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2022-23 BCA History

Meetings

Officers

  • President: Joshua Minatrea, Texas Baptists
  • President-Elect: Marilyn Stewart, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
  • Past President: Doug Rogers, Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions
  • Program Vice President: Amy Whitfield, Summit Church, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Program Vice President-Elect: Ann Lovell, International Mission Board
  • Membership Vice President: Meredith Flynn, Freelance Writer
  • Professional Development Coordinator: Carol Pipes, Lifeway Christian Resources
  • Treasurer: Judy Bates, JSB Business Services
  • Communications Vice President: Amanda Smith, First Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala.
  • Awards Chairman: Bethany Franklin, Valley View Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
  • Awards Chairman-Elect: Ishmael LaBiosa, Innovative Faith Resources
  • Historian: Cam Tracy, Union University
  • Executive Director: Margaret Colson

Workshop Recaps

Baptist communicators gather for annual workshop

By Scott Barkley

BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC (BP) – Media specialists from throughout the Southern Baptist Convention gathered April 17-20 for the 68th Annual Workshop hosted by Baptist Communicators Association held at Ridgecrest Conference Center.

Breakout sessions covered topics such as crisis communications, building engagement, workplace productivity across platforms and research practices. General sessions addressed areas such as the impact of changing demographics and creating effective team strategies.

Member-led discussions in affinity groups centered around the group’s seven “interest categories”: public relations, marketing, graphic design, electronic media, photography, editorial and management.

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Baptist communicators connect to learn, grow, refine skills

By Art Toalston

Missions photographer Kathleen Sparks, media specialist Dominic Henry and content creator Kedrick Nettleton —communicators from different areas of Southern Baptist life — now have something else in common.

They were first-time attendees at the Baptist Communicators Association annual workshop, April 17–20, at the Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina.

“It truly makes a difference,” said Sparks, senior photographer and photo archivist with the International Mission Board, “to commune with likeminded communicators within the same space — learning, growing and refining skills, while pausing from the fast-paced day-to-day work life.”

It was “refreshing,” she said, to hear from fellow attendees “about how they are communicating to their audiences, and how the Lord is moving in their areas of the country and in their workplaces.”

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Awards

  • Arthur S. Davenport Award for Exceptional Achievement in Public Relations:
    Communications Team of Arkansas Baptist State Convention for "Dixie Jackson Arkansas Missions Offering & Week of Prayer"
  • Diane Reasoner Award for Exceptional Achievement in Interactive Communications:
    Office of University Communications of Union University for "Welcome Week Instagram Post"
  • M.E. Dodd Award for Exceptional Achievement in Audio-Visual Communications:
    Chrystelle Thames of The Baptist Children's Village for "BCV 125th Anniversary - The Beginning"
  • Fon H. Scofield Award for Exceptional Achievement in Publication Photography:
    Max Power of the International Mission Board for "A Togolese woman prays"
  • Frank Burkhalter Award for Exceptional Achievement in News Writing:
    Eric Reed, Ben Jones, Kris Kell, Lisa Misner, Leah Honnen of Illinois Baptist for "Lament, then implement"
  • Leonard Holloway Award for Exceptional Achievement in Feature Writing:
    Kedrick Nettleton of WatersEdge for "Seeing the Kingdom Manifest"
  • Albert McClellan Award for Exceptional Achievement in Print Media and Design:
    Innovative Faith Resources for "BCA 2022 Workshop Booklet"

2023 Professional Awards 2023 Student Awards