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April 29, 1998
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Baptist Peacemaker claims 2 church press awards

HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina - Baptist Peacemaker, the quarterly journal
of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, received two awards for
outstanding religious journalism at the annual meeting of the Associated
Church Press held at Kanuga Conference Center here April 19-21.

An Award of Excellence, the highest honor given by the ACP, was presented
in the category of Personal Experience, First-Person Account, for "How
Grace Gut-Punched Me in English Class," by David Emerson Lane, of Waco,
Texas. Lane is a 16-year-old student intern for Seeds magazine.
This marks the second year in a row that Peacemaker has won an Award of
Excellence in the Personal Experience category. The article appeared in the
Winter 1997 issue.

An Honorable Mention in the Theological Reflection (Less that 1,500 words)
category went to "Learning Theology from Our Children" by Mary Meadows.
Meadows is the children's minister at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in
Raleigh, North Carolina. Her article also appeared in the Winter 1997
issue.

ACP awards were presented in 43 different areas of content, design, and
illustration. Winning entries were selected from over 1000 submissions. The
purpose of ACP, which encompasses some 200 religious publications, is to
promote acquaintance and fellowship, foster helpfulness among editors and
publishers of its member publications, and stimulate higher standards of
religious journalism in order to exert a positive and constructive
Christian influence on society.

Founded in 1984, the BPFNA is a network linking Baptists involved in
justice and peace issues throughout North America. Its board of directors
is composed of members affiliated with 12 Baptist conventions and five
racial/ethnic groups in Canada, the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico. The
organization has no official sponsorship of any convention. Its primary
purpose is to encourage greater Baptist involvement-at local, national and
international levels-in justice and peace concerns and to help clarify
understanding of such involvement as essential to Christian discipleship.