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'Protestant Hour' radio program chooses Episcopalian leader, moves to Episcopal 
church campus

     Peter M. Wallace, a member of St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, has 
been named president and executive producer of "The Protestant Hour," a 
nationally broadcast radio program featuring speakers from the Episcopal, 
Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian churches.

     Wallace was a senior copywriter and agency producer at Larry Smith & 
Associates Advertising for 10 years, and from 1984 to 1990 he was editorial 
director for Walk Thru the Bible Ministries.

     A native of West Virginia, where his father and grandfather were pastors in 
the United Methodist Church, Wallace has a degree in journalism and advertising 
from Marshall University. He worked three years as a newspaper editor in West 
Virginia before entering Dallas Seminary, where he earned a master's degree in 
theology.

     Wallace has written several books, including What Jesus Is Saying to You 
Today (Nelson) and the forthcoming TruthQuest Devotional Journal (Broadman & 
Holman), and has contributed to many books, study Bibles, magazines, teaching 
curriculums and other resources.

     Wallace heads a ministry known as the longest running ecumenical radio 
program in the nation. "The Protestant Hour" has been broadcast every week for 
nearly 56 years, winning numerous awards in the process, including the George 
Foster Peabody Award for broadcast excellence.

      "Everyone associated with The Protestant Hour is thrilled at the new 
direction the ministry is taking--and each one is bringing new passion to 
fulfilling our mission," Wallace said. "We have a rich and robust heritage on 
which to build. And because of that, the future is looking brighter than ever."

     In April, after five decades of operating from the Protestant Radio-
Television Center on Clifton Road in Atlanta, "The Protestant Hour" relocated to 
the campus of All Saints', Atlanta, with new offices on the top floor of the 
Harry and Allison Pritchett Center at 644 West Peachtree St.

     The radio program is produced cooperatively with The Episcopal Media Center, 
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and 
the United Methodist Church.

     The Protestant Hour board has also entered into a resource-sharing agreement 
with the Episcopal Media Center, whose president and executive director is the 
Rev. Canon Louis C. Schueddig, one of the four denominational producers for The 
Protestant Hour. EMC's staff will share their expertise in marketing, promotion, 
fund-raising and financial management with The Protestant Hour. 

(Photo available at www.episcopalchurch.org/ens)

Means receives honorary degree for prison work

     The Reverend Jacqueline A. (Jackie) Means, director of prison ministries for 
the Episcopal Church, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity degree May 25 
by the Episcopal Divinity School of the Pacific for her work in what she calls 
the "biggest evangelism field in the world"-- prisons.

     She was honored for her work as a prison chaplain, as director of prison 
ministries for the Diocese of Indiana, founder of a home for women prisoners and 
their pre-school children, a clown ministry and a camp for children of inmates.

     Believing in prison prevention programs, she led her small parish in Indiana 
to open the only homeless shelter in the county and developed a tutoring program, 
health and drug screening and a food pantry.

     Since 1999 she has worked in the office of George E. Packard, Bishop 
Suffragan to the Armed Services, Healthcare and Prison Ministries, encouraging 
prison ministries across the nation and chairing six annual conferences.

     "She has led the Christian community to recognize, embrace and live out our 
Baptismal promise to serve Christ in all persons," her degree noted.

     "We give thanks for the example of ministry that has enriched and challenged 
a local congregation, a diocese and the entire Episcopal Church."

     Means, the first woman "regularly" ordained to the priesthood in the 
Episcopal Church, is married to William D. Lyons and has four children, eight 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.