Jack and Marion Blanco Endowment

 

While Jack was serving as a pastor in California and Marion as an office secretary, he received several calls to teach religion--which included an invitation from Southern Adventist University. As they considered their opportunities, they felt a certain connection to the university since their son Steve graduated from Southern. The rest is history.

After prayer and providential leading, Jack accepted the call from Southern and served for 18 years before retiring as dean in the School of Religion in 2000. He continued to teach as needed for another ten years, serving as professor emeritus.

Jack and Marion continued to live in Collegedale and did all they could to support the university and Christian education. They said, “We appreciate Southern’s emphasis on spirituality and upholding what Seventh-day Adventists believe.” As part of that appreciation, they established the Jack and Marion Blanco Endowment Fund to provide scholarships for need-based theology students as well as to ensure that their young children receive an Adventist education.

“Our philosophy,” Jack said, “is to bloom where we are planted, and we want our estate to bloom for the Lord at Southern.”