I recently had a chance to speak in St. Louis at Union Memorial UMC, which is the oldest Black UMC in the city (and I think the state). It is always good to get out to the Methodist churches as we are a Methodist school, and this helps the congregations understand more about their schools.

The Methodist church has a Black College Fund which supports 11 HBCUs. This system, paid through apportionments, generates over $9 million from the church worldwide. This is our largest source of funding, even larger than the UNCF.

At Union, the pastor, Kevin Kosh, recently began having presidents of the Methodist HBCUs speak at their anniversary service. Last year the president of Rust College spoke, and I had the pleasure this year. Over 10 PSC alums were in attendance as well, which was great. One alum, a 1951 graduate, sang on the program and was AWESOME. There still is nothing like a good spiritual, especially when it is sung like that.

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