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by Gail Strange | Presbyterian News Service
the Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon
LOUISVILLE — Applications are now being accepted for the Katie Cannon Scholarship, sponsored by the Women’s Ministry Fund.
The scholarship supports Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) clergywomen and college women of color as well as other women of color with opportunities for leadership and spiritual development, helping women to develop leadership gifts and to be equipped for even greater service in the PC(USA).
The scholarship, named in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, a pioneer and legend in the PC(USA), awards up to $1,500 to qualifying women for expenses for a leadership development event in the United States.
Individuals must complete a scholarship application and provide supporting documentation to be eligible for funding. Applications will be reviewed by a staff team in the Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries (RE&WIM) ministry area. The deadline for applications is June 1. Scholarships will be announced and disbursed by July 31.
Jewel McRae, coordinator for Women’s Leadership Development & Young Women’s Ministries in the RE&WIM at the Presbyterian Mission Agency said, “I am so grateful that at a time when our nation has been so adversely impacted in such a variety of ways by this pandemic that RE&WIM was able to award this scholarship to two deserving women in 2020.”
“This would not have may been possible without the ongoing support of those who donated to this fund.”
The scholarship, the Women’s Ministry Fund (E049991), is a fund of Racial Equity and Women’s Intercultural Ministries.
The 2020 recipients of the Katie Cannon fund were Yun Ja Kwak of Buena Park, California, and Flury G. Wilson of New Zion, South Carolina.
Kwak used her scholarship in pursuit of a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Wilson, a practicing educator, used the award to pay tuition at Union Presbyterian Seminary for a Directed Studies course, Teaching Liberations Theologies and Practices in Congregations.
Gifts in memory of Cannon can be made online or by mail. Those wishing to donate to the scholarship fund should click here. Or send a check payable to “Presbyterian Mission Agency” and write “in memory of Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon – E049991” on the memo line. Please mail your gift to:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
PO Box 643700
Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700
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