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Dear UMBC Merit Scholars:

On behalf of the Merit Scholarships Unit, we would like welcome you back to campus for Fall 2017!  As a friendly reminder, all merit scholarship recipients are required to maintain a minimum grade point average (GPA) and successfully enroll and complete at least 12+ credits each fall and spring semester (6+ credits for transfer merit scholars).

Please Note:  UMBC’s Last day to Register or Add a Course for Fall 2017 is Wednesday, September 13, 2017.  Scholars are eligible to make changes to their semester enrollment until this date; however, please be advised you must complete at least 12 credits (6 credits- transfers) in order to meet the terms of your scholarship.

At the end of the fall semester, the Merit Scholarship Review Committee will review your academic record, as well as enrollment status to confirm compliance with your scholarship requirements.

If you have any questions regarding your scholarship terms and conditions, please feel free to contact us at: http://www.umbc.edu/financialaid/contact_form.html or by phone at 410-455-3813.

“Just as we are called to personal evangelism, so we are called to personal service. Jesus, we are told, both ‘went about …preaching and bringing the Good News,’ and ‘went about doing good’ (Luke 8:1; Acts 10:38). All Christians should follow his example… Both personal evangelism and personal service are expressions of compassion. Both are forms of witness to Jesus Christ. And both should be sensitive responses to human need. The evangelist seeks to discover the principal point of felt-need-for example, a sense of guilt or shame or fear, moral failure, personal loneliness, a lack of self-worth or significance, domestic unhappiness, a hunger for transcendence, lack of education, social repression, or demon activity. Similarly, a person’s social needs may range from the physical (food, clothing, shelter or health care), through the psychological (anxiety, alienation, emotional unbalance) to the economic (poverty, illiteracy, unemployment).” (J. Stott, ed., Lausanne Occasional Paper 21: Evangelism and Social Responsibility, 1982)

Jesus, in his ministry, met people’s felt-needs (healing, feeding, teaching, etc.) but offered so much more by being our Savior and thereby satisfying our ultimate need. In the OT, the Lord presents himself as the Lord who heals, or the Lord who provides, etc. (cf. names of God such as “Jehovah Jireh,” etc.), but we are called to direct people to the One who embodies all those names of God together-Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

To You alone our praise belongs! Christ exalted over all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6V2_EIEuG8

-JP