The Caskey Center provides resources, including a designated number of scholarships, for bivocational and smaller membership church ministers in Southern Baptist churches in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
What Caskey Scholarships Offer
Full tuition scholarships (up to $7,500 annually) for LBC, MBCB, and ALSBOM bivocational and smaller membership church ministers for certificate, undergraduate or master’s study in any NOBTS delivery system in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama (main campus, hybrid, extension, workshop, online).
Scholarship recipients also receive the Logos Silver Bible software package.
Eligibility Requirements
Louisiana
- Serve as paid staff (bivocational or full-time/part-time minister) in a LBC church with 250 or fewer in worship.
Application deadline for the Fall semester is June 15th.
Application deadline for the Spring semester is November 15th.
Interviews
All applicants must be interviewed by a Caskey director in order to proceed in the application process. Caskey Center staff will contact applicants the month prior to the application deadline in order to schedule the interview. Interviews will be scheduled for the month before and the month of the application deadline. Interviews must be done in person, unless otherwise approved by the Caskey Center Director.
Before you can complete the entire application process, admission to New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary or Leavell College must be complete. Once we have received your scholarship application we will wait to receive your acceptance letter before we will schedule your scholarship interview. Please forward your acceptance letter to caskeycenter@nobts.edu when received.
For additional information about the Caskey Center for Church Excellence, contact caskeycenter@nobts.edu or 504.282.4455, Ext. 8227.
