KBC Announces 2008 Literacy Award Recipients
Release Date: 05/02/2008

WILLIAMSBURG – The Kentucky Baptist Convention has recognized Diane Back and Jackie Walker with 2008 literacy awards for outstanding volunteer service in literacy missions.

Nominated by their peers and selected from over 600 literacy volunteers in Kentucky, Back and Walker were recognized during the April 25-26 Literacy Volunteers Conference at the Cumberland Inn in Williamsburg.

Back was awarded the Lillian Isaacs Award for Teaching Children and Youth, and Walker received the D.M. & Kay Aldridge Award for English as a Second Language. Both recipients are members of First Baptist Church, Hopkinsville.

The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s Literacy Missions program works to mobilize volunteers who help Kentucky residents learn how to read and write. Its ministries include Tutoring Children and Youth, Adult Reading and Writing, Conversational English and English as a Second Language.

The Kentucky Baptist Convention is a cooperative missions and ministry organization made up of more than 2,400 autonomous Baptist churches in Kentucky. A variety of state and worldwide ministries are coordinated through its administrative headquarters in Louisville, Ky. including: missions work, disaster relief, ministry training and support, church development, evangelism and more. For more information, visit www.kybaptist.org.
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