Synod of the Trinity
Study Grants for Undergraduate & Graduate Students
It’s as easy as 1-2-3:
1 – Go to www.SynTrinity.org
and select “Resources,”
“Synod,” “Applications” and
print the Study Grant Form.
2 — Describe your proposed
experience, including how
reflection activities will be
incorporated, as well as costs.
3 — Obtain a signature from
your church’s Clerk of Session
or Presbytery Stated Clerk.
Fax/email/mail the form.
Where Faith Intersects with Education and Discovery
Synod of the Trinity
Grants are funded by the following Synod mission funds and reserves:
Mary L. Clark Ministry Study Grant — provides financial assistance to PA residents who are studying for service in the Presbyterian ministry
Mary Meade Maxwell Vocations Scholarship — gives assistance to residents in the Synod who are preparing for full-time church-related vocations
Rusch-Shepard Memorial Scholarship — assists dependents of minimally salaried PCUSA clergy
Funds are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis each year until all available funding is expended.
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Synod of the Trinity 3040 Market Street
Camp Hill, PA 17011
Ph: 717.737.0421
Fax: 717.737.8211
Email: [email protected]
Synod of the
Trinity
Study Grants for
Undergraduate
and Graduate
Students
Study Grants Overview
Study Grants Overview (cont.) As a seminarian, experiencing
varied social contexts at home and
abroad will help to enrich a
missional perspective and deepen
an understanding of ministry in a
multicultural world. A Study Grant
can help enhance awareness of the
relationship between the world, the
church’s mission, and your own
calling,.
These funds might also be accessed
by a PCUSA college chaplain,
seminarian, or other student
religious/education leader who
wants to put together an
experience for students to engage
the wider world and to think
theologically about what they are
discovering and learning.
What an honor for the Synod to be
a part of the life of a student who is
surprised by God’s call and future
vocational direction!
Imagine experiencing God in new places
The Synod of the Trinity is seeking
to support students (both under-
graduate and graduate) who are
members of the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) to enable them to
participate in “action/reflection”
experiences either in this country
or abroad. It is the hope that
these experiences will combine
service and deep cultural engage-
ment as part of the student’s
journey in discovering God’s call.
The Synod of the Trinity's Undergraduate
and Graduate funding is a response to our
Reformed tradition's commitment to edu-
cation and to its theology of vocation.
Briefly stated, our tradition values
knowledge of self, others and the world
as integral to gaining knowledge of God.
Thus, commitment to education lies at the
core of our affirmations and efforts. More-
over, such integrated knowledge enables
each of us to grasp the calling, the voca-
tion which God invites us to embrace. To
paraphrase Presbyterian minister and
writer Frederick Buechner, we individually
discover God's calling when our heart's
deepest gladness intersects with meeting
a profound need of the world. These Syn-
od of the Trinity study grants are intended
to reflect this theological understanding of
education and discovery.
Imagine…….
As an undergraduate, you have the
opportunity to learn about brothers
and sisters in Christ who may live in a
different cultural and economic reality
than ours. A Study Grant could assist
you as you reflect on and discover,
with the guidance of a leader
(perhaps a college chaplain or a
seminarian), how this experience
informs your faith and life choices.
Synod of the Trinity