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In above photo: 2015 MLK, Jr. Scholarship recipients are (L-R): Donald Carter Jr., Twanda Elicia Montgomery, Emerci Jones, Greanna Marshall, Monique Wilkins and Japreis Sydni Evans. Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity members are (R-L): Elder Jeter, Rev. Humphrey, Bishop Fulton, Rev. Jones, Elder Covington and Dr. Churn. (Photo by Danny Imes)

Special to The Chronicle
The Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity (MCWSV) has, over the years, awarded over $100,000 in scholarship funds to students pursuing an education beyond high school because it recognizes that Scholarships are among the most desirable ways to finance a college education.
MCWSV is an example of churches pulling their resources together to ensure doing their part in local communities in order to support education.
The MCWSV committee considered a number of applicants. The core of ministers who reviews the applications considered academic achievements and financial need. Last month, six college-bound high school graduates were awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Seed Fund Scholarships of $1,000 each.
The 2015 scholarship recipients are: Monique Wilkins, Donald Carter Jr., Twanda Elicia Montgomery, Japreis Sydni Evans, Emerci Jones and Greanna Marshall.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Seed Fund Scholarship chair, Rev. Dr. Serenus Churn said: “We are extremely proud of these talented young people. Our conference sees in them, bright promise for a day of true freedom, victory, academic and spiritual success. With our monetary gifts go our prayers, that the eternal God will always be their refuge.”
“We are a collaboration of more than 50 churches in Winston-Salem and vicinity. So, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the DREAM is ALIVE, because of our local churches making yearly contributions to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Seed Fund,” said Bishop Todd Fulton, president of the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity.