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Crossroads Campaign

Gettysburg Seminary, bearing witness at the Crossroads of History and Hope, has launched a comprehensive capital campaign to strengthen and increase the number of excellent future leaders for the Church.

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We invite you to join the Crossroads Campaign in which Gettysburg Seminary:
  • Leads the way with a robust learning environment preparing the finest outreach-oriented mission leaders for the 21st century church;
  • Teaches with an excellent faculty featuring inspired, creative intellectual energy;
  • Serves the church with a special sense of compassionate servanthood in its formation of spiritual leaders;
  • Grows the student body by one-third in the coming decade to serve a church with a critical shortage of leaders.
In order to lead, teach, serve, and grow we are working to strengthen support for the following priority areas:

Increasing annual gifts to the Gettysburg Seminary Fund
The Gettysburg Seminary Fund is the backbone of the seminary’s commitment to offer an outstanding graduate education and ministerial formation experience at an affordable level for women and men who choose to respond to god’s call through professional level preparation. Tuition and fees cover only about 25% the true cost of seminary education. The remaining costs are met in part through the regular annual support of synods and church-wide funds – another approximately 25%. The remaining 50% of the cost of seminary education is covered through earnings from our endowment and annual gifts from loyal alumni, friends, and congregations. 
 
$6m
Growing the Seminary Endowment
The seminary’s endowment provides for the majority of student scholarships. Individuals, families, and congregations have graciously celebrated the lives, faith, and ministry of pastors, parents, friends, and dedicated laity by establishing endowed scholarships in their names. Special public lectures, building renovation, and endowed faculty positions are also supported by designated endowed funds. 
 
$10m
Developing our historic campus
The current priorities for preservation and facility improvement on our historic campus include the installation of geothermal heating and cooling systems for the chapel and refectory. Gifts to the campus development fund will support system installation as well as renovations to each building.
              
$5m
Sustaining the Luther Institute, an international learning center
The Luther Institute, an affiliate of Gettysburg Seminary, is a pan-Lutheran, non-partisan educational organization, promoting the exercise of faith in the public square through civil discourse, theological reflection, and attentive listening. Gifts to Gettysburg Seminary may be designated for the Luther Institute and will be used to support programs and activities led by the Institute.
 
 $2.5m
Strengthening Theological Education with Youth (TEY)
Theological Education with Youth, a joint initiative of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, seeks to amplify the faith and witness of high school youth through transformational events focused on theological and vocational discovery.
 
$1.5m
Total Crossroads Campaign Goal  $25m

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