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Jul 10, 2019

Notre Dame Cathedral and our United Methodist Churches

Notre Dame Cathedral Millions of Christians all over the world wept on April 16, 2019 when they observed on television the fire that did extensive damage to the Notre ...

Jul 10, 2019

12 Course of Study Students Supported This Summer

For the second year, the Stegall Foundation is proud to support Course of Study students from the Alabama - West Florida Conference. All 12 students are currently serving appointments in local churches, with one student...

Jul 05, 2019

Bullard Named Director Emeritus

During the Stegall Foundation’s quarterly board of directors meeting on March 21, 2019, Mr. John C. Bullard was named Director Emeritus. Bullard and his late wife, Mary Ellen, were instrumental in the creation of the ...

Jul 05, 2019

Bridging the Gap

The Stegall Foundation works alongside other agencies and groups to serve our seminary students as they prepare to lead our churches. Your donations enable us to bridge the gap when an unexpected need arises. Recently, ...

Jul 05, 2019

Spring 2019 sees record number of seminary graduates

The Stegall Seminary Scholarship Endowment Foundation is pleased to announce that a record number of 15 recipients graduated from seminary in May. Pictured are ...

Mar 29, 2019

A Timeless Gospel

One of the advantages of growing older is that you look back across the years and reminisce about the good old days! In light of this, I often reflect upon the wonderful small country church of approximately 30 members ...

Mar 29, 2019

Perry Scholarship

Jule Wilson Willis Perry Jule Perry spent the vast part of her 100 years upon this earth as a faithful member of Court Street Methodist Church and First United Methodist Church of Montgomery. She was a graduate of ...

Mar 29, 2019

We need each other!

By Patrick McBride In 2016 I decided I wanted to attend seminary and respond to God’s call to be an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, but I had no idea how I would do it. As a husband and father working ...

Mar 28, 2019

Pointing Toward Hope

One of the more unique aspects of the Stegall Seminary Scholarship Foundation is the communication that donors and students share via regular, handwritten correspondence. Students, in a display of their deep ...

Feb 04, 2019

Stegall receives Clay F. Lee Award

(Left to Right): Brenda and Karl Stegall, Janet and Paul Leeland. On the evening of Thursday, January 31, Dr. Karl K. Stegall was honored by Wespath by being named the recipient of the 2019 Clay F. Lee Award. ...

Dec 28, 2018

Prater, Beloved Teacher, Remembers Seminary Students in Her Will

[caption id="attachment_2863" align="alignright" width="251"] Norma Jean Prater[/caption] -Dr. Karl K. Stegall Norma Jean Prater, a beloved first grade teacher at ...

Dec 17, 2018

Your Year-End Gifts Make a Huge Difference!

[caption id="attachment_212" align="alignright" width="300"] Brenda and Karl Stegall[/caption] One of the most familiar verses in all of the Bible is John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He GAVE his only ...

Dec 06, 2018

A Tax-Free Way to Donate

Our generous donors have chosen through the years so many wonderful ways to assist our students through our Seminary Scholarship Foundation. Some have chosen to give outright cash or checks on a weekly, monthly, or ...

Oct 18, 2018

Surrounding a Seminary Student with Love and Support

[caption id="attachment_2840" align="alignright" width="225"] Elizabeth Hinton[/caption] It is a long, long way (617 miles; 9 1/2 hours) from Newbern in rural Hale ...

Sep 25, 2018

A Word from Bishop David Graves

[caption id="attachment_2734" align="alignright" width="300"] Bishop David W. Graves. Photo by Luke Lucas[/caption] “The Stegall Seminary Scholarship Endowment Foundation is one of the vital ministries of the ...