PC(USA) communicators, multimedia producers, social media strategist and Unbound contributors are honored for their work in 2024
Associated Church Press announces its Best of the Church Press Award winners
LOUISVILLE — Multimedia producers, a social media strategist and contributors and staff of Unbound and Presbyterian News Service were among those recognized last week among the 2024 Best of the Church Press Award winners, announced Tuesday by the Associated Church Press.
The PC(USA)’s social media strategist, Victoria Shircliffe, won two awards. One, an Award of Excellence, was for “An Ecumenical Walk Through the Stations of the Cross.” The other, an Award of Merit, was for “What is the PC(USA) like? (A guide for Current and Potential Members).”
Alex Simon, Rich Copley and Beth Waltemath won the Award of Excellence for their “Greater Atlanta Presbytery — Georgia: Poverty” entry in the Visual Communications Video-News Story category. Copley and Waltemath were given an Award of Merit in the same category for their “PC(USA) congregation in Minneapolis co-creates a healing space with sex-trafficked neighbors.”
Jim DeWeese won an Award of Merit in the Marketing and Social Media Annual Report category for his “On the Path to Unification.”
Unbound took home seven awards. Awards of Excellence went to a Devotional/Inspirational (Long Format) went to Boundless: An Anti-Colonial Advent Devotional and, in the Biblical Resource category, for Queering the Bible: Queering the Book of Acts. Awards of Merit was given for Biblical Interpretation or Lectionary Reflection (Long Form) category for Queering the Bible: Queering the Book of Acts. Unbound was given an Award of Merit in the Best in Class category for an Independent Website. In the Editorial (Single Editorial or Opinion Piece, All Media), Mae Elise Cannon and Ron Shive won an Award of Merit for "Biden's Unclear Red Line on Rafah, Gazans Perish, U.S. credibility reaches a nadir." jules leslie webb won an Award of Merit for a short-format interview, "Sequential Theology: Lenny Duncan on Witnessing to the Wastebasket of Modernity." webb also won an Award of Merit for a column, "Sequential theology."
The Rev. Emily Enders Odom, who handles communications for Ministry Engagement and Support, among other duties, garnered two awards — an Award of Merit for “The four churchwide Special Offerings of the PC(USA)” and an honorable mention for Best in Class in the Public Relations of Marketing Campaign category for the same entry.
Multimedia producer Randy Hobson won three awards: an Award of Merit in the Best in Class category for Video Production, an Award of Merit for Visual Communications in the Video-Editorial/PR/Marketing category for “PHS partners with Sínodo Presbiteriano Boriquén to preserve records” and an Honorable Mention for Video Production in the Best in Class category.
Communications Strategist Darla Carter was given an Honorable Mention for “Preschoolers at Leesburg Presbyterian Church learn the ABCs of composting.”
The Presbyterian Outlook, an independent publication, garnered five awards. Dartinia Hull won an Award of Merit for “Reviving Goodwill.” Teri McDowell Ott won an Award of Merit for “Bound by love to bear witness.” Gregg Brekke was handed an Award of Merit for “PC(USA) Board of Pensions announces pricing for new benefits structure.” The Outlook won an Award of Excellence for its coverage of the 226th General Assembly (2024). The cover of the January 2024 edition won an Honorable Mention for its design by Anne Walker.
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