WPC Scholarships
Robert C. Bos Scholarship Robert Bos was raised in a Christian home, the second son of a family of four boys. The church was an important part of his family life. While in junior high school, he began to give serious consideration to the vocation of ministry. He accepted the call to ministry following his sophomore year as a student at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a church-related school. Following graduation from college in 1952 with a B.A. degree, he attended Western Theological Seminary, also in Holland, and graduated in 1955 with a M.Div. degree. He was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1955 by the Reformed Church in America, the denomination of his roots. He served as assistant pastor at Hope Reformed Church in Chicago, Illinois for a year and a half. In 1957 he was called as associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana, California. In 1960, he became pastor of Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in Monterey Park, California.
In 1968, he was called by the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii to be the organizing pastor of a congregation that later became Westminster Presbyterian Church in a new, planned community called Westlake Village, located in Southern California on the Los Angeles/Ventura county line. While serving that congregation, in 1978 he received a D.Min. degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California. He retired while serving as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in 1994. Upon retirement he continued in ministry as an interim pastor in a church needing such leadership.
In 1993, during Dr. Bos' twenty-fifth year with Westminster and the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the church, the church's members established two perpetual scholarship funds. One was established in honor of Dr. Robert C. Bos as the founding pastor, the other in honor of his wife Carole M. Hoffs Bos. Dr. Bos chose to designate his award as an aid toward seminary education.
Dr. and Mrs. Bos, each in their own way, have made significant impacts on the lives of the members of Westminster during their tenure. The single underlying purpose of the two scholarships funds is to provide awards that will demonstrate and perpetuate their unselfish contributions to the advancement of the ideals and principals of the Christian faith.
More information and an application is here.
Carol Hoffs Bos Scholarship Carole Marie Hoffs Bos was raised in a home where education and learning were held in high esteem. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. M.A. Hoffs, modeled the excitement of learning, always pursuing educational excellence and community service as their main goals in life. Attending Hope College, a small college in Holland, Michigan, Carole's horizons was expanded and challenged. Teaching had always been her dream and teaching adolescents a goal. During her professional years Carole taught in two public schools and one private school and found that facilitating learning, her own as well as her students, brought her fulfillment and creativity.
In 1993 during the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of Westminster Presbyterian Church of WestlakeVillage, California, the church's members established two perpetual scholarship funds. One was established in honor of Dr. Robert C. Bos as the founding pastor, the other in honor of his wife Carole M. Hoffs Bos. Mrs. Bos chose to designate her award as an aid toward teacher education.
Dr. and Mrs. Bos, each in their own way, have made significant impacts on the lives of the members of Westminster during their tenure. The single underlying purpose of the two scholarships funds is to provide awards that will demonstrate and perpetuate their unselfish contributions to the advancement of the ideals and principals of the Christian faith.
More information and an application is here.
Jack Brink Mission Fund Jack R. Brink was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church from May 21, 2005 until his death August 10, 2008. Westminster Presbyterian Church was a named beneficiary of the Brink Family Trust which stipulated that a permanent endowment, the Jack R. Brink and Joyce D. Brink Endowment Fund, be established at the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. Foundation, and that income from this endowment be used to support Westminster Presbyterian Church's mission projects as determined by the Mission Committee or, if such committee ceased to exist, to similar programs determined by the Church Session.
As a beneficiary of the permanent endowment fund, WPC receives quarterly disbursements from the fund. However, WPC exercises no control over the endowment fund itself or the investment strategies related to the fund. In order to administer the distributions from the permanent endowment, WPC has established its own fund, the Jack Brink Mission Fund, hereafter known as the 'Brink Fund', at the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., Foundation (New Covenant Funds). All principal and earnings of this fund are managed for WPC under the direction of the Foundation's trustee however Westminster retains control over the fund balance and investment strategies.
More information and an application is here.
In 1968, he was called by the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii to be the organizing pastor of a congregation that later became Westminster Presbyterian Church in a new, planned community called Westlake Village, located in Southern California on the Los Angeles/Ventura county line. While serving that congregation, in 1978 he received a D.Min. degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California. He retired while serving as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in 1994. Upon retirement he continued in ministry as an interim pastor in a church needing such leadership.
In 1993, during Dr. Bos' twenty-fifth year with Westminster and the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the church, the church's members established two perpetual scholarship funds. One was established in honor of Dr. Robert C. Bos as the founding pastor, the other in honor of his wife Carole M. Hoffs Bos. Dr. Bos chose to designate his award as an aid toward seminary education.
Dr. and Mrs. Bos, each in their own way, have made significant impacts on the lives of the members of Westminster during their tenure. The single underlying purpose of the two scholarships funds is to provide awards that will demonstrate and perpetuate their unselfish contributions to the advancement of the ideals and principals of the Christian faith.
More information and an application is here.
Carol Hoffs Bos Scholarship Carole Marie Hoffs Bos was raised in a home where education and learning were held in high esteem. Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. M.A. Hoffs, modeled the excitement of learning, always pursuing educational excellence and community service as their main goals in life. Attending Hope College, a small college in Holland, Michigan, Carole's horizons was expanded and challenged. Teaching had always been her dream and teaching adolescents a goal. During her professional years Carole taught in two public schools and one private school and found that facilitating learning, her own as well as her students, brought her fulfillment and creativity.
In 1993 during the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of Westminster Presbyterian Church of WestlakeVillage, California, the church's members established two perpetual scholarship funds. One was established in honor of Dr. Robert C. Bos as the founding pastor, the other in honor of his wife Carole M. Hoffs Bos. Mrs. Bos chose to designate her award as an aid toward teacher education.
Dr. and Mrs. Bos, each in their own way, have made significant impacts on the lives of the members of Westminster during their tenure. The single underlying purpose of the two scholarships funds is to provide awards that will demonstrate and perpetuate their unselfish contributions to the advancement of the ideals and principals of the Christian faith.
More information and an application is here.
Jack Brink Mission Fund Jack R. Brink was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church from May 21, 2005 until his death August 10, 2008. Westminster Presbyterian Church was a named beneficiary of the Brink Family Trust which stipulated that a permanent endowment, the Jack R. Brink and Joyce D. Brink Endowment Fund, be established at the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. Foundation, and that income from this endowment be used to support Westminster Presbyterian Church's mission projects as determined by the Mission Committee or, if such committee ceased to exist, to similar programs determined by the Church Session.
As a beneficiary of the permanent endowment fund, WPC receives quarterly disbursements from the fund. However, WPC exercises no control over the endowment fund itself or the investment strategies related to the fund. In order to administer the distributions from the permanent endowment, WPC has established its own fund, the Jack Brink Mission Fund, hereafter known as the 'Brink Fund', at the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., Foundation (New Covenant Funds). All principal and earnings of this fund are managed for WPC under the direction of the Foundation's trustee however Westminster retains control over the fund balance and investment strategies.
More information and an application is here.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church
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