During the past year the Alabama Baptist State Convention’s Board of Aid for Students in Church-related Vocations awarded $249,000 to deserving students, according to board member Jerome King, pastor of First Baptist Church, Shawmut.
The Board of Aid, which is composed of 16 board members from across the state, ministers in the name of the Alabama Baptist State Convention to students in each of the Baptist institutions of Christian higher education who are preparing for church-related vocations. The goal of the board is to award scholarship aid to deserving students amounting to at least 12.5 percent of their tuition.
To qualify for aid, the student is interviewed each semester. A letter of recommendation from the student’s home church is required, as well as a form completed by the student in which there is a personal statement of call to a church-related vocation. The student must be an Alabama resident and be actively involved in the life of any Alabama Baptist Church.
King said that although the board members’ role is to encourage the students, it is usually the board members who are encouraged after interviewing the students.
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