Wish List

Description: This provides $750 scholarships for four students that are renewable for a total of four years.

Our students are thankful:

“Thank you for all the support you give me. This gift towards my tuition lightens my heart. You are fulfilling Galatians chapter 6 as you share my burdens and lighten my load. I give thanks for you!”

“Thank you so much for helping support me financially in my training for the public ministry.  MLC helps equip Christians for service in the church and world.  The scholarship will help support my education in becoming an early childhood teacher. I want all the little children in my future classroom to know that they have a Savior who loved them so much that he died for them. ”

“I would like to thank you again for the scholarship awarded to me last year. Your generous gift has helped me more comfortably finance my college education. I am learning so much about God’s Word and how to incorporate it into every subject.  Thank you also for your prayers for both me and my classmates as we continue to train to become faithful ministers of God’s Word in our respective fields.”

$3,000

Department: Education

Description: This project assists student teachers with the financial burden associated with public school student teaching placement in schools with distances greater than 70 miles round trip. Gas gift cards (in $50 increments) are given to qualifying students – one card to students traveling 70-99 miles round trip, and two cards to students traveling 100 miles or more.

$3,000

Description: We will use your gift to fund short-term missions, also known as Daylight experiences, in this school year.

Every year MLC partners with mission-minded congregations to send MLC students to fill mission needs all over the WELS and in international mission fields. Most mission trips last one week, some up to 10 weeks, but the benefits go on for years. God grows our students through these experiences. Students gain confidence for ministry and insight into ministry in a different setting, perhaps even in a different culture. Future church workers learn from the people with whom they serve to share the gospel in different ways. And they are motivated by their experience sharing the gospel to continue to study for ministry. These short-term mission experiences provide blessings for students that would be difficult to get in any other way. For that reason, MLC offers financial support for students who want to participate. Your gift, given out of love for your Lord and Savior, will make it possible for more students to serve, and more people to be served with the gospel. Thanks be to God!

$2,500

Department: Ladies Auxiliary

Description: Promoting Ladies’ Auxiliary through event sponsorships.

$1,000

Department: Student Life

Description:The Student Life Office is looking to update our snowshoe and ice skate collection in the Outdoor Equipment Room, since most of our current selection are quite worn and/or damaged from extensive use. Any extra funds would be used for other outdoor activity purchases.

$2,000

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Department: Education/Staff Ministry Seniors

Description:Each fall our education and staff ministry seniors attend a retreat designed to help them grow in gospel-focused resilience as they prepare to enter the public ministry. As part of that, we use the Clifton Strengths inventory, an assessment tool that helps them understand their unique God-given strengths. President Gurgel, who is a Gallup Certified Strength Coach, also offers to meet with any retreat attendee who would like to receive one-on-one coaching from a Christ-centered perspective. This grant will cover a portion of the total cost of $4,000.

$2,000

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Department: History

Description: This book, authored by Ted Hartwig, is out of print but is instructive for our general education Western Civilization students. It contains primary source documents with helpful introductions that support the readings. Reading history written by people who were living it is the best way to have students grapple with the thoughts and issues of human experience. Work has started, but much remains to be done. This grant will allow us to obtain all legal copyrights and complete the necessary file work to have it ready for republication.

$2,000

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Department: Women’s Softball

Description:The softball team is seeking funding to acquire a set of pullovers with numbers on the back so that they can be worn during gameplay. Our current warmup coats are over 15 years old and cannot be worn in gameplay because they don’t have the identifying player numbers on the back. We’d like to have something we can wear during a game due to playing in such cold conditions. These will keep the players warmer and look more uniform while on the field both before and during a game.

$1,320

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Department: Early Childhood Learning Center

Description:Our children put many miles on our tricycles each year. The trikes we currently have are well-loved. We’d like to start the replacement process so our children can keep riding into future years. These tricycles are designed specifically for the wear and tear of a facility like ours.

$1,685

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Department: Math/Science

Description:This FLIR C5 Compact Thermal Imaging Camera would be used every semester in Physical Science, a course most students at MLC take. It would also be used in Thermodynamics and the Properties of Matter, a course taken by middle/secondary physics majors. The camera allows the imaging of infrared waves in order to photo/video heat flow.

$700

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Department: Student Life, Faculty, and Staff

Description:Puzzling has caught on with the students, faculty, and staff. We’d like to provide a way for everyone on campus to join in the fun. These boards make it easy to house and organize puzzles so assembling a large, complicated one is simpler and involves more of the campus family. Boards would go to the following places: eight in dorms, one in the library, and one in the faculty/staff lounge.

$600

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Department: Music

Description: We would like to purchase a music folder cabinet for storing music that is currently being studied in rehearsals and performances. Wind Symphony as an ensemble has grown by more than 40% this year, and our current folder cabinet no longer accommodates the number of folders we use. We’ll repurpose the existing folder cabinet for storing music for smaller ensembles.

$1,500

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Department: Athletics Teams/Phy Ed Courses

Description:This will function as a digital clock, timer, and way to play music in the Betty Kohn Fieldhouse. There is currently nothing in the facility that fulfills these needs.

$350

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Department: Women’s Volleyball

Description:I am asking the generous donors of the MLC Ladies’ Auxiliary to consider funding the additional travel expenses due to the larger team roster. The Fall 2025 Women’s Volleyball team is blessed to have a total of 18 players, more than previous seasons. That means additional hotel rooms for away games. This is a growing year for the team, since there are no seniors this year. This is a wonderful opportunity to help train leaders from their beginning journey at MLC. As coaches of the team, we are able to share with each player valuable lessons that directly benefit the students whom they will eventually teach.

$750

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