{"id":2475,"date":"2020-02-26T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T08:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2020-05-27T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:23:31","slug":"scholarship-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/scholarship-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a middle schooler and confirmand at Salem Lutheran (Orlando, FL), Maddie Kjosa learned her parents were divorcing. It was a very difficult time in her life. \u201cWhen Pastor Julie told the confirmands, she was taking us to camp at <a href=\"http:\/\/luthersprings.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luther Springs<\/a>, I so wanted to go,\u201d said Maddie. \u201cBut I knew with my parents getting divorced that money was tight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddie shared her concerns with\u00a0\u00a0Pastor Julie, and to her surprise, she learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scholarship-Application-.pdf\">scholarships<\/a> were available. \u201cHow do I take advantage of that,\u201d Maddie asked her pastor.\u00a0 Maddie completed the paperwork, and soon after, found herself at camp for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Maddie fell in love with camp immediately. \u201cI loved the songs and the\u00a0\u00a0 delicious food,\u201d she shared, but camp went deeper than that for Maddie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamp was the first time I felt like I personally connected with my faith,\u201d she shared. Maddie had grown up in the church, but it was because someone else took her. She liked it, she just never thought of her faith independently from her parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents and grandparents weren\u2019t at camp telling me it was important,\u201d but she knew it was important. She could <i>feel<\/i> the importance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the first time I made an independent connection to my faith, and it was during a really tough time in my life. I remember reading my Bible in the cabin and it felt like the Spirit filled me. I knew I didn\u2019t have to fear my parent\u2019s divorce because God was with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddie needed camp that summer. Her pastor connecting her to a scholarship and the generosity of donors like you made camp possible for her. That first week set Maddie on a journey of camp leadership and now community leadership. Maddie continued to attend camp and returned to serve in <a href=\"https:\/\/luthersprings.org\/summer_camps\/leadership-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leadership Lab<\/a> at Luther Springs and as a counselor for two summers. She now works full time in the communications and marketing field, while also helping NovusWay with social media part-time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/novusway.org\/category\/impact-stories\/\">HERE<\/a> to read another impact story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a middle schooler and confirmand at Salem Lutheran (Orlando, FL), Maddie Kjosa learned her parents were divorcing. It was a very difficult time in her life. \u201cWhen Pastor Julie told the confirmands, she was taking us to camp at Luther Springs, I so wanted to go,\u201d said Maddie. \u201cBut I knew with my parents<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/novusway.org\/scholarship-leaders\/\" title=\"ReadScholarship Leaders\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31,22],"tags":[48,47,55,54,49],"featured_image":{"full":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM.jpg",960,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM.jpg",960,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM.jpg",960,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM.jpg",960,640,false],"news-post-feat-image":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM-605x403.jpg",605,403,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM-125x125.jpg",125,125,true]},"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-Nov-15-2-05-26-PM.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}