Overseas Council provides life-changing scholarships for emerging leaders around the world who have the greatest promise and the greatest needs.
Over the last ten years, contributing partners of Overseas Council have provided nearly $500,000 annually for scholarships, enabling approximately 1,000 students each year to be equipped at 100 OC Partner schools around the world. We are excited that one-third of these scholarship recipients were women who are called to ministry roles. Your gifts multiply as students graduate and go on to plant new churches, equip other leaders, and multiply disciples.
Consider
Think about the value of sponsoring a local student who will become a future leader of the Church in the Majority World. In many countries the cost of a year of training is only a small fraction of what similar training would cost in a Western seminary.
Commit
Commit to finance all or part of a student’s study needs for $1,200 per year, or find a few friends who will join with you to fund the scholarship. Sponsorship funds can be paid monthly ($100, or an amount you choose) or yearly ($1,200).
Connect
Receive regular letters from and pray for the student. You may also wish to introduce yourself to them.
A scholarship gift makes a welcome contribution to the needs of the entire seminary and are distributed at the discretion of the seminary for those students who are in most need. Per IRS rules for charitable contributions, your gift supports the scholarship program that is administered and overseen by the Partner seminary. Your gift will be combined with contributions from other donors and will be used to support the education and training being provided to students selected by the seminary. Donations represent an unconditional intent to give, not a legally binding promise or pledge to give.