History

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History

• In 1866, the church established a special fund
  for the advanced education of Sunday school
  children and the educational preparation of
  people for the ministry and missionary service.
• The 1940 General Conference established Methodist
  Student Day with a churchwide offering.
• The 1968 Uniting Conference continued this
  connectional student-aid program, funded by the
  United Methodist Student Day offering.

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Your generous gifts provide scholarships.

• Today, the offering supports United Methodist
  scholarships administered by the General Board of
  Higher Education and Ministry.
• Historically, United Methodists have celebrated
  Student Day with an offering on the last Sunday
  in November, but congregations may choose an
  alternate date.

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Meet Holly McCuiston

• Holly McCuiston is an environmental engineering
  major at Southern Methodist University and a
  United Methodist Student Day scholarship
  recipient.
• She dreams of "combining environmental
  engineering with missionary work. She would like
  to solve water-quality problems in refugee camps
  in developing countries.

Holly McCuistion, left
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Meet Benjamin Carlson

• Benjamin Carlson is a psychology major at State
  University of New York and a United Methodist
  Student Day scholarship recipient.
• Receiving the scholarship, he says, reinforced
  my understanding that The United Methodist Church
  supports its students.

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Meet Christopher James

• Christopher James is an architecture major at
  University of Louisiana and a United Methodist
  Student Day scholarship recipient.
• Through his faith, he hopes to bring honesty to
  business practices. His goal is to build homes,
  schools and churches in impoverished areas of the
  world.

Christopher James (bottom center) with a youth
group
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Meet Irene Hong

• Irene Hong is double major in international
  relations and philosophy, politics and economics
  at the University of Pennsylvania and a United
  Methodist Student Day scholarship recipient.
• Hong plans to use the skills she obtains in
  college to work with a non-governmental
  organization to pursue her passion of helping the
  homeless and modeling Gods awesome power and
  grace.

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How you can help!

• Give online at www.umcgiving.org/give-now.
• Give through your local church. Write a check to
  your local church and identify it as United
  Methodist Student Day. Place it in the offering
  plate or give it to your church treasurer.
• Give by mail GCFA, P.O. Box 340029, Nashville,
  TN 37203

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Learn more!

• Visit our website www.umcgiving.org/umsd
• General Board of Higher Education and Ministry,
  www.gbhem.org