Winner Profiles
al support of our donors that these comprehensive scholarships d how lives are being impacted and God’s callings made a reality.
Glendon Sanders Francis Schaeffer Scholarship Winner MA (Christian and Classical Studies)
Joseph Flynn Billy Graham Scholarship Winner MA (Biblical and Theological Studies)
Gary Golike Leith Anderson Scholarship Winner Doctor of Ministry
As a teen, Glendon was blessed to attend The Salvation Army Boy’s and Girls’ Club where a God-honoring staff guided him in serving others. He was raised in a Christian home but it was through that experience that God was leading him, in some capacity, to serve others. After pastoring several churches as an interim and pursuing other employment, he pondered going back to seminary but with a family it was financially impossible. While researching Logos Bible Software, he discovered the scholarship and flexible online programs at Knox that would allow him to pursue his education around secular or church employment. Describing this answer to prayer he says, “This scholarship will allow me to immediately pursue my education alongside my family as we follow the visions God has cast before us… and give me a greater academic base as I continue to mentor young ministers, deacons, and other church members to a more fruitful walk with Jesus.”
Joey is a youth pastor in New Port Richey, FL. He is the winner of the second Billy Graham Scholarship and says, “this scholarship has made God’s calling abundantly clear”: he’ll be preparing for service as a church planter. Two days before entering to win the scholarship, he shared with his wife God’s leading to study and grow intellectually but admitted that financially he had no way of doing it. He says that winning the scholarship is God’s miraculous providence in his life and shares, “And in light of God’s generosity to me I am even more compelled to follow His example in being radically generous to others for the glory of God alone.”
Gary Golike is a pastor in Nebraska with 33 years’ ministry experience. “The scholarship comes at a perfect time in my life,” writes Gary. “I feel that the opportunity to study at Knox is an intentional gift from God. “As a teenager, I began to wander and attempted to live in both worlds, staying close to life in the church, but also getting involved in worldly behavior... After struggling through a philosophy class that emphasized existentialism and also some relationship issues, I was suddenly struck with the foolishness and purposelessness of my attempts to find my way apart from God’s will.” If Gary’s wanderings sound familiar, it’s because the tension he faced— between church and culture, tradition and modernity—is the same tension addressed in the Knox DMin (Gospel in Church and Culture) degree program. Enter to win the second Leith Anderson Scholarship before May 10! More details can be found at www.knoxseminary.edu. † SPRING 2013 | KNOX NOW
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