Guidelines For Grant Applicants
DEFINITION OF FULL-TIME BAPTIST MINISTRY AND FULL-TIME BAPTIST RELIGIOUS WORK
Applicants for Keesee grants must be active members of a Baptist church. If a grant is approved there is no obligation to repay the funds received. However, it is the hope and desire of the Charles B. Keesee Educational Fund that all students who receive Keesee grants enter the full-time Baptist ministry or full-time Baptist religious work following graduation.
(1) He/she is to be employed and paid by a church or an institution or agency of the Baptist denomination; and,
(2) Full-time employment in the Baptist ministry or Baptist religious work is to include a major component of work specifically identified as religious work requiring formal academic preparation. Such employment could include but is not limited to preaching, pastoral duties, local church music and youth ministry, director of religious education, teaching Bible and religion and missionary work: and,
(3) If you are the spouse of a Baptist minister, not employed in secular work, and are devoting your life to assisting with your spouse’s ministry your work would meet this definition.
