From Austin-The Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin has received a $2.5 million gift to fully endow its Center for Christian Ministry and Vocation.
The seminary learned of the gift from the Richmond-based Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation in late March, but disclosed details more recently.
The center offers degrees in chaplaincy, spiritual formation and counseling. It will be renamed the Loise Henderson Wessendorff Center for Christian Ministry and Vocation at a ceremony in September, said Tara Elgin Holley, vice president for institutional advancement at the seminary.
The Henderson-Wessendorff charitable foundation includes the estate of Loise Henderson Wessendorff, who died in 2008. Created in 1972, the foundation is the successor to the Robert W. Henderson Foundation established by her father, Houston businessman Robert Wilson Henderson, in 1956, according to the foundation’s website.
The director of the Center for Christian Ministry and Vocation at Seminary of the Southwest, Dave Scheider, said Henderson Wessendorff’s passions included psychology and spirituality.
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