Self-Guided "Live Like a Student" Module
All new students are required to complete this activity with 80% proficiency by 11:55 p.m. on Friday, July 6.
It will remember your place if you have to stop before finishing the lesson. You may attempt the lesson up to two times and your highest score will count.
Introduction
Give people a center and they will stand fast.
Manuel Elizarde, Jr.
Students are leaving seminary with an unprecedented amount of debt. At a time when pastor’s salaries are stagnant and many seminarians will be bi-vocational, the need is great for skills and strategies students can employ to avoid taking on crushing debt. Lancaster Theological Seminary has accepted a challenge from Lilly Endowment to create a comprehensive approach to addressing the cause, effect and possible solutions to the debt crisis.
In the short term, our goal is to give students the tools to minimize the amount of student loan debt they incur by teaching money management skills and by providing mentors who will assist students to create and implement a spending plan.
The ultimate goal of this project is to send graduates into the world equipped with the skills to address their own, their congregants’ and church’s financial needs, so that they thrive in ministry and in life.