From left are Hildred Dungan, a Lutheran Brotherhood agency executive; the Rev. H. William Bixby, TEY director; Lutheran Brotherhood executive Jan Elsasser, and Natalie Hand, Associate Director of the LTSP Foundation.

(December 2000)--The Theological Education with Youth initiative at LTSP has been awarded a $14,100 grant from Lutheran Brotherhood to fund ministry leadership projects undertaken by Summer Theological Academy scholars in the TEY program.

The grant provides for scholars to work with their pastors and congregational leaders to envision an initiative to benefit the life of their congregation in some way. This congregational initiative takes some shape before each scholar participates in the Summer Academy, develops during Academy participation, and is enacted after the youth return home. Each congregational initiative may receive up to $750 for a project developed and implemented during the year following a scholar's Academy participation.

"The idea is for each scholar to have a chance in a visionary and practical way to exercise leadership back home," says TEY Director H. William Bixby. "It is a way for them to carry on the learnings and impulses for new ministry generated within the Academy experience."

Lutheran Brotherhood will also provide personal leadership support to the congregational initiative team, Bixby says.The grant was provided by Eastern Pennsylvania Agency #140 and Mid-Atlantic Group #145 of LB.