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, the Stegall Foundation was able to provide additional needed funds to our students. Upon hearing of the reduction in Ministerial […]

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. Of these 15 graduates, 12 are either continuing in current appointments or beginning new appointments within the Alabama – West Florida Conference this July. Of the three other students, one will be part […]

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 in which I was reared in Emelle, Alabama. We sang lustily each Sunday those great old […]

Perry Scholarship

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 Sidney Lanier High School, George Washington University, and Sophie Newcomb College. From the inception of our Scholarship Foundation in 2007, Jule […]

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 as a certified lay minister at Myrtle Grove UMC in Pensacola, I […]