CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Concordia Historical Institute, the Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, presented an award Nov. 9 to MOSAIC, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), for a recent segment featuring Lutheran missionaries in Madagascar.
The story, "A Century in Madagascar," was included in the MOSAIC Spring 1999 issue. The segment was produced by the ELCA Department for Communication, with the assistance of the ELCA Division for Global Mission. The video segment focused on the missionary ministry of the Quanbeck family. Members of the family have served people in Madagascar through several generations, including Katherine and Stanley Quanbeck who serve there today.
The award recognized the story "as a significant contribution to the Lutheran archives and history."
Timothy Frakes, ELCA Department for Communication, produces and edits MOSAIC, which is issued four times a year.
The MOSAIC Winter 2000 issue will include three segments related to the Great Lakes, emphasizing the importance of the natural resource and the lakes' relationships to the people who live near them.
The winter issue will be available Dec. 1. Segments will feature:
+ Walter Sve, an ELCA member and commercial fisherman who has been fishing in Lake Superior for more than 50 years;
+ Roy Anderson, a veteran sailor and eyewitness to the wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, a cargo vessel that sank in Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975, during a storm.
+ a visit to the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, and a trip on a scientific research vessel, the Blue Heron.
The program will also feature tips on water cleanliness and conservation.
MOSAIC is produced and distributed by the ELCA Department for Communication. It is intended for educational use in a variety of congregational settings including Sunday School classes, adult forums, youth groups, women's and men's groups, new member classes, church council meetings, committee meetings and other organizational meetings.
Each issue includes a user's guide, with a synopsis of each segment and discussion questions. MOSAIC is issued quarterly. Annual subscriptions are available through the ELCA Department for Communication. -- -- --
Specific information about MOSAIC subscriptions and the contents of each issue are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.elca.org/co/mosaic or by contacting the ELCA Department for Communication by phone at 800/628-3522 ext. 6009. Digital photographs that accompany each story can be requested by e-mail to mosaic@elca.org or by phone.
For information contact:
John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or NEWS@ELCA.ORG
http://listserv.elca.org/archives/elcanews.html
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About the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:
The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with 2.8 million members in more than 8,500 worshiping communities across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region. Known as the church of "God's work. Our hands.," the ELCA emphasizes the saving grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unity among Christians and service in the world. The ELCA's roots are in the writings of the German church reformer Martin Luther.
For information contact:
Candice Hill Buchbinder
Public Relations Manager
Candice.HillBuchbinder@ELCA.org
