IMpact Pop Willey Scholarship Fund

The Pop Willey Scholarship Fund exists to help Free Will Baptists overseas who wish to further their theological and leadership training (online or in person) from evangelical institutions of higher learning in the United States. Recipients for the scholarships are selected according to how strategic their studies are for the overall work of FWBs in their country and according to the availability of funds.

Since 2022, the Pop Willey Scholarship fund has enabled seventeen Free Will Baptist Students from Panama, Pakistan, Cuba, France, Japan, and Argentina to pursue degrees that have enabled them to train others in their countries. Currently, one of them is the director of the Seminary in Cuba and another one directs the FWB Seminary in Argentina. A third one is the academic dean of the Seminary in Argentina.

The Willeys were pioneer missionaries to Cuba from the early 1940s. Eighty years ago Pop Willey started the first FWB Bible School outside the United States to train leaders for the work in that country. The scholarship fund is aptly named in his honor for pioneering the training of leaders.