Urban & Intercultural Ministry Awards

Each year at the EFCA Leadership Conference, ReachNational presents awards at the Urban & Intercultural Ministries luncheon to recognize urban and intercultural ministry leaders who exemplify our values of vision, courage, compassion and bridging. These are the 2009 award recipients:

Vision  

For looking into the future and seeing a situation not as it is, but as it can become. 
For inspiring all to achieve what others can only dream. 
For innovatively and boldly leading the way for greater kingdom impact.

Pastor Michael Martin
Learning to Live Fellowship, Inglewood, CA

Bridging

For understanding values, cultures, and perspectives.
For understanding barriers and working to bring all to unity.
For working with integrity to destroy walls of separation, to create a path to brotherly embrace.

Dr. José & Socorro Reyes
Dey De Reyes, El Paso, TX

Compassion

For caring deeply and expecting more than others think is possible.
For seeing potential and dignity where others can not.
For sensing pain, healing with mercy, and inspiring people.

Lisa Bodkin
New Hope Church, New Hope, MN

Courage

For taking the path others have not, and never losing sight of the dream.
For standing together and making tough decisions, all to meet the needs of others.
For holding onto unchanging principles while pursuing an ever changing path.

Pastor Lazarus John
Hope Sudanese Community Church, Omaha, NE