Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust (LSFCT) exists to serve Jesus Christ by providing financial and strategic resources to projects that lead to self-sustaining kingdom-building ministries, where support will leverage the success of the whole body of Christ. Areas of special interest are Faith & Work (Kingdom Business), Family Values, and regional, national, and global Transformation initiatives.
We presently have commitments to various organizations which we have supported and are presently supporting. Unfortunately, our commitments and limitations preclude us from adding any new ministries.
We do pray the Lord will provide for your needs and hope you understand the limits facing us. We know that God is our provision and, as He provides for us we will be able to broaden our scope to add new ministries in the future.
In the meantime, we pray He will bless you and meet your needs.
Efforts to educate and promote the concepts of faith-work integration (business as ministry) and kingdom business (business as mission).
How do we resolve the tension between work and spiritual life? Many of us separate our work and faith into compartments, but that disintegration leaves us unfulfilled. As Ken Eldred describes in his book The Integrated Life, compartmentalization results from erroneous messages from both business and church. In reality, our spiritual lives and work lives share a common goal and can be deeply integrated. We need to adopt a new paradigm of work that views it as a calling and sacred ministry.
Kingdom business is for-profit ventures pursued with a goal of achieving spiritual, economic, and social transformation in underdeveloped nations. Sometimes called business as mission, it is a simultaneous pursuit of several factors, including successful business, work-faith integration, economic development, job creation, and promotion of the local church. A more thorough description of kingdom business principles and practices may be found in Ken Eldred's book God Is at Work, named the top book in the field by the Business as Mission Network.
Kingdom-centric initiatives that seek to achieve regional or community transformation through the unity of the body of Christ, united prayer, repentance, reconciliation, church growth, and evangelism.
Kingdom-centric initiatives that seek to achieve regional or community transformation through the unity of the body of Christ, united prayer, repentance, reconciliation, church growth, and evangelism.
Agencies or programs that are making a significant impact advancing the pro-life cause as well as promoting Christian values. Ministries that provide for the spiritual and physical needs of women, especially single mothers.
Initiatives responding to Jesus' command to "go and make disciples." We are committed to the goal of multiplying disciples. We recognize the power of a movement of ordinary people who are disciple-makers--in family, community, workplace, or the world.
Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust (LSFCT) exists to serve Jesus Christ by providing financial and strategic resources to projects that lead to self-sustaining kingdom-building ministries, where support will leverage the success of the whole body of Christ. Areas of special interest are Faith & Work (Kingdom Business), Family Values, and regional, national, and global Transformation initiatives.
The Eldred family's first charitable foundation was established in 1986 as Praise the Lord Foundation. In 1999, the family decided to look more proactively into ministry opportunities that share the same vision and therefore created the Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust (LSFCT), a public support organization based on the same principles.
The Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust (LSFCT) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt foundation. It has a public board and an office open to the public.
LSFCT takes a proactive approach to grantmaking. This means that we study our areas of interest and ask those organizations appearing to do exceptional work to submit proposals. In other words, we accept grant requests by invitation only.
Grants typically cover a one-year period. Occasionally we do multi-year funding on projects with organizations that have proven their commitment to our mutual goals.
We require a signed agreement and brief written reports every three, six, or twelve months depending on the nature of the project. Progress Reports should identify how the goals and objectives of the project are being achieved. A Final Report should indicate a summary of the project's accomplishments according to the goals and objectives presented in the proposal.
Not as a rule.
We do not fund buildings or facilities projects. The foundation typically does not make grants to international organizations that are not associated with a related U.S. non-profit.
Title | Date | Description |
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Family Talk - God Is at Work II |
Mar 26, 2019 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Dr. James Dobson |
Family Talk - God Is at Work I |
Mar 25, 2019 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Dr. James Dobson |
Washington Times - What I Didn't Learn In Business School |
Oct 6, 2016 |
Ken Eldred article on the real source of |
Marcus & Joni - |
Mar 7, 2016 |
Ken Eldred and Bill Dallas explain why |
CNP - |
Feb 21, 2016 |
Ken and Kary Eldred discuss how generosity |
Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur II |
Dec 23, 2015 |
Ken Eldred's podcast interview about integrating |
Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur I |
Dec 16, 2015 |
Ken Eldred's podcast interview about integrating |
Eternal Leadership |
Dec 30, 2014 |
Ken Eldred's podcast interview on integrating his faith and work |
Christian Union - |
Mar 28, 2014 |
Ken Eldred's plenary speech at |
CBMC - Changing Your Paradigm |
Apr 20, 2013 |
Ken Eldred's third keynote speech at |
CBMC - Spiritual Capital |
Apr 20, 2013 |
Ken Eldred's second keynote speech at |
CBMC - The Integrated Life |
Apr 19, 2013 |
Ken Eldred's first keynote speech at |
Family Talk - Finding Success |
Jul 10, 2012 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Dr. James Dobson |
Family Talk - Finding Success |
Jul 9, 2012 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Dr. James Dobson |
Family Talk - |
Mar 7, 2012 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Dr. James Dobson |
Don't Give Weakly |
Sep 25, 2011 |
Kary Eldred sermon at Mountainview Church, |
Grounded - Time Management |
Mar 8, 2011 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Ryan Dobson |
Family Talk - God Is at Work II |
Oct 19, 2010 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Dr. James Dobson |
Family Talk - God Is at Work I |
Oct 18, 2010 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Dr. James Dobson |
Friday Encounter |
Mar 06, 2009 |
Ken Eldred radio interview with Eben Fowler |
Finding God In What You Do |
May 19, 2009 |
Drew Dyck - The High Calling |
For over 20 years, Ken Eldred served as CEO of Inmac, a public company he founded. In that capacity, he was named Silicon Valley's "Entrepreneur of the Year." Mr. Eldred has assisted in the founding of several other successful companies, including Ariba, one of the first business-to-business Internet companies to go public. He is involved in ventures in the United States, China, Europe, and India, and he advises various Kingdom business ventures and ministries. Mr. Eldred is the author of The Integrated Life: Experience the Powerful Advantage of Integrating Your Faith and Work. He is also the author of God is at Work: Transforming People and Nations Through Business, named the top book by the Business as Mission Network, as well as co-editor of On Kingdom Business, winner of a 2004 Christianity Today Book Award. Mr. Eldred has undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford and was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He has also been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Belhaven University.
Roberta Eldred has served as a Director on the Board of Trustees for Regent University in Virginia. Previously, she worked for the Veterans Health Administration's Psychiatry Office, the Christian Counseling Center in San Mateo, California, and the Caravan House, an organization which helps disturbed adolescents. Prior to that, she served as Director of the Department of Minority Affairs for Educational Testing Systems, producers of the well-known SAT program in Princeton, New Jersey. She began her career as a Junior High Spanish teacher in the Bay Area. Mrs. Eldred has served as group facilitator for programs at both Stanford University's Business School and Santa Clara University's School of Psychology, where she earned a master's degree and nearly completed a PhD. She is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Regent University.