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Louisville Seminary receives $1 million Lilly Endowment grant to study rural ministry in African American contexts

Posted October 15th, 2020

Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has received a five-year, $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish the Nehemiah Project: Strengthening Historic African American Congregations.

Black Church Studies Consultation to address challenges, resources for rural African American communities

Posted February 4th, 2020

Throughout the summer of 2019, researchers from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary began an intensive study of African American rural ministry. Seminary professors and alumni, in partnership with congregational leaders from Bardstown, Hopkinsville, and Eminence, Kentucky, examined the issues that ministers and congregants address to effectively provide spiritual, social and personal guidance to the rural communities they serve.