Pursell scholarships are awarded each July during the annual WNAC Convention. Named in memory of longtime WNAC leader, Cleo Pursell, these provide help for international students preparing for ministry within their own region or country. Individual selection is based on recommendations from Free Will Baptist mission leaders (Home Missions and International Missions). Scholarship amounts vary as funding comes solely from designated gifts received throughout the year.
On the WNAC Calendar, February has long been known as Cleo Pursell Foreign Student Scholarship Month. Several recipients of these scholarships are now Free Will Baptist leaders in their homelands, while others serve Christ throughout the world.
Give to the Cleo Pursell Foreign Student Scholarship program.
Cleo Pursell Scholarship Recipients
2023 Recipients – Bible Institute – Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa
2022 Recipients – Word of Life School of Evangelism – Bangledesh
2021 Recipients – Cedars of Lebanon Seminary in Cuba
2020 Recipients – Uruguay Bible Institute
2019 Recipients – Bouna Bible Institute in Coˆte d’Ivoire
2018 Recipients – Chamé Seminary in Panama
2017 Recipients – Students at Cedars of Lebanon Seminary in Cuba
2016 Recipients – Two Indian pastoral students (names withheld for security reasons)
2015 Recipients – Two Indian pastoral students (names withheld for security reasons)