wfn.org | UMC's Vince Isner Named to Direct NCC's FaithfulAmerica.org

["Carol Fouke" <cfouke@ncccusa.org>]

For Immediate Release

Vince Isner is Named First Full-time Director of FaithfulAmerica.org Online
Advocacy Service 

October 1, 2004, NEW YORK CITY -- Effective October 18, Vince Isner of
Fairfax, Virginia, will become the first full-time director of
FaithfulAmerica.org, the online advocacy service sponsored by the National
Council of Churches USA.  

FaithfulAmerica.org began in May and already has more than 120,000 members
who have helped advance several important initiatives dealing with a faith
response to public issues, including genocide in Sudan's Darfur region, the
Abu Graib Prison torture scandal and persistent poverty in the United States.
 The site also includes resources for voters in this election year.

Isner, a veteran of more than 20 years' experience in electronic media
production, design, marketing, print and web communication, has served as
Communications Director of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society
in Washington, DC.   

He has also worked as an independent producer, most recently responsible for
developing two DVD/web-based study projects for Wesley Ministry Network, a
program of Wesley Theological Seminary, also in Washington.

Earlier he served nine years as a writer, director and producer for United
Methodist Communications and the United Methodist Publishing House, both in
Nashville, Tenn.   He also helped manage educational resources for the
national PBS Ready to Learn project, and hosted a weekly children's
television program on Pittsburgh's NBC affiliate, building on a long
relationship with the late Fred Rogers, founder of Mister Rogers
Neighborhood.  

Isner is a graduate of Centenary College, Shreveport, La., and United
Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio.  Until he begins his work in the NCC
Washington office, Vince can be reached at isnerv@verizon.net and by phone at
202-277-7777.  After Oct. 18, his office phone will be 202-544-2350 and email
will be visner@ncccusa.org. 

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