We fund university scholarships for Caribbean students, train pastors in lay counseling, and help coworkers support each other.
About the Foundation
Jesus Lifts exists so nobody has to rise alone. We fund university scholarships for Caribbean students, train pastors and church leaders in lay counseling, and help coworkers support one another at work. Started by Mphatso Khoza. Guided by a Board of Directors.
Read Mphatso’s note
Scholarships
The Merle Khoza Memorial Scholarship. Partner schools: Queen’s Royal College and Holy Faith Convent, Couva. A research paper, a live interview, and one scholar named per school every April.
How the scholarship works
Each partner school picks five candidates from Lower 6 results and sends their names to the Foundation.
Each candidate writes a 1,000–1,200-word research paper on a Foundation-approved topic. AI tools are allowed when they’re cited and every prompt is logged. The student still has to own the ideas.
A live, one-on-one interview on the paper: can they explain it, defend it, and take it further?
The top combined score at each school is named a Merle Khoza Memorial Scholar: US$2,500 for year one, US$2,500 for year two.
An award ceremony, plus a practical prep workshop to help every candidate step into university ready.
Meet the scholarsTap a scholar to read their story, and follow award season on LinkedIn.
Follow the FoundationGiovanni studies Biomedical Technology at UWI St. Augustine and plays, composes, and arranges as a national steelpan musician. He says the application and interview built his confidence and sharpened his goal: a career connecting Caribbean hospitals with cutting edge diagnostic technology.
Class of 2026Learn more about Giovanni
Practical skills for pastors and church leaders: listen well, respond wisely, and know when to refer someone to a professional.
GiveGifts help train pastors and church leaders in lay counseling.
Small groups where coworkers talk honestly about the pressure of work and lift each other through it. Want one where you work? It starts with a conversation.
Talk to MphatsoThe people who lead and guide the Foundation.
Read their full biosJesus Lifts started with a simple idea: people need to know where their value really comes from. Once they do, a lot changes: how they carry hard things, how they treat the people around them, what they believe is possible.
The Foundation is that idea with its sleeves rolled up. We fund university scholarships in the Caribbean. We train pastors to counsel the people who already come to them. And we help coworkers support one another at work.
If any of that speaks to you, I’d like to hear from you.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”2 Corinthians 12:9
