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11-February-1999 
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    Religious Communicators' Group Gets $200,000 Lilly Grant 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Lilly Endowment has awarded $200,000 to the Religious 
Communications Congress (RCC) to help underwrite its conference in the year 
2000. 
 
    The once-in-a-decade congress, started in 1970, will be held in Chicago 
March 29-April 1, 2000. The theme is "Faith Stories in a Changing World," 
and the conference will focus on sharing faith stories of five types: 
spoken, electronic, cyberspace, written and artistic. 
 
    "This grant allows our planning team to invite presenters from around 
the world, and increases our ability to include state-of-the-art 
communication technology along with oral and print tradition," said Shirley 
Whipple Struchen, a United Methodist media producer and chair of RCC 2000. 
Ann Gillies, coordinator for media services for the Presbyterian Church 
(U.S.A.) Office of Communication in Louisville, is program chair for the 
congress. 
 
    Presenters lined up so far include John White, Pulitzer Prize-winning 
photojournalist from the "Chicago Sun-Times," and Pradip Thomas, director 
of studies and publications for the World Association for Christian 
Communication in London. 
 
    The opening banquet program will feature a specially-created video, 
"Images of Faith," produced by a consortium of Canadian communicators. The 
three-part montage will highlight the passion and commitment that have 
driven people of faith to communicate their beliefs through art, music and 
the printed and the spoken word. 
 
    RCC 2000 is a forum for religious communicators that is international 
and multi-faith. It is being planned and hosted by North American faith 
groups interested in global communication. 

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