For the third consecutive spring, Southern Seminary and Boyce College gathered to celebrate recipients of the Mary K. Mohler Scholarship. The inaugural 2024 luncheon honored ten students, while this year’s event welcomed 26 scholarship recipients, with 19 attending in person to share a meal with the donors who made their studies possible.
Mary Mohler, whose name the scholarship bears, captured the spirit of the afternoon.
“I am both honored and humbled by this scholarship fund in my name,” Mohler said. “Our donors have truly been generous in providing funds for so many female students to study at Boyce College and Southern Seminary as they follow God’s call on their lives.”
The three founding donors, Joanne Ziegler, Teresa Bachman, and Denise Ramos, each addressed recipients and spent time getting to know them at the luncheon. Ziegler, a Louisville native who first proposed the scholarship during the celebration of Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.’s 30th anniversary as president, said her own education had been made possible entirely by scholarships and that she was glad to pass that generosity along.
Bachman, whose family owns Bachman Auto Group, encouraged the many students she noticed studying business, reminding them that any workplace is a place of witness. Ramos, who built a career across California, St. Louis, and New York before retiring to Louisville, told students that God’s direction rarely follows a predictable path. Equipping the recipients to go and make that path for others is exactly where she wanted to invest.
Mohler said hearing from the donors was as meaningful for students as the scholarship itself.
“It was a wonderful opportunity for the students to hear from our donors how the Lord has blessed them over many decades,” Mohler said. “They eagerly provide scholarships but are also supporting these ladies with their encouragement and their prayers.”
Two students offered testimonies. Hannah Moses, a Boyce College elementary education student, described nearly every semester as clouded by financial uncertainty and said the scholarship gave her confidence to keep finishing her degree. Cambria Goodman, who grew up in South Africa and arrived at Southern in 2023 with funding for exactly one semester, is now within three classes of completing her degree in biblical counseling. Both credited the scholarship with making their continued studies possible.
“It was thrilling today to hear our scholarship recipients describe how their studies with us are equipping them to serve in a host of areas where the Lord is leading them both here and around the world,” Mohler said. “We are blessed and give God all the glory.”