Covenant News

Seminary Student Joins in Habitat for Humanity Project

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA (June 23, 2002) - North Park Theological Seminary (NPTS) student James Amadon was part of the Habitat for Humanity's Jimmy Carter Work Project 2002 earlier this month, along with 45 others.

Amadon, who recently finished his first year at NPTS, is a member at North Park Covenant Church in Chicago. He left May 28 for South Africa, taking part in a four-day pre-build tour in the Johannesburg area with the National Council of Churches. Part of that tour involved the Jimmy Carter Work Project 2002, which included completing construction of 100 houses in South Africa. Amadon was working in one of the houses Carter and wife Rosalynn supervised. Amadon returned June 9.

The trip was funded by a fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education (FTE). Amadon received a FTE scholarship last summer, along with 40 other seminary students (seven of them traveled to South Africa). FTE is based in Atlanta and offers several fellowship programs and initiatives to encourage diversity and excellence in the churches and seminaries of North America. Part of FTE funding must be used for some ministry project, usually the summer following one's first year of school, to enhance the seminary experience.

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