ACME Grants
By God's grace, in 2026 ACME was able to fund 43 projects and give away $800,000 to support gospel work around the world.
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 provide scholarship funds to Radius training for 2 students from ACME churches, enabling students to only need to fundraise for 20% of the total program cost.
Across Campus bridges the gap between campus life and the local church by equipping students to grow in their faith while fostering a deep connection to a healthy, local church. This grant will support startup costs for the organization including legal expenses and publicity efforts.
FBC Lisbon is a church revitalization and seminary seeking to strengthen its ministry and pastoral training efforts in a country where fewer than 2% of people identify as evangelical. This grant will support the deployment of a missionary to assist in revitalization and pastoral training efforts.
The Saphan Siam Conference 2026 in Thailand will equip pastors, missionaries, and church leaders through biblical teaching, training, and theological resources. This ACME grant will support conference logistics, scholarships for local leaders, and resource production that strengthens gospel-centered ministry across Thailand.
Bangkok City Baptist Church has experienced steady growth the past 4 years through regular preaching, evangelism, and regional ministry. This grant will help expand its meeting space to accommodate increasing attendance and support training, publishing, and care for missionaries and believers serving throughout Asia.
Imprint equips church leaders for gospel ministry through internships and pastoral training programs. ACME funds will help expand accommodation and training facilities, enabling Imprint to train more pastors and strengthen churches across Africa.
Iglesia Bautista Fe in Seville, Spain, is purchasing a permanent facility for its growing congregation and to expand its training ministries for pastors and missionaries. Lord willing, this will directly contribute to planting healthy churches in unreached Spanish towns and sending missionary teams to pioneer and support existing efforts in North Africa.
Tranent Community Church, a 20schemes church planted in 2026, aims to establish a long-term presence and the first evangelical witness in the impoverished town of Tranent. This grant will help complete the renovation of a building in the center of town on High Street where the church can gather weekly for worship and host discipleship and evangelistic Bible studies throughout the week.
Trinity Baptist Church of Taichung seeks to establish a permanent gathering space to support its growing congregation and ministry in a country with few healthy churches. ACME funds will help make the facility move-in ready, providing a stable location for worship, discipleship, translation and publishing work, and training events that strengthen churches across the region.
All Saints Bible Church, an ACME church planted in Everson, Washington. This grant supports repairs for a centrally located, historic church building that recently suffered flood damage, providing a stable gathering place for worship and a base for pastoral training and future church planting in NW Washington.
Funds from this grant will help establish a new, English-language congregation in a southern city in Central Asia by supporting the rental of meeting space and purchase of gospel materials and church supplies.
Providence Church is a church plant in Huntertown, a growing city in Indiana in need of healthy churches. Grant funds will contribute to start up costs for the church, including rent and necessary equipment for Sunday worship.
Greater Glory Church is a new church plant in northern Macomb County, Michigan, preparing to covenant together as a congregation in September 2026. ACME funds will help secure its first gathering space.
Emmanuel Baptist Church is a faithful gospel witness in Nairobi, Kenya, and will soon plant a new church in the rapidly growing town of Ongata Rongai in South Nairobi. ACME funds will support this effort as the church sends an elder and 30 members to establish a faithful gospel witness in an area with few sound, gospel-preaching churches.
This one-year church planting residency will prepare 2 church planting residents who intend to mobilize and launch a group to plant a church in a needed part of a city in East Asia.
Jesus Our Redeemer Church is a historic Baptist church in downtown Baltimore. This grant will support the church's revitalization efforts by contributing to the salary of a full-time pastor working to strengthen the multiethnic congregation and advance faithful preaching, discipleship, and outreach in South Baltimore.
Foothill Baptist Church in Los Altos, CA, is pursuing a replant strategy that includes strengthening its outreach to nearby Stanford University, where there is little faithful gospel presence. This grant will help support an Associate Pastor for College Ministry who will focus on evangelism, discipleship, and student leadership development.
Emmanuel Baptist Church in Exeter, United Kingdom, is seeking to strengthen its ministry among university students by connecting them to a healthy local church. This grant will support gathering space, meals, discipleship opportunities, and retreats as the church seeks to reach and disciple students with the gospel.
These funds will assist nationals in traveling to Radius in Mexico to complete rigorous missionary training. Once successful, these men will provide the foundational leadership and excellence required to replicate the Radius program in their home country and language.
20schemes is launching the digital delivery of the Ragged School of Theology to equip pastors and church leaders serving in Scotland's housing schemes and remote regions. These funds will help develop course materials, expand online access to areas such as the Highlands and Islands, and strengthen the administrative capacity needed to train indigenous leaders for healthy churches.
Glory Community Church is an ACME Member Church in Decatur, AL. In January 2024, the church experienced a fire that destroyed their building, and this grant will contribute to costs for building a new church home. GCC hopes to break ground on the new building in 2026.
