wfn.org | Former moderator receives national honor

["Wilma Shuffitt"<wshuffit@oc.disciples.org>]

Date: February 22, 1999
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Email: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
on the Web: http://www.disciples.org

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	INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- A former vice moderator of the 
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has been recognized 
for children's advocacy by the National Child Labor 
Committee.

	Saundra Bryant, Los Angeles, received the 1999 Lewis Hine 
Award during special ceremonies in New York, Jan. 28. She 
is one of 10 persons from across the U.S. to receive the 
annual award. Saundra was first vice moderator of the 
Disciples General Assembly from 1995-1997.

	Bryant was honored for her service as executive director 
of All Peoples Christian Center. As a child, the Los 
Angeles native spent her playtime at the center. She 
returned to her home city after graduate school to head All 
Peoples; one of four mission centers related to the 
Homeland Ministries division of the Christian Church 
(Disciples of Christ).

	Under Bryant's leadership All Peoples has become a 
full-service organization that provides case management and 
health services, tutorial services, computer training, 
leadership development and other programs to 5,000 L.A. 
residents.

	The center also is the lead agency for L.A. Bridges. The 
after-school and multicultural gang prevention program 
brings together nonprofit organizations, schools, churches, 
police, parents and teachers to serve at-risk children.

	The Lewis Hine awards, established in 1985, are named in 
memory of a sociologist and photographer whose work in the 
1900s led to enactment of the nation's first laws regarding 
child labor.

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