BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. — A businesswoman’s contribution of more than $1 million to Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., will allow students of the university’s divinity school to study overseas. “I am proud to share that Ms. Joyce Earnhardt has left a legacy appropriate to her interest in Baptist education … ,” said university President Frank Bonner in announcing the gift at the divinity school’s fall convocation.
The endowment gift will be named for Earnhardt, as well as William Arthur and Cora Honeycutt. The endowed scholarship will fund two distinct programs. The first is a “mission immersion experience,” in which a divinity student travels abroad to live with a host family to study a different culture. The second is called “Bible travel and experience,” which will assist students to travel to Greece, Israel and Turkey as they study the Old and New Testaments.
Gardner-Webb is affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
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