Missions Scholarship Information

Funding

  1. The annual budget allotment for the District NMI Scholarship will be set each year by the District Council. The Council may award this money as it sees fit to any of the qualified applicants. A portion of the money may be aawarded to the Jim Johnson Memorial Scholarship at the Nazarene Theological Seminary or to the International Scholarship Fund.
  2. All scholarship budgeted monies will be expended annually.

Eligibility

(in order of priority)
  1. An Eastern Michigan District missionary who desires additional education, whether the missionary is on the field or on furlough. This scholarship is not restricted to area or education nor school attended by the missionary.
  2. A child of an Eastern Michigan District missionary who requires tuition for regular college classes.
  3. Any Eastern Michigan District student called to full-time missionary service and registered with the Department of World Missions in Kansas City.
  4. Jim Johnson Memorial Scholarship Endowment at NTS.
  5. The International Scholarship Fund (to help international students attend overseas Nazarene institutions.)

Limitations

  1. The scholarship may be awarded to the same individual for a maximum of two years, unless there are no other qualified applicants.
  2. The NMI Council will determine the amount of each award, based on the available budget and the number of applicants.

Scholarship Selection Process

  1. Scholarship application forms will be made available upon request from the District NMI Secretary. Scholarship application form will also be made available annually to all local NMI Presidents and Eastern Michigan District missionaries.
  2. Scholarship applications are to be submitted by the person making the scholarship request to the District NMI Secretary by March 31, for scholarships to be awarded in the forthcoming year.
  3. A Scholarship Review Committee shall be appointed by the District NMI Council and shall be comprised of no less than four (4) members of the District Council. The Committee shall review all applications and make recommendations for scholarship awards at the next Council meeting after March 31.
  4. Announcement of all scholarship awards will be made during the District NMI Convention.