Southwest Baptist University (SBU), Missouri Baptist University (MBU), and Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) and Spurgeon College at Midwestern are cooperating with the Missouri Baptist Historical Commission to offer one $2,000 scholarship to one student at each school.
Each $2,000 scholarship will be established through a $1,000 donation from the MBC Historical Commission and a $1,000 match from the school.
Applicants must do research and write a paper on some aspect of Missouri Baptist history. The guidelines and application for the scholarship are available in the links below. All papers must be submitted by no later than April 22 for the fall semester of that same year.
To submit your paper, attach it to an email (in .DOCX format) to Janis Newbold (jnewbold@mobaptist.org).
Research Writing Guide & Scholarship Form (.pdf)
For further information on these events, please email jnewbold@mobaptist.org or call 800-736-6227 ext. 301.
Past Winners:
2025
- Amelia Bordean (HLGU) – Margin to Margin: The Missouri Baptist Conference of the Deaf and Its Vital Role in Missouri Baptist History (.pdf)
- Bethany C. – The Missional History and Legacy of Old Bethel (.pdf)
- Kadence Simino (MBU) – Coming Together for the Gospel: The Birth of the Missouri Baptist Convention (.pdf)
- Henry Walker (SBU) – Sunday School and Missouri Baptists: The Story of Sunday Schools in Missouri Baptist Churches and the Men and Women Who Started Them (.pdf)
2024
- Emily Black (SBU) – The Beginnings of Missouri Baptists (.pdf)
- Eli Norman (Spurgeon College) – Civil War Era Tensions for Baptists in St. Louis (.pdf)
- Elizabeth Tucker (HLGU) – John B. Meachum and John M. Peck: How Two Missouri Baptists Established a Heritage of Racial Unity in Antebellum Missouri (.pdf)
- James White (MBU) – Frontier Faith (.pdf)
2023
- Caleb Brittain (SBU) – The Early Development of Baptist Educational Institutions in Missouri: 1849-1906 (.pdf)
- Gabe Gard (HLGU) – The History of HLGU (.pdf)
- Ezra Richardson (Spurgeon College) – The Beginnings of Missouri Baptist History (.pdf)
- Morgan Smith (MBU) – How God Brought the Gospel to Missouri: A History of Baptist Missions to Native Americans in Missouri (.pdf)
2022
- Hannah Roy (SBU) – The Importance of Sunday School for Missouri Baptists in the Antebellum Era (.pdf)