Many BGU graduates have said they want to help current students be successful to graduation, but they don’t have the financial resources to donate to BGU. Most BGU students come through relationships and word of mouth. Every BGU graduate has the ability to make a significant contribution to the BGU family by introducing new potential students to what BGU has to offer.
Each bi-monthly BGU newsletter will provide a few simple ways anyone can make a significant contribution by introducing new potential students to BGU.
Tool #1: Making a list
BGU is arguably the only school at a low-cost price point, with significant discounts in its tuition for students in developing economies, who provides ways for students to build global, life-long relationships on 6 continents. Most online courses have students from eight or more time zones meeting each week and sharing deeply. City immersions provide unique life-transforming experiences of seeing God’s work first-hand in the largest global cities in the world.
Not everyone you know has an insatiable curiosity about God’s global movements. However, for most of us, a few names come to mind who fit this description. These are people seeking a way to experience God’s global movements first-hand in order to expand their awe of God, and to spend a lifetime connecting with God’s global mission.
Would you take about 15 minutes to stop, pray, and make a list of people you know who are this type of advanced leader with a God-given curiosity and call to join God’s global mission? Even if they have not expressed a desire for graduate studies, they are still someone who could benefit from BGU’s certificates and non-degree global experiences.
After you make the list, could you then email that list to Allison Sherwin at admissions@bgu.edu. Include the person’s email or WhatsApp #, and any suggestions you might have about what their interests are, and your permission to use your name as a reference.
You can also ask Allison to have a particular BGU faculty or staff member follow up with your friend. BGU promises to follow up in a timely manner, asking questions and inviting dialogue that can help them grow in their understanding of their own global calling without any “sales” pressure. If you want to be more involved, you can send your own email to your friend, with a cc to Allison or anyone else in the BGU family you think would be helpful in a three-way email, Zoom, or WhatsApp conversation with you and your friend together. It is a high priority for any BGU faculty or staff to follow up quickly.
We would be grateful and honored if you opened up these conversations. God uses relationships to guide us in our calling. We would be delighted to be a tool in your hands to help God do this in the lives of your friends.
Dr. Brad Smith
Chancellor