2010

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Each year, the EES Board of Directors selects one to three grant recipients from the prior year whose work best exemplifies the objectives of the Society. Recipients are selected for the scope, quality and particularly for the evangelical impact of the project.

The award was named in November, 2007 for retiring Board Chair the Rev. Dr. Michael Morgan. Mike received support from the Society as a seminarian and served on the Board for many years. As Chair, he established the Director's Award in 2002.

The 2010 Morgan Directors' Award winners are: the Rev. Andrea Baker (MDiv. 2010, Church Divinity School of the Pacific), Mr. Andrew D. Lobban (MDiv. 2011, Seminary of the Southwest, and Ms. Constance Wilson (former staff, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary).

The Rev. Baker, far right, with Deacon Olga Barrera of Honduras and the team from the Diocese of Northern California	Andrea Baker assembled a team of youth and adults from the Diocese of Northern California to plan and lead Camp Holy Spirit in Tela, Honduras. Working with Honduran volunteers, they adapted the model of a residential US church camp for twenty participants in summer 2010. Baker now serves as Superintendent of Episcopal Schools in the Diocese of Honduras.
Lobban leads a discussion during the retreat	Andy Lobban worked with classmate Diane Pike to offer a Cursillo-style retreat in a San Antonio homeless shelter in January, 2010. Enlisting support from the Diocese of West Texas and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, they recruited eleven male and female shelter residents for the six-night event. At a follow-up meeting with participants a month later, they discussed living the rules of life the participants had adopted at the retreat.
Wilson, standing, with Bishops Joseph Garang Atem and Jeffrey Lee to the left and members of St. Barnabas, Jamam to the right	Connie Wilson, who was Director of Communications at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary when the grant was awarded, traveled with a professional photographer and a professional videographer to the Diocese of Renk in Southern Sudan to film and photograph the work of the Episcopal Church in Sudan. The team produced two documentary videos and a book of portrait photographs of church members and leaders for use by the ECS and US companion dioceses and parishes to tell the story of successful partnership and ministry in the ECS.