Presbyterian Life & Witness videographers, photographers, communicators and editors are honored

LOUISVILLE — Associated Church Press has launched the listing of winners from its Best of the Church Press Awards for 2025. Staff from Presbyterian Life & Witness within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been amongst these honored throughout ACP’s convention in Toronto earlier this month.

Go here to see the entire listing of honorees. Randy Hobson, artistic lead for PL&W’s multimedia staff, is president of ACP’s Board of Directors.

Beth Waltemath of PL&W and Mike Fitzer of Film180 gained an Award of Merit for his or her “1001 New Worshiping Communities 2025 gathering centers on rest” piece.

Multimedia producer Rich Copley gained Awards of Merit for his “Presbyterian Disaster Assistance volunteers at work one year after Helene” photograph and his photograph unfold, “Visiting the site of Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church, destroyed by wildfire.”

PC(USA) Communications gained a Best in Class award for video manufacturing. 

Waltemath gained for her function article, “From crisis to community, then back to camp.”

Multimedia Producer Kristen Gaydos gained awards of advantage for “Presbytery of San Gabriel returns ancestral lands to Gabrieleno Tongva Tribal Council” and “Presbyterian Women gather in NYC for the UN Commission on the Status of Women.”

Mike Givler of the Synod of the Trinity gained an Honorable Mention for his “A century later, First Hazleton’s organ goes home to Pasadena.”

Presbyterian News Service Editor Mike Ferguson gained an Honorable Mention for “The right place, the right time, with the right heart.”

Multimedia Producer Alex Simon teamed with Melody Smith, Manager of Story Ministry in PL&W, for an Honorable Mention for his or her “Circleville Presbyterian goes beyond the walls of the church.”

Unbound: The Intersections of Faith and Justice, edited by Lee Catoe, took dwelling 5 awards.

Awards of Merit went to the writers of “Queering the Bible: Queering Job,” Shantell Hinton-Hill for “Sittin’ Somewhere between Stillness and Holy Rage: A Womanist Call to Sacred Belonging in Lent” and Sam Lundquist’s “Heels that Heal: Wholeness on a Holy Halloween.”

Honorable Mention awards went to Jules Leslie Webb for “Sequential Theology” and Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi for “A World in Need of Leaderships: An Anti-Colonial Reflection.”