BLUEFIELD — Bluefield College will offer undergraduate tuition scholarships for children of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship global missions field personnel, it was announced last week.
The school will offer an eight-semester scholarship for full-time study to field personnel dependents who meet the school's admission standards. Room, board and other costs will be funded through one of the Fellowship's endowments. The Fellowship is working to increase the existing $870,000 endowment to $2.5 million in order to provide for these expenses.
BC formalized its commitment Nov. 14, when Rob Nash, who heads the CBF's global missions, and leaders from the Fellowship, signed a memorandum of understanding with Bluefield officials.
“This partnership is a powerful example of Baptists working together for common good,” said CBF executive coordinator Daniel Vestal.
“These scholarships are a significant benefit to people who serve in difficult and challenging places around the world and who make significant financial sacrifices in order to pursue their calling to the most marginalized and least evangelized of the world,” Nash said.
The agreement with Bluefield brings to nine the number of Baptist schools that will offer scholarships to field personnel dependents. Seven colleges and universities in North Carolina have signed similar agrements last week, as has Mercer University in Macon, Ga., which committed last year.