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March 2002
Baptist Communications Association Newsletter
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Acrobat file of March 2002 newsletter
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this issue:
BATTER UP!
'Spring Training 2002’ set for April 4-6 in
Louisville; Register now; reserve hotel rooms while reduced rates last
Spring Training 2002 is the theme of this year’s BCA
Workshop April 4-6 at the Hyatt-Regency in Louisville, Ky.
The “coaching
staff” at the workshop will include communications clinics by Harvey Thomas,
international public relations consultant and former communications director
for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and Larry Ross, Billy Graham’s
personal public relations consultant. Add to that 1-2 punch the writing
expertise of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Angelo Henderson, special
projects report for the Detroit News, and you have a powerful line-up
that will help you hit home runs with your own work.
Multiple workshops will be offered in
each of BCA’s six affinity groups — news and editorial, graphic design,
management, photography, public relations and electronic media.
Workshop
leaders include Peter Jacobi, retired dean of Indiana University’s School of
Journalism; Patrick Murphey Racey, freelance photographer and former
photographer for Sports Illustrated; Mark Sandlin, travel photographer for
Southern Living magazine; Bill Bangham, director of visual presentations for
the International Mission Board; Paul Huse, director of public relations at
Missouri Baptist College, St. Louis; and Brenda Rick Smith, news and web
specialist, and Troy Fulkerson, Information Services Department director, for
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IMB
president Jerry Rankin and Kentucky Baptist Convention executive director Bill
Mackey also will be making presentations. The
workshop’s opening reception will be Thursday night at the Louisville
Slugger Museum . Tours are scheduled for
Saturday afternoon to Churchill Downs
and Louisville Stoneware. Registration
is $245. Forms are available online at www.baptistcommunicators.org/workshop.htm
or by contacting Keith Beene at 615-904-0152 or bca.office@att.net.
Please note
that registration is separate from hotel reservations. Call the Hyatt-Regency
at (502) 587-3434 and make a room reservation. Be sure to mention you will be
attending the Baptist Communicators Association workshop. Block room rates have
been obtained for $109 per night for single and double occupancy. Reservation
requests received after March 3, will be accepted on a space and rate
availability basis up to the group block. If the group rate is not available
after the deadline, the prevailing room rates will apply for any reservations
confirmed. Back
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TRAVEL INFORMATION
Directions: Go Hyatt-Regency
Parking is $7 per day in an
adjacent parking garage to the hotel. It is state-owned and not operated by the
Hyatt.
Dress attire for the Thursday
night opening reception at the Louisville
Slugger Museum is casual; Friday sessions and dinner is business casual; Saturday
sessions and lunch is business casual; Saturday tours is casual; and Saturday
night awards banquet is dressy.
Website: www.louisville-visitors.com (includes link to Weather
Channel; includes map)
MISSION OPPORTUNITY
This year’s mission
opportunity is to make donations to benefit a Louisville shelter. Shelter units
need items such as microwaves and hygiene products. Money BCA members
contribute during the workshop will help benefit the day shelter. Watch for
details at the workshop. Back
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Thank you
for allowing me to serve as your president this past year. It has been an
honor. Words cannot express the gratitude I have for the officers. They have
worked hard this year.
My thanks
to Keith Beene, BCA administrative coordinator, who is always there with the
information to keep us moving forward. A special thanks to the folks in
Kentucky; they are wonderful. The committees have done an outstanding job in
keeping the organization on track.
Baptist
Communicators Association has been a blessing to me. The strength and knowledge
I have received from its members in tough times in my ministry have been
invaluable. Our networking is one of the strongest things about BCA. We are all
working together for the cause of Christ and our support for one another has
been very impressive. Back
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Some of the
most powerful experiences I've had as a BCA member have begun simply by sitting
down randomly with a member at a break during the annual meeting. These casual
conversations, which might begin with “What’s happening in your office?” can
readily turn into discussions of deeper matters.
I want to encourage you to
build relationships through BCA. When you come up against an issue and need
support, pull up the BCA website to find someone in the directory that works in
the same area you do and e-mail or call them. We all need encouragement, and we
sometimes need to ask the question, “How did you go about doing...?”
My hope for
the future of this organization is that it will become even stronger in its
membership and networking.
If you have
not registered for the annual meeting in Louisville, “Spring Training 2002,”
get online at www.baptistcommunicators.org
and do so.
Excellent conferences will be provided to
help you hone your skills, and the speakers are outstanding. We all need time
away from our desks to “get in shape for sharing our message” and renew our
professional and creative energy — here’s your chance! Back
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations are now being
accepted for the 2002-2003 slate of officers to be elected at the next annual
meeting April 4-6 in Louisville. If you know a member who would be a good
officer for BCA, please forward his or her name to Dick Bodenhamer at
205-991-4086 or rbodenhamber@wmu.org.
