In choosing our scholarship recipients each year, we focus on candidates who fit our four areas of focus. Those areas of focus are combating the diseases of poverty by improving health globally, engaging in ministry with the poor, creating new places for people and renewal of existing local churches, and developing principled Christian leaders for the church and the world. Using these areas of focus allows us to find the students who have the best opportunity and best drive to further the Christian mission in the world and serve the global United Methodist Church and its partners after their studies have concluded.