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Baltimore, November 21, 2002 -- Sabine Schulz Lamar, a student at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, is the winner of a Lutheran World Relief Study Visit Scholarship for seminary students. She will join a LWR study visit to Kenya and Uganda early next year.
The 19-member group will visit communities in urban slums and rural areas. They will learn from people working to prevent HIV./AIDS and providing care for people living with the epidemic. They will also meet innovative and successful local farmers whom LWR supports.
In her application Lamar wrote: "I did not know where the journey was taking me beyond 'doing the right thing' for someone in need - until the day my sister cried in gratitude, for holding her, touching her like a 'normal' person (even) though she had just disclosed her diagnosis of AIDS to me."
"Jesus compels us to do justice because God is just. Jesus brought justice not for the sake of the law, but out of compassion for humankind."
The trip will be Lamar's first trip to Africa. The seminary scholarships, made available by an anonymous LWR donor, provide $2,300 per recipient. Lamar will cover the balance of her travel costs. Her home congregation is Christ the King Lutheran Church in Houston, Texas.
A web diary of the trip will appear on LWR's website, starting January 26, 2003, or shortly thereafter.