Scholarships for Urban Ministry

Limited funds are available for those persons who have demonstrated experience and interest in urban ministry, along with some level of financial need.

All candidates must meet the following criteria:

  • Membership in a church in the New York Annual Conference; and
  • Enrollment in a program at a college or university approved by the Scholarship Committee of the United Methodist City Society by September 2009.

Congratulations to our winners for 2010:

Full Time Seminarians

Lori Hartman $3,750
New York Theological School
St Mark’s, Manhattan

Juyeon Lee $3,000
Drew Theological School
United Church of Westville

Hannah Peck $3,750
Yale Divinity School
Christ Church, Manhattan

Part Time Seminarians

Victoria Kittoe up to $2,750
New York Theological School
Ghana Church, Bronx

Lynda Duhaney up to $2,750
New York Theological School
Bushwick Parish, Brooklyn

Paul Fleck up to $2,750
Yale Divinity School
First and Summerfield, New Haven

Our College Scholarship Winners

Natalie Alvarez-Plaud $1,500
Hofstra University
Co-op City, the Bronx

Kohei Timothy Ando-Mizunno $1,500
Elizabethtown College
North Shore United Methodist Church, LIE

Vincent J. Burke $1,500
Penn State University
Metropolitan Community

Karina Feliz $2,500
Nyack College
First Church of Corona

Catherine Jordan $1,500
Drew University
King’s Highway, Brooklyn

Seung Kwon (Joseph) Yang $1,500
Wesleyan University
Korean United Methodist Church in NY