wfn.org | Communications agency seeking fourth ethnic fellow

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Nov. 20, 2000  News media contact: Linda Green·(615)742-5470·Nashville,
Tenn.  10-30-71B{518}

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - United Methodist Communications is accepting
applications for the agency's fourth Racial Ethnic Minority Fellowship.

The full-time, salaried, one-year fellowship will be given to a recent
college or seminary graduate for a 12-month period beginning Aug. 1.
Deadline for applications is March 13.

The fellowship offers hands-on experience and mentoring in annual conference
communications, with the aim of building communications leaders of racial
ethnic minority background within the United Methodist Church. The program
was begun in 1998 to address the under representation of racial ethnic
minority communicators in the church's 65 U.S. annual (regional)
conferences.

Applicants must be United Methodist with an educational background in
communications and an interest in exploring annual conference communications
as a possible career. 

The fellowship will provide a salary of $30,000 plus benefits, moving and
travel expenses.

The recipient will be placed in one of the church's U.S. annual conferences
to work alongside an experienced communicator in a variety of media. A
stipend is provided for the annual conference communicator serving as a
mentor to the fellow.

Larry Hygh Jr., was the first fellowship recipient. He served in the New
England Annual Conference and was mentored by Director of Communications
Michael Hickcox. Since then, he has served in the Mississippi Annual
Conference and is currently associate director of communications in the
Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference.

The 1999-2000 fellowship recipient was Eunice Dharmaratnam, who worked with
Lynne DeMichele in the Indiana Area Communications Office. The current
fellowship recipient is Nicole Benson, who is working in the Southwest Texas
Annual Conference under the direction of Doug Cannon. 

For more details, contact the REM Fellowship Committee, c/o Conference
Resourcing Team, United Methodist Communications, P.O. Box 320, Nashville,
TN 37202-0320. Phone: 1-888-CRT-4UMC; e-mail REM@umcom.umc.org; Web site:
http://crt.umc.org/rem.
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