Conference Awards Honor Outstanding Christian Service
Dover, DE, June 16, 2010—For 80 of her almost 98 years, Audrey Reynolds has taught Sunday school at Calvary United Methodist Church in the Wilmington District. She also still has a ministry to shut-ins; she drives herself to the church several times a week.
Audrey was honored on June 12 for her amazing service to Jesus Christ by the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. She received in person the 2010 Howard J. Mason Evangelism Award. The award, named for a former lay leader of the conference, recognized meritorious work to win persons to Christ and further the kingdom of God on earth.
Audrey Reynolds not only has taught hundreds of persons in her Sunday school classes but, according to many reports, also spreads God’s Word through her everyday example. She is fond of saying, “I love you, but God loves you more.”
Linda Squier of Chesapeake City, Maryland, received the Harry Denman Evangelism Award, which each year honors someone who does outstanding work to make disciples of Jesus Christ. She is a lay member of Jacob’s Well, a new worshipping community on the Chesapeake City United Methodist Charge.
Linda Squier is known for her personal evangelism. A delivery person for “Little Debbie,” she builds relationships in the course of each day, praying with persons and distributing pocket crosses. She is part o f an emerging ministry, called “Divine Divas,” designed to help teenage girls connect with God.
An award for promoting inclusiveness within the church, the Alberta Browne Award, went to the Rev. C. Richard Edmund of the Ewell-Smith Island Charge in Maryland.
Nakakakena-boe harris of St. John’s Church, Seaford, received the William Richard Wynder Award for outstanding contributions to race relations and inclusiveness. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota and an associate member of the Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware.
Rev. Frances M. Fitchett of Crisfield-Shiloh Charge in the Salisbury District received the 2010 Black Methodist for Church Renewal Scholarship. She is a student at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC.
Two conference merit scholarships went to Megan J. Edwards of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Wilmington, a student at Wesley College, Dover, and Jessica Page Guyer of Lincoln Church in Lincoln, Delaware, who is studying at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Recipients of the Order of St. Barnabas Award, given at a banquet last April, were recognized by the conference. These citations honor significant contributions to the “four measures of T—target prayer, time, treasure, and talent.”