ACME funds will support a strategic internship providing new believers with job skills, regular discipleship, and connection to a local church. This program addresses two critical needs—meaningful work and church community—among unreached people groups in Central Asia.
Great Commission Council, a network of experienced missionaries, developed a comprehensive resource to strengthen biblical, church-centered missions. ACME funds will help support GCC's 2026 gathering, where this work will be presented to train missionaries, pastors, and ministry leaders and help reorient modern missions toward a more faithful approach.
The Haynes School of Ministry is the newly launched training arm of New England Urban Church Planting. This grant will help raise visibility, recruit, and train pastors to plant in New England's neglected urban neighborhoods.
This grant will support expenses for a church planting team in a Closed Country to learn the country's majority language. Proficiency in the majority language will enable them to start a business and transition into a minority language context to plant healthy churches and support Scripture translation.
Church in Hard Places (CiHP) trains leaders to lead healthy churches through a two-year pastoral apprenticeship program and regional intensive gatherings. This grant will help fund CiHP's first regional intensive in a Central Asian country which will equip elder-qualified men to preach expository sermons and faithfully handle the word of God.
A native-language church plant is preparing to covenant together as a new congregation in September 2026. ACME funds will support the pastor, meeting space, and ministry resources to establish a healthy gospel witness among the native-language-speaking population, where very few faithful churches exist.
Gospel at the Center Publishing in Poland translates and publishes Reformed resources to strengthen pastors and churches. This grant will support this translation work in a country where evangelical believers make up a very small minority and access to sound theological resources is limited.
This pastoral internship in Corvallis, OR, will provide mentorship and hands-on ministry training for men pursuing pastoral and church-centered campus ministry. This grant will support the internship as it equips future workers with a robust theology of the church and ministry in the midst of a secular university community.
North Point Baptist Church's pastoral residency program in Nairobi equips men through intensive training in the life and ministry of the local church. This grant will support residents preparing for ministry in regions with significant need, while strengthening the pipeline of healthy church leaders in a city where many are influenced by prosperity theology.
This project will provide theological and ecclesiological training to indigenous church planters and pastors who are in their third year of training. It will also support efforts to plant churches in the Central Asia region.
This grant will equip a cohort of aspiring pastor-scholars for indigenous pastoral and seminary ministry through training in biblical languages, theology, and practical ministry. Their preparation will help build a healthy gospel infrastructure and raise up future generations of indigenous pastors.
Central Africa Baptist University trains pastors and ministry leaders from across the continent for faithful gospel ministry in their local churches. This grant will help support the training of 10 students in a context where many pastors lack formal theological education and the need for biblically grounded leadership is urgent.
Plymouth Township Baptist Church is a recent church plant in Southeast Michigan near Ann Arbor and Detroit. This grant will support the lead pastor, who is currently bi-vocational, and help fund discipleship and evangelism ministries as the church seeks to model a biblically healthy congregation in a region marked by nominal Christianity.
This grant will support the establishment of a printing house and multipurpose media space in Ivory Coast. These resources will equip pastors and churches across French-speaking West Africa by strengthening theological training and raising up a new generation of African authors.
This project seeks to translate, publish, and distribute biblical resources in East Asia, making these resources easily available in various formats to support the health of native language speaking churches.
El Redil del Sur, a church in Medellín, Colombia, aims to purchase a permanent facility. In a context where healthy evangelical churches are a minority, ACME funds will help acquire a building that allows the church to gather as one assembly and provides space for worship, discipleship, schooling, pastoral training, and biblical counseling.
This project seeks to purchase property and construct a multi-purpose facility in a Closed Country that will provide the church with a permanent gathering space. This will give the church lasting stability and create a strong foundation for training and sending out church-planting teams made up of both global workers and local believers.
ACME funds will contribute to the purchase and renovation of a multi-use property in a Closed Country which will serve as a strategic hub for Christian ministry while supporting outreach among surrounding unreached and hard-to-reach people groups.
Iglesia Bautista Temple Hills is a recently planted Spanish-speaking church in the DC metro area (Temple Hills, MD), seeking to be a faithful gospel witness among a large Hispanic community with few doctrinally sound congregations. This grant supports a church planter's salary and ministry resources.
This ACME grant will help establish a business platform in Southeast Asia that provides access to an unreached people group in a closed country. This enterprise will create opportunities to build redemptive relationships in the community and support a faithful long-term presence among those with little access to the gospel.
This grant will help establish a dedicated training center in Southeast Asia to equip locals to take the Gospel to spiritually challenging regions of their country. This new facility will provide stability and sustainability for mentoring, discipleship, training, and leadership development.
The FEG Munich Center in Munich, Germany, operates a pastoral trainee program aimed at raising up faithful pastors and church planters for German-speaking Europe. ACME funds will help support a pastoral trainee and sustain this strategically important program, which has trained more than 20 graduates since 2014 who now serve in ministry across the region.
