The FORT Education Africa Scholarship Scheme (FEASS) will provide financial support for the training of teachers, medical evangelists, nurses and physicians as implementors of true education in Africa and other remote localities around the globe. 

 

Coupled with the establishment of Christ-centered schools in these localities, is the important component of having well-trained, mission-minded workers as implementors of true education at the schools. This strategy is well articulated in various inspired counsels by EG White. For instance, in the book Child Guidance, she states: “In all our churches there should be schools, and teachers in these schools who are missionaries. … These schools, established in different localities and conducted by God-fearing men or women, as the case demands, should be built on the same principles as were the schools of the prophets” (p. 306.1). To facilitate the implementation of true Adventist education in the schools, Mrs White strongly advocates for the employment of Christian teachers who “shall educate the children in such a way as to lead them to become missionaries. … teachers … who will give a thorough education in the common branches, the Bible being made the foundation and the life of all study” (p. 307 par 2).

 

Such a calibre of educators is not to be expected from the common schools of the world, but from institutions that provide the highest education and “..gives practical training that fits the student to go forth as a self-supporting missionary to the field to which he is called.” Schools in which learners obtain “valuable education for usefulness in missionary fields” and are taught, in their student days, “how to … care for the injured” as well-trained medical evangelists; “one of the grandest objects for which any school can be established.” (5MR, 280 par 1). The establishment of Christ-centered institutions of this order is one of the main objectives of the organization and remains a major component of the strategic plan. 

 

However, in the interim, the FORT Education Africa Scholarship Scheme (FEASS) is intended to bridge the gap between needy populations and well-trained Christian teachers, medical evangelists, nurses and physicians in countries where Christ-centered training institutions of the order described above are yet to be established. Through the scholarship scheme, FORT Education Africa envisions memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with established Christ-centred schools such as Weimar University and Loma Linda University in California to facilitate the training of God-fearing teachers, medical evangelists, Christian physicians and nurses, equipped with special training in the healing of disease and in soul winning and the ability to go forth as well-trained Christian missionaries to remote places in Africa and all corners of the globe.