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[Beth Hawn]

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April 7, 1999
Mennonite Board of Missions
Beth Hawn
(219) 294-7523
<NEWS@MBM.org>

ELKHART, Ind. (MBM) - Two Mennonite Board of Missions Communications
staff received DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Communications Awards of
Excellence for their writing and design work at the annual Religion
Communicators Council meeting March 20 in Washington.

MBM art director Ken Gingerich won an award for excellence in the
category of "Design, Overall Publication" for his design work on the
Winter 1998 edition of Missions NOW, the quarterly magazine of MBM.
The judges were especially impressed by the Healing and Hope insert,
which previewed MBM's mission and goals for 1998.  The piece included
a time line of significant MBM events as well as photos and anecdotes   
from
MBM's work around the world.
     

Gingerich and Tom Price, director of MBM Communications, also shared
an award of excellence for the three-part identity campaign poster series   

produced in 1998.  The series of three posters, distributed to all   
Mennonite
Church congregations, sought to clarify MBM's mission and ministry.  Each   

poster emphasizes one aspect of MBM's mission - witnessing, nurturing and   

healing - as well as a verse of the hymn "I bind my heart this tide," an   
engraving
from Martyrs Mirror and a photograph of an MBM worker.

"We combined these images to make a visual statement that calls each of   
us
to share our faith, despite the risks, in our own time and context,"   
Gingerich
said.  "We can be challenged and encouraged by the Anabaptists who took
great risks to share their faith."

The DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards are given each year to active
members of the Religion Communicators Council.  Entries are eligible to
win either an award of merit or an award of excellence.  Winners of the
excellence award are then eligible for the best of class trophy.  This   
year,
Missions NOW was one of 15 entries in the "Design of Overall Publication"   

category, and the identity campaign posters were one of two entries in   
the
poster category.
Content, creativity, execution and the meeting of objectives are   
important
elements the judges look for when choosing contest winners.

Last year, Gingerich and Price shared a best of class award in the   
"Public
Relations/Advertising" category for a series of ads, which appeared in   
the
Orlando 97 newsletter ¨que pasa? and in Gospel Herald.
   

Gingerich and Price joined MBM's staff in 1995.  Gingerich - a former MBM   
urban
ministry director, magazine publisher and publications director for   
Hesston (Kan.)
College  - lives in Middlebury, Ind., and is a member of First Mennonite   
Church.
 Price, former religion editor for The Elkhart Truth, lives in South   
Bend, Ind., where
 he is a member of Kern Road Mennonite Church.

The Religion Communicators Council is an inter-faith organization that   
includes
people from diverse range of faith backgrounds.  The DeRose-Hinkhouse   
awards
are named in honor of the late Victor DeRose and the late Paul M.   
Hinkhouse,
leading lithographers in New York City.  The men were both devoted   
friends of
RCC and committed to excellence in religious communication.

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Minda Kauffman