Anna Resurget

Today we are remembering the day we lost Anna in 2008. On this day, I will often write about some memory of Anna, or something Timberley and Sam and I have learned about the grieving process. But today, I am writing with good news.

In March, I announced the creation of the Anna C. Borger Memorial Scholarship Fund at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Since then, the fund has been approved by the trustees and is now active.

We created the fund to support international students enrolled at SEBTS. We thought this would be a good way to remember Anna, her love for other cultures, and her love for the gospel of Jesus.

This fund will be fully endowed, meaning that gifts you make will help students not only now, but perpetually into the future, until the Lord returns. You can make donations at https://www.sebts.edu/alumni/anna-c-borger-memorial-scholarship-fund/.

In my announcement in March, I described four kinds people that would want to donate to this fund. I am going to copy that part here:

1. People that want to remember Anna. There are a number of occasions during the year when family and friends may want to give a gift as a way to honor Anna’s memory. Her birthday is on March 29. The day of her passing is May 7. You know about Christmas (it falls on December 25 this year). If at any point you wish to honor Anna’s memory, please consider contacting Southeastern Seminary to make a donation for this scholarship fund.
2. People that love international students. International students are a unique group. They have so many obstacles to overcome when moving overseas for their education. They are learning a new culture. Often they are learning a new language. Sometimes they have new weather to deal with. (I’m thinking now of my two Pakistani students who moved to Wake Forest in January. Oh my!) But a big obstacle for them is financial. Not only do they have the normal problems related to work and school, but they also have governmental restrictions on their ability to work while they are in the country. This fund will be a tremendous aid to these students.
3. People that love Southeastern Seminary. I have been teaching at SEBTS for fifteen years now. I love this school. We have a great faculty. We have a great campus. We have a great group of students. We have a great president with a vision for reaching the nations for Christ. If you know our school, then you know that this fund will help the mission of Southeastern to train students to serve the church and the world in the advancement of the kingdom of God.
4. People that love the gospel of Jesus Christ. Coming out of the third point are those people who love the Lord and who love to see students trained to become pastors and missionaries. These international students will very often be returning to their home countries after graduation. Sometimes they are sent elsewhere with the International Mission Board. But however they serve, our international students are very often our students who are most passionate about sharing their faith with the lost world around them. They love the Lord.

Our hope and prayer is that this fund will provide much needed aid to a particular group of students that are in great need, that this fund will honor Anna’s memory as one who loved her Lord and loved others greatly, and finally will honor our Lord by preparing ministers of his gospel for the world.

Anna resurget.