SCHOLARSHIPS

APCE Scholarships

APCE is pleased to offer several scholarships to attend each year’s Annual Event, and for Certification Courses offered at the AE and the PC(USA) General Assembly. For more information and for Application forms, follow the links below.

One of the goals of the Awards and Scholarship Ministry Team is to help more people attend the annual event, thus no one person may receive an award and a scholarship for the same event. Therefore, applicants will ordinarily receive one scholarship or award a year. Members of the selection committee, and their immediate families are not eligible for a scholarship, nor are workshop leaders who receive discounted registration for the Annual Event. The cost of APCE membership is not included with any scholarship.  Please read ALL criteria and notes carefully for each scholarship and apply ONLY for those scholarships for which you’re fully eligible.

To learn more about Valeria Murphy, for whom the E. Val Murphy Scholarship and the APCE Annual Event Offering are named, read this tribute from her alma mater and watch this video.

2024 APCE’s Annual Event Scholarship Information and Criteria:

  • Criteria: 
    • Attending APCE Annual Event 2024 via online
      • This scholarship is not available to those who have already registered and paid for the AE Online.
    • Preference is given to those who meet one or more of the following:  
      • from small congregations 
      • persons of color
      • first-time attendees
  • Deadline:  January 10, 5 pm Eastern  
  • Amount:  Online/virtual conference registration fee 
  • Notes:  Number of scholarships awarded annually varies

Criteria: Attending the Certification Courses offered at the AE and PC(USA) General Assembly (GA).  Awarded to the first six applications recieved.  Applicants must be currently enrolled in their denomination’s certification process. Applicant must attend the event in person.

Deadline: October 15 5pm Eastern

Amount: Pays for one-half (50%) of early bird conference or event registration fee

Notes: Up to six scholarships awarded annually

 

Criteria: For a current member of APCE. Applicant must attend the event in person.

Consideration given:

  • First to part-time church educators
  • Then to full-time church educators

Deadline: October 15 5pm Eastern

Amount: Early Bird Conference Registration fee

Notes: Up to six scholarships awarded annually.  Ordinarily no more than one scholarship awarded in any region.

 

Criteria: Applicant must attend the event in person. Consideration given to:

  • Persons of color who are working in the field of Christian Education OR are students majoring in Christian Education
  • Christian Educators in the field who are professional or volunteer

Deadline: October 15 5pm Eastern

Amount: Reimbursable for approved expenses up to $1,000 to cover early bird conference registration fee, three nights’ lodging at conference hotel, transportation, and meals not covered by the conference.

 

Notes: Number of scholarships awarded varies.  Application must include the names and email addresses of two people who will submit references.

 

Criteria: Applicant must attend the event in person. Awarded to an international participant from countries outside the USA and Canada who is enrolled in a seminary, college, or university affiliated with one of APCE’s partner denominations, and who is legally residing in the USA or Canada at the time of the Annual Event.  Preference is given to first-time attendees and to persons of color.

Deadline: October 15 5pm Eastern

Amount: Reimbursable for approved expenses up to $1,500 to cover early bird conference registration fee, three nights’ lodging at conference hotel, transportation, and meals not covered by the conference.

 

Notes: The application must include a statement of how Annual Event participation will support work in Christian formation in the home country, and also a letter of recommendation or endorsement from the enrolling institution in the USA or Canada.  One scholarship may be awarded annually.

Criteria: Applicant must attend the event in person. Anyone in each region that is a First-time attendee of Annual Event.  Preference given to persons of color.

Deadline: October 15 5pm Eastern

Amount: Early Bird Conference Registration fee

Notes: Up to fourteen scholarships awarded annually.

 

Christian Reformed Church

Please consider applying for all APCE-sponsored scholarships for which you meet the criteria:  https://apcenet.org/scholarships/

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Visit http://www.pcusa.org/grants  and consider applying for the REWIM grant and scholarship program (scroll down the page to find Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries Grants and Scholarships (under the Mid Councils, Churches, and Organizations heading).  The most likely applicable category for scholarship application with regard to APCE Annual Event participation is “Leadership Development and Recruitment for Leaders of Color.”

Presbyterian Church in Canada

One option is the Bursary fund for lay education, which is very open-ended on what applies for funding:  https://presbyterian.ca/canadian-ministries/funds/bursary-fund-for-lay-education/ 

Another option is the form for continuing education in CE, which has 10 $750 scholarships available within it for APCE specifically:  https://form.jotform.com/210845209376054 

Reformed Church in America

 Please consider applying for all APCE-sponsored scholarships for which you meet the criteria:  https://apcenet.org/scholarships/

Criteria: Applicant must attend the event in person. Awarded to Christian Educators who have been a member of APCE for a minimum of ten years and must be a fully retired Educator.  Preference is given to applicants from the region where the AE will occur.  

Deadline: October 15 5pm Eastern

Amount: Early Bird Conference Registration fee

Notes: One scholarship awarded annually.  Recipients may recieve this scholarship once only.

 

Criteria: Applicant must attend the event in person.  Applicant must attend the event in person.  Must serve a church with 100 or fewer in worship.

Preference is given to first-time AE attendees.

Deadline: October 15 5pm Eastern

Amount: Early Bird Conference Registration fee

 

Notes: Up to ten scholarships awarded annually

 

Criteria:  Applicant must attend the event in person.  For volunteers serving congregations or councils in Christian formation
Deadline:  October 15 at 5 pm Eastern
Amount:  Early bird conference registration fee

Notes:  Number of scholarships awarded annually varies

Regional Scholarship Opportunities

Christian Reformed Church

Please consider applying for all APCE-sponsored scholarships for which you meet the criteria:  https://apcenet.org/scholarships/

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Visit http://www.pcusa.org/grants  and consider applying for the REWIM grant and scholarship program (scroll down the page to find Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries Grants and Scholarships (under the Mid Councils, Churches, and Organizations heading).  The most likely applicable category for scholarship application with regard to APCE Annual Event participation is “Leadership Development and Recruitment for Leaders of Color.”

Presbyterian Church in Canada

One option is the Bursary fund for lay education, which is very open-ended on what applies for funding:  https://presbyterian.ca/canadian-ministries/funds/bursary-fund-for-lay-education/ 

Another option is the form for continuing education in CE, which has 10 $750 scholarships available within it for APCE specifically:  https://form.jotform.com/210845209376054 

Reformed Church in America

 Please consider applying for all APCE-sponsored scholarships for which you meet the criteria:  https://apcenet.org/scholarships/