Pastor Meredith deliberated about her choices during her senior year of college until she received a full-tuition scholarship to seminary through the ELCA Fund for Leaders.
Western Iowa Synod's Fund for the Future, is a debt reduction endowment to assist ELCA rostered ministers serving in Western Iowa with seminary and educational debt.
Gifts to the ELCA Fund for Leaders have made it possible for scholarship receipents such as Rev. Meredith Lovell Keseley to attend seminary. Pastor Meredith Lovell Keseley received a full-tuition scholarship for seminary in 2002.
Boundless - Winter 2020 - The Cloud of Witnesses - Page 8 on PDF
The ELCA Fund for Leaders scholarship program supports students of tremendous promise attending ELCA seminaries. By making seminary more affordable, the ELCA Fund for Leaders enables more future ministers to go to seminary and helps them graduate with less debt, empowering those whom God calls into ministry to go and serve as the church needs and the Holy Spirit leads.