2026 Life in Christ Grant
Underwrites the reduction that brings a degree within reach of ministers serving in places where the published tuition never could be.
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Give to Life Seminary
Most of our students are already serving. A gift here is what keeps the cost of a degree low enough that a pastor in a village congregation can finish one.
“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.”
Matthew 9:37
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Graduates Worldwide
190+
Countries Represented
157
Theological Degree Pathways
Where generosity goes
Four things a gift actually pays for.
You may designate a gift to any of these, or leave it undesignated and let the seminary apply it where the need is greatest that year.
Curriculum and examinations
Pays the faculty work of authoring degree plans, writing examination banks, and auditing question quality across every pathway.
Access where it is hardest
Supports students in regions where currency, connectivity, or persecution make theological study costly in more than money.
The permanent record
Keeps the credit ledger, the credential archive, and the public verification pages running for graduates decades after conferral.
Ways to give
Every kind of faithfulness has a place.
A single gift
One gift of any size, designated to a fund above or left undesignated for the greatest need.
A recurring gift
A monthly or annual commitment, which is what lets the seminary hold the Grant price steady from one cycle to the next.
A congregation or ministry
Churches and mission agencies often sponsor a specific student, or a place in a given cohort, on behalf of their own leaders.
A legacy gift
A bequest or estate provision, arranged with your own advisers, that supports students long after the gift is made.
How to give
A personal, unhurried process.
Giving here is open to graduates holding a doctoral degree from this seminary. Confirm your credential, choose an amount, and Stripe handles the payment. Every gift is receipted, and none of it reaches us as card details.
Planning a larger gift, a bequest, or a gift of securities? Those are arranged with a person rather than a form — write to the stewardship office at support@life.edu.kg.
Common questions
Questions about giving
Why do I need a Credential ID to give?
Giving on this page is open to graduates holding a doctoral degree from Life Seminary. Asking for the Credential ID keeps it that way without creating an account or a password: it is the identifier already printed on your certificate and shown on its public verification page. If you are not a doctoral graduate and would like to give, write to the stewardship office and we will arrange it with you directly.
Is this a real card payment?
Yes. Payment is completed on Stripe’s own hosted page, so card details never reach the seminary, and Stripe issues your receipt the moment it settles. The gift is then recorded against your credential, on the same reconciled path every other payment here uses.
Does giving affect my credential in any way?
No. The credential is only used to establish that you are a doctoral graduate. A gift changes nothing about it, and declining to give changes nothing either. Your certificate and its verification page are unaffected by whether you ever use this page.
Does giving affect an application or a result?
It does not, and it cannot. Admission is decided by the published eligibility review, and a degree is issued only when the credit ledger satisfies every requirement group of the enrolled plan. Nobody involved in a gift has any role in either decision.
Can I give to a specific student?
You can sponsor a student your church or agency is sending, and many congregations do. We do not pass gifts to an individual the seminary has matched you with, because that would put the seminary between a donor and a student in a way neither of them can audit.
Is my gift tax deductible?
Deductibility depends on where you file and how the seminary is recognised in your jurisdiction. We will tell you plainly what we can and cannot certify for your country before you give, rather than after.
What does the seminary publish about its finances?
Every fee the seminary charges is published in full on the Tuition page: the one-time program assessment fee, and nothing else. Donors receive a written summary of how designated funds were used in the year they gave.
For the next generation of ministers
Someone paid for the teaching you received.
Almost every Christian leader was taught at someone else’s expense. A gift here continues that for a minister who has no other way to be trained.