space for a new church plant in a largely unreached, multi-ethnic city.
Supports a pastor being trained to plant a native-language church in a region with little gospel presence.
Gothenburg 8th Baptist is a faithful church in Sweden preparing future church planters through a three-year training program. This grant will support two future church planters in a church-based program.
McIntosh Baptist Church is a church re-plant in an area with social challenges. This grant will support pastoral salary and building renovations.
Southwest Baptist Church will be replanted in southwest Baltimore. This grant will fund renovation materials for a 130-year-old building.
Supports training initiatives that connect students with local churches and foster spiritual growth.
Funds a multi-use training and ministry center in a least-reached region.
Nine Central Asian elders/elders-in-training from seven different national language churches meet regularly to read and discuss books on healthy church principles. This grant will help send these brothers to a 9Marks International Intensive to learn healthy, baptistic ecclesiology and be better prepared to serve in a country with very few churches.
This grant will support nine French-speaking pastors as they participate in a 9Marks International Intensive. This training event provides an immersive, contextualized, think-tank approach to ecclesiology.
FEG Munich-West is a young church in Germany with a desire to equip qualified young men to become planters and pastors. This grant will help train aspiring elders through a church-based pastoral internship and church planting residency.
Supports renovation of a gifted church building in a rapidly developing but spiritually underserved area.
Funds conferences and creation of resources (books, music, curriculum) to help families practice worship at home.
Supports expansion of a Reformed publishing ministry, including staffing and printing of gospel-centered books.
Supports creation of articles and books in multiple dialects to strengthen local churches.
Funds development of a website to make translated biblical resources more accessible.
This grant will support a cohort of pastors and aspiring pastors from a closed country to be trained in understanding the gospel, conversion, and ecclesiology.
Redeemer Church Cardiff is located in the inner city of Cardiff, Wales. This grant will support the church's residential pastoral intern for the 2025–2026 internship year.
This three-year pastoral residency program at Sellwood Church in Portland, OR, will train, mentor, and provide pastoral ministry experience to aspiring vocational pastors in the Pacific Northwest. This grant will help support the inaugural pastoral resident, enabling the church to better prepare for subsequent residencies.
Men participating in Grace Baptist West Asheville's pastoral residency program are equipped to plant or revitalize churches around the mountain region of Western North Carolina. Residents are required to raise funds that the church will subsequently match. This grant will be used as matching funds for qualified men approved to be the church's pastoral residents.
This grant will support a recently deployed pastor's family in their efforts to strengthen Ballycullen Community Church. This pastor is committed to raising up more leaders and facilitating more church planting and church revitalization efforts. Lord willing, he will plant a new church in a few years.
The Thai church is under-resourced because there are few individuals equipped to translate and produce the tools needed for ministry. This grant will primarily be used to fund an equipping conference for pastors and church leaders as well as an internship program training two Thai believers.
Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church is converting its former youth building into housing for up to six pastoral interns. This grant will be used toward the cost of renovations and will bolster the church's ability to invest in these interns, preparing them for ministry.
Supports training churches to develop real estate for ministry use and long-term sustainability.
The Chicago Course on Preaching aims to develop preachers who are highly skilled in handling God's Word. This grant will help Simeon Trust scholarship students preparing to proclaim God's Word through the church.
Radius International provides pre-field missions training to equip cross-cultural workers to establish healthy, indigenous, reproducing churches among unreached language groups. This grant will contribute to salaries for the indigenous brothers who lead a Radius training center, directly supporting their work of equipping the next generation of indigenous missionaries.
Supports theological training through local professors and visiting lecturers.
Funds purchase and remodeling of a training center to equip church planters and gospel workers.
