Project description
Sharing the Good News with compatriots is the desire of less wealthy theology students. The Faculté Jean Calvin (FJC) in France is one of only three Reformation theology faculties for the global French-speaking world. A number of students, mostly from African countries, cannot afford to pay for their theology studies. The faculty council wants to help them with a scholarship, provided there is funding. FJC does not receive government funding. Will you help?
Why this project?
This project aims to help poor but capable and motivated students prepare responsibly for their future roles as pastors, missionaries or pastoral workers in French-speaking areas. Therefore, FJC expects supported students to actively contribute to the funding of their studies themselves through side jobs or contributions from their family or church congregation. FJC carefully selects these students, thus keeping the risk of dropping out low.
Impact
Four to five students are able to study theology with our contribution. At the end of the past academic year, four more students graduated. They have been prepared to serve in their place in God's Kingdom.
What can we learn?
A long-term investment such as providing a scholarship does not pay off quickly and visibly. But if we are patient, we can see how the church of Christ can grow in places where we do not expect it.
