April 10, 2000

Texans take communication awards
___CHICAGO--Texas Baptist journalists took top honors in the annual awards competition of Baptist Communicators Association announced April 1.
___Ongoing coverage in the Baptist Standard of the Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting and its after-effects won the Frank Burkhalter Award for exceptional achievement in news writing, the association's highest honor for news writers. The series of stories was written by Ken Camp and Dan Martin of Texas Baptist Communications and Marv Knox, Mark Wingfield and George Henson of the Baptist Standard staff.
___Family Net, a Southern Baptist Convention broadcast service based in Fort Worth, won two of the association's top awards. Chip Turner, Bernie Hargis, Martin Coleman and David Clark of Family Net won the M.E. Dodd Award for exceptional achievement in electronic media for a video titled "Valor." Turner, Lisa Young and Clark of Family Net also won the Albert McClellan Award for exceptional achievement in print media and design for a printed piece titled "Radio ... Life's Common Thread."
___Family Net, a division of the SBC North American Mission Board, also won four other awards in the competition:
___ Turner, Coleman, Clark and Denise Cook took second place in the video feature production of more than 15 minutes category for a children's production titled "Nana Puddin."
___ Turner, Coleman, Clark and Trish Ragsdale took first place in the category of electronic promotional products for "YouthLink 2000."
___ Turner, Coleman, Clark and Chuck Ries took first place in the audio commercial category with a spot on "Alcohol Abuse Awareness."
___ Turner, Coleman, Clark and Rosser McDonald took first place in the video news reports category for "SBC News."
___In the news and feature writing divisions, Camp, interim director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas communications division, took first place in the category for a single newspaper news story with his report on Texas Baptist Men returning from work in Albanian refugee camps.
___Camp also took second place in the news series category for his coverage of Baptist ministry after last May's deadly tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma.
___Wingfield, managing editor of the Standard, received three other awards as well:
___ First place in the special news sections category for his series titled "20 Years After Houston" that tracked changes in Southern Baptist life since the 1979 SBC annual meeting in Houston.
___ First place in the newspaper feature series category for his articles on the growing number of doctors who are making a connection between faith and health.
___ Second place in the interpretive news reporting category for his year-end report titled "Church Music Ending Century on Similar Note to Its Start."
___Standard Editor Knox was awarded first place in newspaper editorial writing for a piece that decried attempts to remove all Christian children from public schools.
___Knox also received a second-place award in the category for first-person newspaper columns for a Down Home piece titled "Math Comes from Mars; Literature is from Venus."
___Jerilynn Armstrong of the SBC Annuity Board, based in Dallas, won first place in the newsletter design category for Well Being, a periodical for the Annuity Board's health insurance customers.
___Becky Bridges and April Hull of the Annuity Board won second place in the brochures or booklets category for "Annuity Board Enrollment Booklet" and second place in the product or promotional catalog category for "Investment Funds Catalog." They also took second place in the category for design of other publication for their work on "LifePoints."
___Buckner Baptist Benevolences won seven awards:
___ Scott Collins, communications director, took first place in newspaper photography single for a photograph of a Russian orphan held cheek-to-cheek with a Baptist volunteer that was published in the Baptist Standard. Collins also won an honorable mention in the first person column for magazines category for a piece titled "Just a Drop" and second place in the category for scripts, advertising and promotional copy writing for "Shoes for Russian Souls Script."
___ Russell Rankin, former writer for Buckner, won second place in magazine feature articles for "Caring Enough to Help," published in Buckner Today. Rankin also won first place in single article design.
___ Randy Shebeck, former design director for Buckner, won first place for design of a limited audience magazine for Buckner Today and first place in annual report design.
___Also in the design division, Debbie Sheppard, Richard Faling and Ed Wittner of the BGCT won second place in the direct mail advertising category for "Creative Arts Festival."

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