Building the Future of IFCA:
One Month, Many Churches

The Roy & Elvia Sprague Church Planting Grant is on a mission: to advance the cause of Christ by empowering new churches through the cooperative strength of the IFCA network. These grants are available to eligible IFCA churches that are two years or newer, as well as to new projects sponsored by IFCA organizations—whether a local church, a network of churches, a church planting agency, or an IFCA regional body. In 2025 alone, the Sprague Grant helped launch new ministries with $17,000 in funding.
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May 2026: Your Chance to Make an Impact.
This May, the IFCA Church Planting Commission invites every church member to invest in the future of our movement. Imagine the difference if every person attending an IFCA church gave just $1—the Sprague Grant could grow by $20,000–$25,000 annually, fueling even more new church plants. One month to invest. Many churches to build.
Join us in shaping the next chapter of IFCA church planting.

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About the Grant

Purpose: To provide a tangible means for the entire fellowship of IFCA International to participate as co-laborers in starting new IFCA churches
Goal: To generate a base of financial resources to fund grants offered to new IFCA church planting projects
Vision: To exponentially expand Great Commission endeavors by leveraging the cooperative power of our network by encouraging and funding new church plants

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Eligibility and Applying

Who is Eligible?

1. For an exisiting local church plant ministry

Applications for the Grant will be considered for existing local church plant ministries that meet the following qualifications:

The church plant must be no more than two years in existence.
The church plant must be endorsed by IFCA International or an IFCA member organization.
The church plant must be an IFCA member church or demonstrate a commitment to join IFCA at its earliest opportunity.
The church plant leader must be a member of IFCA.
The church plant leader must commit to providing substantive ministry reports to IFCA upon request.

2. For new projects by sponsoring organizations¹

Sponsoring organizations targeting new fields for a church plant ministry are eligible to apply for the Grant by meeting the following qualifications:

Provision of a community profile of the target area (geographic, demographic, etc.)
Explanation of the spiritual need evident in the target area.
Demonstration of the viability potential for a church plant ministry in the target area.

Applying for the Grant as a new field does not disqualify future applications by achurch plant started in that target area.

^{1 Examples of sponsoring organizations would be a local church or network of churches, church planting agencies, IFCA regional bodies, etc.}

Application Process

Grant Application Process

An application form for the Grant must be completed by eligible plant leadership
A ministry plan must be submitted along with the application, which shall include the following elements:
1. A financial plan explaining the use of the funds
2. A ministry profile of the target community
3. A written commitment to provide prayer updates and ministry progress reports
An application shall be made available online (below) or can be received electronically upon request. All applications shall be submitted electronically through the IFCA website or via email.
Applications for the Grant shall be processed within ninety days of receipt.
Applicants must be interviewed by representative(s) from the Grant Committee prior to approval.

Application for the Grant

Due to the amount of recent activity, new applications for the Sprague Grant
are temporarily suspended.

We are excited to announce the approval of our first recipients of the Roy & Elvia Sprague Church Planting Grant.
More information about the recipients will be provided soon.

We are also pleased to announce that the grant is open again for new applications.

If you are applying for the Sprague Grant on behalf of a new church, please be sure that you meet the qualifications for eligibility. In keeping with the ministry purpose of the Church Planting Commission, new planting endeavors located in the United States receive first consideration. If you are applying on behalf of church plant projects outside of the United States, your request will be given consideration after stateside applications have been processed.

Please fill out the application below or download the application form, complete it and email it to office@ifca.org

1. Name and location of the church plant or project

2. Name(s) of the authorized church plant/project leader

3. Does the church plant or project have an endorsing sponsor?

4. Name of endorsing sponsor

5. Is the church plant a member of IFCA Int.?

6. Is the church plant/project leader a member of IFCA Int.?

7. Please provide a general Financial Plan for the use of the Grant Funds?

8. Please provide a general brief demographic description of the community?

9. Are you willing to provide prayer updates and ministry progress reports?

10. Please provide contact information for the primary agent receiving funds for the church plant or project?Contact NameContact Phone #Contact Email

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Roy and Elvia Sprague: A Lifetime of Service

Dr. Roy Sprague and his wife Elvia have served with Northwest Independent Church Extension (NICE) since 1960. For sixty-four years and counting they have been model Christian servants throughout that entire time. The Sprague ministry resume is very impressive. Roy pastored two churches in the 1950s and then served 10 years as staff evangelists for NICE during the 1960s. Then in 1970, he was appointed as the director of NICE and he led that agency for the next 30 years.

In total, Roy has been involved in planting and establishing 104 churches over the last sixty-plus years, and he remains active in ministry even today. In light of this amazing track record of ministry, the Church Planting Commission has decided that this new church planting grant be named in their honor.

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Roy and Elvia Sprague

Church Planting Grant

Building the Future of IFCA: One Month, Many Churches