Discipleship Ministries Sam Taylor Trust Fund grants are intended to develop, promote and administer adult educational projects in the State of Texas through short-term conferences, workshops, seminars, consultations, public media, and/or experimental adult education endeavors. Grants are available for United Methodist programs that support adult education as described above and are administered in consultation with appropriate local constituents in the State of Texas and approved by the governing board of Discipleship Ministries.

These Christian education efforts must be designed for adults, in Texas, for Texans. This could include training for adults working with children and/or youth.

The mission of Discipleship Ministries (also known as the General Board of Discipleship) is “to challenge and support local church and annual conference leaders for their task of making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.”

Discipleship Ministries' strategic priorities are to:

Improve disciple-making systems in existing local churches; Increase engagement with people outside the church who claim no religious preference and/or consider the church irrelevant; Create indigenous, contextual resources globally.

The application will ask you to describe how your proposed project supports Discipleship Ministries ' mission and strategic priorities.