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Union receives Parsons Foundation grant for Syngman Rhee Global Mission Center

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RICHMOND, Va. – The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation has approved a two-to-one challenge grant of $300,000 to Union Presbyterian Seminary for The Syngman Rhee Global Mission Center for Christian Education. The Parsons Foundation approved the challenge grant to help Union bring in the last half of the funds needed to complete the project. In addition, the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation has approved a $100,000 grant that will help Union meet the Parsons Foundation challenge.

Based on priorities outlined in Union’s strategic plan that focuses on multicultural initiatives, the new Global Mission Center will be a generative resource for educators from other countries who seek support for their Christian education work.
“The center will prepare international students, along with students from the United States, for passionate and effective careers in their home nations or for mission work that will spread the Good News of God’s Grace throughout the world,” said Director of Foundation Relations Evelyn Terry.
The center is one more chapter in Union’s Christian education legacy, which began with the Assembly’s Training School founded in 1914, and which became the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in 1959. Now a part of Union Presbyterian Seminary, the Christian education program will continue to equip students for designing new church education curricula and programs, and building and sustaining energetic and formative youth programming. Students will also be challenged to understand and respond to the learning needs of diverse students with innovative teaching methods.
“And as more students from other countries come to equip themselves as educators for the mission of Christian education back home, the impact of Christian education will grow throughout the world.” said Vice President of Development Richard Wong.

The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation was founded in 1988 by Mrs. Mary Morton Parsons as a private, non-operating foundation to support the capital needs of charitable organizations. Typically, the foundation supports capital projects, mostly on a challenge or matching basis to help organizations leverage additional funding. It has supported capital campaigns for Union Presbyterian Seminary, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Virginia Commonwealth University’s schools of business and engineering and Massey Cancer Center to name a few.

Julia Louise Reynolds established the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation shortly after her husband’s death in 1955. The foundation was created to honor his accomplishments and continue the vision that R.S. and Louise shared for future generations. Since its inception the foundation has provided over $44 million in grants to community and worldwide organizations, supporting a broad range of causes such as education, the arts, health, science, history, the environment and those in need.

by Union Presbyterian Seminary staff

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