Those offices with an
asterisk below are the ones the nominating committee will be filling. The
program-elect needs to be someone in the St. Louis area since that is where BCA
will meet in 2004. The 2004 meeting will be our 50th anniversary celebration.
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2001-2002
President - Diane Reasoner
* President-elect - Tim
Yarbrough
*Treasurer - Ken Camp
* Awards - Terri Lackey
Program VP - Denise Withers
* Program VP-elect - Terry
Barone/Mark Wyatt
* Membership - Scott Vaughan
Historian - Chip Turner
* Newsletter Editor - Stacey
Hamby
* Professional
Develop-ment
Coordinator - Jim Edminson
* Missions - Tanya Dawson Back
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420 CONTEST ENTRIES JUDGED
Wilmer C. Fields Award
Competition entries were judged Feb. 21 at LifeWay Christian Resources in
Nashville. BCA received 420 award entries from 125 members.
Terri
Lackey, BCA awards chairperson, compiled a talented list of 29 judges from Nashville’s
large religious publishing community as well as the local chapter of the Public
Relations Society of America. Communications professors from nearby Middle
Tennessee State University and several public relations freelancers rounded out
the judging slate.
“Several of
the judges remarked on the high quality of the work, and said it was a pleasure
to be included in the judging,” Lackey said. Back
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Grand-prize
winners were chosen in seven categories including public relations,
interactive, audio/visual, photography, feature writing, news writing and
design. First and second prize awards were given in all categories that had at
least three or more entries.
Winners
will be recognized at the awards banquet April 6, at the Hyatt in Louisville.
GRAPEVINE
Doug Rogers
was promoted to coordinator of communication services at the Alabama Baptist
Convention. He previously was a communications associate.
Tanya Dawson
resigned her position as communications specialist for Woman’s Missionary
Union, effective Feb. 22. She now is minister to preschoolers for First Baptist
Church, Madison, Miss. Back
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Bob Terry,
editor of the Alabama Baptist, is engaged to be married March 22 to Patricia
Hart at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala. Dr. Hart is the chair
of the department of human sciences and design at Samford University.
Jennifer Rash
has been appointed as managing editor of the Alabama Baptist. Previously, she
was the news editor; she has been on staff six years.
Chris Breshears
has resigned from the public relations office at Southwest Baptist University,
Bolivar, Mo. While he continues to advise SBU’s student newspaper, he now works
for the Marshfield (Mo.) Mail.
Melissa Mann
resigned as art director for Union University, Jackson, Tenn., and now is with
Business First, a weekly business newspaper in Louisville.
Libby Fields, wife of Wilmer
C. Fields, again is battling leukemia. It has been in remission twice in
the last four years, but recently has resurfaced. Her husband reports she is
keeping an upbeat attitude.
Send Grapevine news items to Keith
Beene at bca.office@att.net. Back
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BCA WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS
BCA welcomes 20 new members
to the organization. Total membership is around 300. For a directory of BCA
members, go to www.baptistcommunicators.org/directory.htm.
New members are:
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Kevin
Adamson is an associate producer with the International Mission Board.
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Brenda
Beamer is the assistant director of public relations for Southwest Baptist
University in Bolivar, Mo.
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Deborah
Brunt serves as the ministries specialist for the Baptist General Convention
of Oklahoma.
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Deanne
Carter is a media production coordinator for the Florida Baptist Convention.
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Cindy
Conner is a public relations associate for Georgia Baptist Children's Homes.
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Randy
Cowling is an editor for the Kansas/ Nebraska Convention.
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James
Driggers is vice president for development with the Baptist Foundation of
Alabama in Montgomery.
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Stephen
Farrar works as a communications specialist for LifeWay Christian Resources.
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Richard
Gibson is an associate producer for the International Mission Board.
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David
LaMar is senior producer for the IMB.
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Miranda
Lindsey is public relations manager for the Texas Baptist Children's Home in
Round Rock. Back
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Becky
Nelson is a newsletter editor for the Woman's Missionary Union.
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Michael
Prather owns Pratherdesign Inc. in Louisville, Ky.
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Lisa
Sergent is director of communication ministries for the Illinois Baptist
State Association.
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Kathy
Sharp works as the director of publishing at the International Mission
Board.
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Sue
Sprenkle is an International Mission Board correspondent based in Africa.
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James
Yates is an IMB photographer based in Panama.
JOB OPENINGS
www.baptistcommunicators.org/placement.htm
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