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Scholarship Sunday highlights the importance of higher education and the resources available to students. Join [Insert Church Name] in supporting scholarships for students through our annual conference and the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
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SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Scholarship Sunday highlights the importance of higher education and resources available to students! • [Insert Church Name Here] • Our Annual Conference/Conference Foundation • GBHEM Office of Loans & Scholarships
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Your generous gifts provide scholarships. Today, the offering supports • Scholarships offered through [Insert Church Name]. • Scholarships administered by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Here’s the Why • Why are we giving gifts to support students? • Helps defray increasing costs • Helps students focus on their studies • Fills in the gap financially • Supports the next generation of Christian leaders. • But here’s the real why …
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Meet Holly McCuiston • Holly McCuiston is an environmental engineering major at Southern Methodist University and a United Methodist scholarship recipient. • She dreams of “combining environmental engineering with missionary work.” She would like to solve water-quality problems in refugee camps in developing countries. Holly McCuistion, left
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Meet Benjamin Carlson • Benjamin Carlson is a psychology major at State University of New York and a United Methodist scholarship recipient. • Receiving the scholarship, he says, “reinforced my understanding that The United Methodist Church supports [its] students.”
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Meet Christopher James • Christopher James is an architecture major at University of Louisiana and a scholarship recipient. • Through his faith, he hopes to bring honesty to business practices. His goal is to build homes, schools and churches in impoverished areas of the world. Christopher James (bottom center) with a youth group
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Meet (put your own student here) • (Student) is major in... • (Student dreams, goals) Student picture
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY How you can help! • Give online at www.gbhem.org/donate4students • Give through your local church. Write a check to your local church and identify it as “Ministry of Scholarships.” • Give by mail: Ministry of Scholarships1 Music Circle N Nashville, TN 37203 • Give to [Insert Church Name]
SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Learn more! General Board of Higher Education and Ministry www.gbhem.org/loansandscholarships To support our Ministry of Scholarships, visit www.gbhem.org/donate4students