History In 1866, the church established a special fund for the advanced education of Sunday school children and the educational preparation of people for the ministry and missionary service. The 1940 General Conference established Methodist Student Day with a churchwide offering. The 1968 Uniting Conference continued this connectional student- aid program, funded by the United Methodist Student Day offering.

Your generous gifts provide scholarships. Today, the offering supports United Methodist scholarships administered by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. Historically, United Methodists have celebrated Student Day with an offering on the last Sunday in November, but congregations may choose an alternate date.

Meet Holly McCuiston Holly McCuiston is an environmental engineering major at Southern Methodist University and a United Methodist Student Day scholarship recipient. She dreams of "combining environmental engineering with missionary work.“ She would like to solve water-quality problems in refugee camps in developing countries. Holly McCuistion, left

Meet Benjamin Carlson Benjamin Carlson is a psychology major at State University of New York and a United Methodist Student Day scholarship recipient. Receiving the scholarship, he says, “reinforced my understanding that The United Methodist Church supports [its] students.”

Meet Christopher James Christopher James is an architecture major at University of Louisiana and a United Methodist Student Day scholarship recipient. Through his faith, he hopes to bring honesty to business practices. His goal is to build homes, schools and churches in impoverished areas of the world. Christopher James (bottom center) with a youth group

Meet Irene Hong Irene Hong is double major in international relations and philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a United Methodist Student Day scholarship recipient. Hong plans to use the skills she obtains in college to work with a non- governmental organization to pursue her passion of helping the homeless and modeling God’s awesome power and grace.

How you can help! Give online at Give through your local church. Write a check to your local church and identify it as “United Methodist Student Day.” Place it in the offering plate or give it to your church treasurer. Give by mail: GCFA, P.O. Box , Nashville, TN 37203

Learn more! Visit our website: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry,