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Callam Receives Leadership Award

presented with the Campbellsville University Leadership Award on March 25 at the university’s campus in the state of Kentucky, in the United States.

B Callam was recognized “for his dedicated and extraordinary

career as an educator, theologian and ecumenist, pastor and church administrator.” He was lauded for his “leadership positions with the Jamaica Baptist Union and the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship resulting in his being the first person from the Global South to be appointed as the general secretary and chief executive officer of the BWA.” Callam, a Jamaican, was elected general secretary of the BWA in July 2007 in Accra, Ghana. He is the first person of color and

BWA General Secretary Neville Callam receiving the Campbellsville University Leadership Award on March 25 from Joseph Owen (left), chair of Campbellsville University Board of Trustees, and John Hurtgen, dean of the School of Theology

aptist World Alliance General Secretary Neville Callam was

the first BWA general secretary who is neither European nor American. The BWA, formed in 1905, is a fellowship of 231 Baptist conventions and unions in 121 countries and territories comprising 40 million members in 177,000 churches. Campbellsville University, with an enrollment of 3,200 students, is a private liberal arts institution founded by Baptists in 1906. It offers almost 100 programs of study at the undergraduate, masters, postgraduate and pre-professional levels. Callam was the lecturer at Campbellsville University’s Baptist

Heritage Lecture Series on March 24 on the topic, World Baptists: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. He was also keynote speaker at the spring 2015 Chapel Convocation Series.

BWA Magazine Wins Award s p r a & g

Baptist World, the quarterly magazine of the Baptist World Alliance, won an award of excel- lence in the magazine, national category, from the Religion Communicators Council (RCC). The October/December 2014 issue of the magazine was recognized for its attractive- ness, use of images and color and content.

Other Baptist-affiliated publications were

recognized during the DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards ceremony, which is sponsored by the RCC. Samford University’s 2013-2014 Annual Report received Best of Class honors in the public relations materials category.

Christian Citizen - Communities of Care: The Church & Mental Illness, a publication of American Baptist Home Mission Societies and fellowship! magazine, published by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), received awards of merit, in the magazine, national category. The Alabama Baptist newspaper received an award of

excellence in the newspaper, local or regional category; and awards of excellence in the miscellaneous category were presented to Know It, Share It Card, published by Samford University, as well as for the 2014 General Assembly Guidebook published by CBF. The DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards are given annually

to active members of the RCC who demonstrate excellence in religious communications and public relations. Award categories include Periodicals, Public Relations

Materials, Writing, Graphic Design, Art and Photography, Audio and Video, Digital Communications and Social Media.

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