Application deadline for Presidential Award
2022-10-31, 2023-10-31 | WI
Presidential Award
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis’ Presidential Awards provide financial aid opportunity for incoming students who graduate from the colleges and universities of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (CUS) or Valparaiso University (VU), and who have who have applied to a program in Ministerial Formation at Concordia Seminary. This includes students enrolling in the Master of Divinity or Master of Arts in Deaconess Studies programs.
Awards are granted for the student’s first year at Concordia Seminary and are nonrenewable. The award is over and above any other financial aid the student will receive; receipt of this award will not affect, or be affected by, the amount of financial aid the student receives from other organizations or programs.

Applicant must be a current CUS or VU student who has applied to a program in Ministerial Formation.
Applicant must be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in the winter or spring of the current academic year.
The applicant will have studied at a CUS or VU school for a minimum of four semesters before graduating.
Applicant must receive his or her bachelor’s degree from a CUS or VU school, but not necessarily in the pre-seminary program.

Once the student applies to the Seminary, he or she will automatically be considered for the awards; all information for award consideration will come from the student’s applicant file. There is no separate application to complete. Students must submit their application to Concordia Seminary before Nov. 1 of the year prior to enrollment.

Application deadline for Regents Awards
2022-10-31, 2023-10-31 | WI
Regent Awards
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis’ Regent Awards consist of eight separate grants available to students who demonstrate great potential, and represent varying amounts of aid, including two grants covering full tuition.
Regent grants will be awarded by the Seminary’s scholarship committee, and will be automatically renewed for one pre-vicarage year and one post-vicarage year. Members of each incoming class in the Master of Divinity and Residential Alternate Route programs may be eligible for the following awards.

The Martin Scharlemann and Robert Kolb Grants
Two grants will be awarded that include full tuition for up to 45 hours per academic year. Recipients also will receive a cash stipend of $4,500, paid monthly throughout the academic year. Recipients of this aid will not be eligible for other Seminary-based financial aid; however, external awards, grants and aid, including support from a home congregation or district, are permitted and will be credited to the student’s account without reducing the grant.

The Timothy and Titus and Barnabas Grants
Two grants will be awarded that include full tuition for up to 45 hours in an academic year. Recipients of this aid will not be eligible for other Seminary-based financial aid; however, external awards, grants and aid, including support from a home congregation or district, are permitted and will be credited to the student’s account without reducing the grant.

The Urban and Rural Grants
Two grants will be awarded to candidates who competed for, but were not awarded, the previously described Regent grants. Recipients will receive an additional 25 percent discount on the published tuition rate for up to seven credit hours per academic term of the regular academic year.

The Sword of the Spirit Grants
Two grants will be awarded to candidates who competed for, but were not awarded, the previously described Regent grants. Recipients will receive $1,000 per academic year.

The International Order of King’s Daughters and Sons application deadline
2023-03-01, 2024-03-01 | WI

The Donald F. Hinchey Scholarship application deadline
2023-03-15, 2024-03-15, 2025-03-15 | WI

Church Mutual Cares Scholarship application deadline
2023-04-03 | WI

The Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of North Minneapolis Scholarship application deadline
2023-04-30, 2024-04-01, 2025-04-01 | WI

Ludwig and Lizette Fincke Endowment Fund application deadline
2023-09-15, 2024-09-15 | WI

Wyoming District LWML Scholarship application deadline
2024-03-31, 2025-03-31 | WI

W.B. Small Trust application deadline
2024-06-01 | WI

Prevallet Hymn Writing Workshop
2025-02-08 08:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
The Prevallet Hymn Writing Workshop is an opportunity for students of Concordia Seminary, as well as other hymn writers and translators, to gather together and learn from an expert in the field about the mechanics and craft of writing hymn texts.
This workshop is offered especially to students of Concordia Seminary to equip them to participate in the annual Pamela Ann Prevallet Hymn Competition. Although the competition is open to current first, second and vicarage M.Div. students, as well as residential Deaconess Studies students, all Concordia Seminary students may participate in this hymn writing workshop to learn or to sharpen their skills in hymn writing.
This year’s keynote presenter will be Dr. David Rogner, Distinguished Professor of English at Concordia University Chicago, where he has served since 1986. Rogner’s areas of expertise include British Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 19th and 20th century poetry, hymnody and the intersection of Christian art and poetry. Rogner’s hymn texts and poetry have been published by Concordia Publishing House and MorningStar Music, and two of his hymns are included in Lutheran Service Book.
A copy of “The Anatomy of Hymnody” by Austin C. Lovelace will be provided to each participant at registration.
Presentations will take place in CH-012, located in the lower level of the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus. The presentations will also be made available live by Zoom to all vicars and other off-campus students. Free copies of “The Anatomy of Hymnody” will be sent to vicars by email request to Dr. Jon Vieker, Dean of Chapel.

Register

Registration deadline: Feb. 5, 2025

Schedule

TIME
EVENT

8:30-9 a.m.
Registration, coffee and donuts, meet-and-greet with the presenters

9-10:15 a.m.
PresentationScripture, Meter, Timbre: Building Blocks of Hymnody

10:15-10:30 a.m.
Break

10:30 a.m.-noon
PresentationForm, Image, Heart: Hymn as Shared Faith Experience

Noon-1 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1-3 p.m.
Optional individual coaching.Participants may bring texts they have been working on to share with Rogner and other hymn writers and coaches who will be available.

*The Pamela Anne Prevallet Memorial Fund Hymn Competition was created in June 2000 by Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Prevallet in remembrance of their daughter. Though Pamela Anne’s limited abilities prevented her from participating in many things other children could enjoy, it was clear in her short life that music was dear to her, in particular the sound of hymns practiced at home by her mother, a church organist. It is thus fitting that she be remembered in this way. It is also a way of supporting seminary students and encouraging church music and liturgical musical excellence. For many years Mr. Prevallet was chairman of the Seminary’s Board of Regents. His widow, Martha, has served as a church organist for 40 years, and resides in Blytheville, Arkansas.
Eligible applicants to the Prevallet Hymn Competition may apply through the Financial Aid Office. This year’s deadline for applying is Aug. 1, 2025.

Dora Maclellan Brown Ministry Scholarship application deadline
2025-02-17 | WI

Mary E. Bivins Foundation Religious Scholarship application deadline
2025-02-28 | WI

Juliette M. Atherton Scholarship application deadline
2025-02-28 | WI

Ella B. Pelz Pastoral Endowment Fund Scholarship application deadline
2025-03-01 | WI

Indiana District LWML Scholarship application deadline
2025-03-11 | WI

Trinity Lutheran Foundation Scholarship application deadline
2025-03-15 | WI

Milt and Sally Knabusch Ministerial & Parochial School Teacher Endowed Scholarship Fund application deadline
2025-03-20 | WI

Island Lutheran Church Endowment Fund application deadline
2025-03-31 | WI

Myron J. Walker Scholarship application deadline
2025-03-31 | WI

Beta Sigma Psi Alumni Seminarian Scholarship application deadline
2025-04-01 | WI

Marguerite Young Endowment Fund Scholarship application deadline
2025-04-01 | WI
