First Martha Myers Memorial Scholarship Awarded

A premed student with a heart for missions is the first recipient of the Martha Myers Memorial Scholarship at Samford University in Birmingham.

Jason Skelley, a junior biology major from Jacksonville, Fla., spent January working with doctors in Cameroon in a medical missions effort sponsored by Bread for Life. “In our short time there, we treated over 1,000 people, and over 1,200 gave their lives to Christ through the medical outreach and nightly crusades,” said Skelley, who hopes to return to Cameroon with Bread for Life in January 2007.

The $1,500 Myers scholarship honors the late Baptist medical missionary whose decades of service in Yemen ended violently in late 2002. Dr. Myers, an Alabama native and 1967 Samford graduate, was murdered when a gunman attacked the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen. The scholarship was established to be awarded to premed students who express a calling to medical missions.