History of the Richard Shaull Award Recipients

What is The Richard Shaull Worldwide Ministries Fund and Award?
The Richard Shaull Worldwide Ministries Award is an annual award for special mission projects consistent with the goals of Worldwide Ministries at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church (as approved by the BMPC Session) and consistent with the life and witness of Richard Shaull. The purpose of the award is to fund new mission undertakings, to provide support for remarkable mission leaders, and to promote the mission and ministry of Christ’s Church in the world. To qualify, projects must fall into the categories of social justice or transformational ministry. The Award is funded through capital funds raised in the BMPC Campaign for Worship, Music and Mission. The campaign funds so designated are invested with the BMPC Foundation as a restricted fund. The income from the Richard Shaull Fund is awarded once each year as a special grant made outside the World Wide Ministries Council (WMC) budget and administered by the Worldwide Ministries Council. It is a one-time grant funding new projects that are outside the WMC budget.
 

Who was Richard Shaull? 1919 – 2002
Richard Shaull was a member of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, Parish Associate of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and Professor of Ecumenics Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was an ordained Presbyterian Minister, an educator, religious leader, liberation theologian, missionary and author whose career spanned more than half a century. His quiet influence was felt in the Presbyterian Church (USA), the World Council of Churches, in the Church in Latin America, and in the lives of countless students on several continents. He was a member of BMPC’s Worldwide Ministries Council and helped the Council increasingly move toward ministries of justice and transform. He had a deep belief in the possibility of radical change on both social and personal levels and spent his life working with others toward the realization of this dream. At the time of Dick’s death a colleague wrote: “Shaull spoke truth to power -- which is brave, and life to death -- which is transcendent.”

The first award was presented on March, 2006

    Please read the announcement for the Shaull Award here.

    Shaull Award Application (deadline March 1st)