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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

November 28, 2000

MOSAIC WINS AWARD; WINTER 2000 ISSUE TO FEATURE GREAT LAKES THEME
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Concordia Historical Institute, the Department
of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, presented
an award Nov. 9 to MOSAIC, the video magazine of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), for a recent segment featuring
Lutheran missionaries in Madagascar.
     The story, "A Century in Madagascar," was included in the MOSAIC
Spring 1999 issue.  The segment was produced by the ELCA Department for
Communication, with the assistance of the ELCA Division for Global
Mission.  The video segment focused on the missionary ministry of the
Quanbeck family.  Members of the family have served people in Madagascar
through several generations, including Katherine and Stanley Quanbeck
who serve there today.
     The award recognized the story "as a significant contribution to
the Lutheran archives and history."
      Timothy Frakes, ELCA Department for Communication, produces and
edits MOSAIC, which is issued four times a year.
     The MOSAIC Winter 2000 issue will include three segments related
to the Great Lakes, emphasizing the importance of the natural resource
and the lakes' relationships to the people who live near them.
     The winter issue will be available Dec. 1. Segments will feature:
     + Walter Sve, an ELCA member and commercial fisherman who has been
fishing in Lake Superior for more than 50 years;
     + Roy Anderson, a veteran sailor and eyewitness to the wreck of
the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, a cargo vessel that sank in Lake Superior
Nov. 10, 1975, during a storm.
     + a visit to the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, and a trip on a
scientific research vessel, the Blue Heron.
     The program will also feature tips on water cleanliness and
conservation.
     MOSAIC is produced and distributed by the ELCA Department for
Communication.  It is intended for educational use in a variety of
congregational settings including Sunday School classes, adult forums,
youth groups, women's and men's groups, new member classes, church
council meetings, committee meetings and other organizational meetings.
     Each issue includes a user's guide, with a synopsis of each
segment and discussion questions.  MOSAIC is issued quarterly.  Annual
subscriptions are available through the ELCA Department for
Communication.
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     Specific information about MOSAIC subscriptions and the contents
of each issue are available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.elca.org/co/mosaic or by contacting the ELCA Department for
Communication by phone at 800/628-3522 ext. 6009.  Digital photographs
that accompany each story can be requested by e-mail to mosaic@elca.org
or by phone.

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