Church Leadership

Explore your spiritual journey. Share your Faith, and develop spiritual leadership.

Church Leadership Fellow at a recent event gather together. The Church Leadership Fellows program at Emory & Henry College is a renewable, four-year scholarship for incoming first-year and transfer undergraduate students who are discerning a call to professional ministry, seeking to develop their church leadership skills, and/or interested in the B.A. in Religion program. In addition to receiving financial aid, Church Leadership Fellows will participate in on-going church leadership development training, intentional vocational discernment, service projects and participating, and leadership in Spiritual Life programs and ministries.

Interested in Emory & Henry’s Church Leadership Fellows?

Church Leadership Fellows Scholarship Application

Pastor Recommendation Form

Each year, students that are selected through the interview process are awarded a renewable scholarship and a place as a Church Leadership Fellow. In order to maintain the scholarship, Fellows must do the following:

maintain a 2.5 grade point average
attend the annual Spiritual Life Retreat
actively participate in E&H’s Spiritual Life community (attend Kergyma and one additional Spiritual Life group and one weekly worship experience)
participate in one outreach event per semester
attend the E&H Benefactors Luncheon each year and write a thank you note to the benefactors (and/or their families) thanking them for their scholarship and for making their participation in this program possible.

Questions?

Traci Harrison

Director of Admissions

Graduate, Re-Admits, and Special student applications

Office: Office of Admissions
276-944-6134 Email

Sharon Wright

College Chaplain

Co-Pastor of Emory United Methodist Church & Adjunct Religion Professor
276-944-6836 Email
Sharon Bowers

Director of Church Relations

Office: Inclusion & Dialogue Center, Room #4
Email

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