Title: Scholarship fund established for overseas
church leaders
Date: January 9, 2001
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: news@cm.disciples.org
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INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- The Division of Overseas Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has established a scholarship fund to assist overseas church leaders with continuing education. The Dr. Mae Yoho Ward Enabling Scholarship Fund was founded in December 2000 at the request of Ward's son, Don Ward, and her daughter-in-law, Jennifer Eis, of Petoskey, Mich.
The fund honors Mae Yoho Ward's 60 years of service to the church. She served as Director of Religious Education in West Virginia and Ohio and as a missionary to Argentina. Later she held the position of executive secretary of the Department of Latin America and the Caribbean. She also was executive chair of the Division of World Missions and vice president and acting president of the United Christian Missionary Society.
The Dr. Mae Yoho Ward Enabling Scholarship Fund was established to provide overseas church leaders financial aid for continuing education in such areas as pastoral, educational, administrative or service ministries. "Continuing education" for this purpose is defined broadly as formal or informal education, experience or travel that is needed by the recipient to better function within a structure requiring a greater degree of credentialing and in-service training and experience.
One hundred percent of the fund's earnings will be directed to the purpose stated above, with special, but not exclusive consideration for scholarship candidates in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mae Yoho Ward's story and writings about her life and work will be shared with scholarship recipients.
Contributions or requests for further information should be directed to: Resource Development Office, Division of Overseas Ministries, P.O. Box 1986, Indianapolis, IN 46206; phone 317-713-2555; e-mail: gifts@dom.disciples.org.
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