As
an ELCA congregation, we firmly believe that education is of utmost importance, whether it be in our Sunday School, our Confirmation program,
our Adult Classes, or through ELCA's 28 colleges, universities, and
seminaries.
Martin Luther, the founder of the Lutheran
church, said:
"If I could leave the preaching office and my other duties, or had to do so, there is no other office I would rather have than that of schoolmaster or teacher ... for I know that next to that of preaching, this is the best, greatest, and most useful office there is ... It surely has to be one of the supreme virtues on earth faithfully to train other people’s children....”
“What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them? The prosperity of a city does not depend on the accumulation of great riches, the building of walls and houses, many guns and armors. Rather, a city’s greatest and best prosperity, salvation, and power is this that it has many fine, learned, sensible, righteous, well-trained Christian citizens.”
Fairbanks Lutheran Church honored a previous
pastor and his wife, Richard and Naomi Kraiger, with a scholarship in their names at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma,
Washington. That scholarship is available -- first to a student from FLC,
to another Lutheran from Fairbanks, or to any student in Alaska. Forms to apply
for that scholarship are available in the Church office.
General
information about PLU is available at: www.plu.edu.
Get
PLU admission forms at: http://www.plu.edu/external/admission/apply/applications.html.
The
Kraiger Scholarship is a part of the "PLUM" program:
www.plu.edu/~faid/apply/downloadable-documents/plums.html
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