Northwest Intermountain Synod Fund for Leaders Scholarship

The Northwest Intermountain Synod established a scholarship endowment fund through the ELCA Fund for Leaders. Students must be first nominated by the synod. Eligible seminarians are notified early in the about the Synodical FLM scholarship opportunity. The Executive Committee of the Synod Council determine amounts awarded. The Synod’s FLM endowment complies with the national guidelines of the ELCA Fund for Leaders.

ELCA Fund for Leaders

The ELCA Fund for Leaders scholarship program supports students of tremendous promise attending ELCA seminaries. By making seminary more affordable, the ELCA Fund for Leaders enables more future ministers to go to seminary and helps them graduate with less debt, empowering those whom God calls into ministry to go and serve as the church needs and the Holy Spirit leads.

To be eligible, applicants must be planning to enroll at an ELCA seminary as first-year students (juniors) in the fall semester of the academic year, with no more than one semester’s worth of coursework already completed. Applicants must also have begun the ELCA candidacy process with the intent of becoming a rostered minister of either word and sacrament or word and service.