Presbyterian Life & Witness videographers, photographers, communicators and editors are honored
Associated Church Press releases its 2025 ‘Best of the Church Press’ list
LOUISVILLE — Associated Church Press has released the list of winners from its Best of the Church Press Awards for 2025. Staff from Presbyterian Life & Witness in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) were among those honored during ACP’s convention in Toronto earlier this month.
Go here to see the complete list of honorees. Randy Hobson, creative lead for PL&W’s multimedia team, is president of ACP’s Board of Directors.
Beth Waltemath of PL&W and Mike Fitzer of Film180 won an Award of Merit for their “1001 New Worshiping Communities 2025 gathering centers on rest” piece.
Multimedia producer Rich Copley won Awards of Merit for his “Presbyterian Disaster Assistance volunteers at work one year after Helene” photo and his photo spread, “Visiting the site of Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church, destroyed by wildfire.”
PC(USA) Communications won an Award of Merit in the Best in Class category for video production.
Waltemath won for her feature article, “From crisis to community, then back to camp.”
Multimedia Producer Kristen Gaydos won awards of merit for “Presbytery of San Gabriel returns ancestral lands to Gabrieleno Tongva Tribal Council” and “Presbyterian Women gather in NYC for the UN Commission on the Status of Women.”
Mike Givler of the Synod of the Trinity won an Honorable Mention for his “A century later, First Hazleton’s organ goes home to Pasadena.”
Presbyterian News Service Editor Mike Ferguson won an Honorable Mention for “The right place, the right time, with the right heart.”
Multimedia Producer Alex Simon teamed with Melody Smith, Manager of Story Ministry in PL&W, for an Honorable Mention for their “Circleville Presbyterian goes beyond the walls of the church.”
Unbound: The Intersections of Faith and Justice, edited by Lee Catoe, took home five awards.
Awards of Merit went to the writers of “Queering the Bible: Queering Job,” Shantell Hinton-Hill for “Sittin’ Somewhere between Stillness and Holy Rage: A Womanist Call to Sacred Belonging in Lent” and Sam Lundquist’s “Heels that Heal: Wholeness on a Holy Halloween.”
Honorable Mention awards went to Jules Leslie Webb for “Sequential Theology” and Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi for “A World in Need of Leaderships: An Anti-Colonial Reflection.”
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