Scholarship Assistance
/Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
From 2007-2008, when 20 refugee children received elementary school scholarships to Word of Life and Christ Community Lutheran School, to 2023-2024, when 13 elementary and 18 high school students were attending four elementary and two Lutheran high schools, the program has served at least 104 refugee students. Almost without exception, these students made satisfactory academic progress and went on to quality post-secondary education or military service.
In this 17th year of the Adopt a Student program, we have made some changes in an attempt to more dynamically accomplish CFNA’s goal of serving as a bridge for immigrants and refugees to Lutheran organizations and congregations. One way we are doing that is through the service involvement of our students and their families. We are asking high school scholarship recipients to get involved with one of the programs at CFNA to help them learn about the services we provide. Elementary student scholarship recipients and their families are being asked to get involved in some significant way with their school.
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In the beginning, most of the students were recruited through CFNA and its facilitators. Now, increasingly, we are learning about potential refugee scholarship recipients through the schools who are serving these students. That has significantly increased the pool of potential recipients, and we are struggling to keep up with these ministry opportunities.
Though the Lutheran Foundation has supported this program from the beginning, and continues to do so, we have had to increase the per scholarship amount in an attempt to help meet rising costs.
One important way in which we hope to not only maintain but to also expand this scholarship ministry, is with the help of the Member-Meneh Foundation. Founded by three refugee siblings who were themselves once CFNA scholarship recipients, the Member Meneh Foundation is conducting a Go-Fund-Me effort to support CFNA scholarships. Funds contributed to this initiative, to a maximum of $10,000, will be matched by Google. Their pilot project last year netted more than $13,000, which was forwarded to CFNA! This year their goal is $20,000, which they deem to be entirely doable.
For more information, please see the attached flyers and follow this link! Might the support of the CFNA scholarship assistance ministry through this Go-Fund-Me effort be a possibility for you? Thank you for giving this your consideration.
By Judith Meyer
CFNA Scholarship Assistance Coordinator
