The Missouri Baptist Foundation (MBF) encourages students that desire a Christian higher education to pursue their dreams. The MBF helps students with the cost of their education by offering 16 different scholarships at a grand total of $29,000 this year. Below are a list of scholarship applications available for submission through April 15thfor the benefit of the 2020 Fall semester. Please note that in addition to the students’ application and supporting documents, there is a new document needing completed by their church pastor. The form for the pastors to use is available here: Pastor Referral Form. Each student applicant will need a pastor referral form completed, and submitted separately by their pastor, in order to fully qualify for a scholarship.
Pastor Referral Form
Scholarships Available for 2020
Universities
- Hannibal LaGrange University Scholarships
- Missouri Baptist University Scholarships
- Southwest Baptist University Scholarships
Benevolent Homes
Convention
Memorial Funds
Other
2019 Scholarship Recipients:
Blair Dicus
Missouri Baptist University Scholarship“By nurturing my faith and strengthening my life, I will launch my life for the best that is yet to come. Foster my Christian faith through the integration of faith with learning, living, and service.”
Emma Hurtgen
John & Sharon Yeats MBC Dependent Scholarship“I not only want to attend a university that provides mission opportunities. I also look forward to learning about how Christian businesswomen and entrepreneurs can impact the world while seeking to spread the gospel.”
Jacob Banks
Southwest Baptist University Scholarship“I am currently majoring in Christian Ministry with a concentration in Discipleship in hopes to graduate and become a full-time missionary with a non-profit called GenerationNext in Kenya, Africa. Therefore, the specific education that I am getting here at Southwest Baptist University will, I believe, help me to be well equipped, to not only share the gospel with people I would encounter but, also equip them to go out and share the gospel themselves.”
Kara Peters
Russell Martin Missouri Baptist Children’s Home Scholarship“I know that this education will help me in the future because I know that God will always be with me. I am learning what is true in His word and how to relate that to everyday life in my career. My goal with my career is to be a school psychologist for a public school.”
Kellie Hamilton
The Baptist Home Employee Scholarship“When I moved to Hannibal LaGrange, I realized it was so much more than just a place where I felt comfortable and planned on receiving a diploma. This university has allowed me and propelled me to striving after Christ. I have been surrounded with peers who constantly encourage me to seek Christ.”
Madyson Brown
Hannibal LaGrange University Scholarship“I have been called by God to spread His glory among the nations through long-term mission work among unreached people groups. Higher Christian education will transform my future by shaping me into a person who works diligently for the Lord, listens more closely to Him, and uses every aspect of my life to glorify Him.”
