Anna Resurget

Last Friday evening, we spent an evening with current donors to the Anna Borger Scholarship Fund and were able to meet the two scholarship award recipients, Jay Vellacott and T. A. Dinh.

The Anna Borger Memorial Scholarship is granted to international students enrolled at Southeastern Seminary. The school awarded two scholarships this year. Jay is a doctoral student studying Old Testament and coming from Saskatchewan, Canada. T. A. is a masters level student studying biblical counseling coming from Vietnam.

The dinner this year was held in the Hall of Presidents. It seemed especially appropriate to celebrate the evening there in light of the announcement of the retirement of Danny Akin, the longest-serving president in the school’s history, and the announcement from the trustees of the president-elect, Scott Pace. Scott currently serves as the Provost of the seminary.

After dinner was completed, Timberley shared some things from Anna’s journals, some of which we had just discovered a few days before the dinner. Hearing the way that Anna organized her journals and her life made us appreciate her in a new way. Finally, Timberley brought some levity to the evening by reading Anna’s report card she had given her cat, Trilby. Trilby, according to Anna’s assessment, earned an A for tree climbing and galloping but was seriously deficient in other skills, such as “ruler jumping.” Her assessment, given to Trilby’s parents, was that, “Unfortunately, your son is a failure.”

Many offices at the seminary helped us in the preparation for the evening. We are grateful to live and work in such a supportive community. Southeastern is a wonderful place to work and to study.

If you would like to donate to the fund (and be invited to next year’s dinner!), you can do so here. Timberley is so excited about this dinner, she told me she will invite everyone, even they just donate a dollar! Take advantage of her generosity.

We are very grateful to the donors so far. We have raised over 20,000 dollars for the endowed fund thus far. We are excited in how this will aid international students at the seminary and also honor Anna’s memory into the future.

Anna C. Borger Memorial Scholarship Fund – Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary