Missions Growth Home Team Office Baptist Men on Mission Extension Ministries ... Tutoring Children and Youth Workshop Literacy Missions Volunteers Honored Release Date: 05/19/2003 LOUISVILLE Debbie Steger, a member of Hickory Grove Baptist Church, Independence, was awarded the Lillian Isaacs award for her work teaching adults to read and tutoring children. Gracie Erwin, a member of Kirksey Baptist Church, was recognized with the D.M. and Kay Aldridge Award for her ministry teaching English as a Second Language. Linda Netherly, also a member of Hickory Grove Baptist Church where Steger's husband Charles serves as pastor, nominated Steger. Erwin, who has worked as an English as a Second Language (ESL) tutor, workshop leader and program director for more than 30 years, was nominated by Connie White, a Missions Service Corps consultant from Eddyville. The Lillian Isaacs Award is named for the woman who first organized literacy missions in Eastern Kentucky at Clear Creek Bible College in 1959. Literacy missions ministry soon spread across the Southern Baptist Convention. Isaacs, now in her 80s, lives in Florida. The conference also included skills-building workshops for literacy volunteers and a presentation by keynote speaker Gayle Leininger, a retired North American Mission Board national literacy missionary. | |
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