Faculty Evangelism Grants

Equipping faculty to integrate faith and evangelism within their disciplines.

Faculty Evangelism Grants provide Wheaton faculty with financial assistance in developing academic projects integrating evangelism with their particular discipline. The purpose of the grants is to enable faculty to explore evangelism as a legitimate outcome of faith integration within their discipline, resulting in new evangelistic insights. The purpose of the grants is also to encourage faculty to model for their students how to share the Gospel winsomely.

Wheaton Evangelism Group reviews grant applications according to the following criteria:

  1. They should include as many full-time teaching faculty as possible. Faculty who are awarded EI funds must have served two years at Wheaton College, including a minimum of one year in a tenure-track position.
  2. Faculty grants will be limited to one every three years. When a strong case can be made for an exception, it will be made on a case-by-case basis.
  3. Wheaton Evangelism Group (WEG) will review and select the grants and recommend the winners to the President for approval.
  4. Project ideas submitted by faculty members will be considered based on their comparative merit. Favor will be given to research projects that develop concepts relating evangelism to their academic discipline for publication or presentation or involve students in using the discipline with evangelistic ends in mind.
  5. EI grant project funds will cover expenses for the faculty member and accompanying students only. If the spouse of a faculty member accompanies him/her on travel while engaged in research, funds must be found from other sources to cover the spouse’s portion of the trip.
  6. The WEG chair is not eligible to draw EI grant funds for evangelism projects during his/her tenure. Nevertheless, WEG committee members are eligible to apply for EI grants.
  7. Faculty members who receive EI grants are required to write a one-page report summarizing their work. If the grant has been used to produce an academic paper or publication, copies of the prepared material should accompany the report. These reports may be shared with the larger College community.
  8. Grant money will be distributed up to the limit of available annual funds.  No grant will exceed $2,200.00.
  9. EI grant funds will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
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We are grateful to the Christ is Our Salvation Foundation for their generous support of this grant program.