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The Award goes to the Universidad Biblica Latinoamericana (Latin American Biblical University, UBL), San Jose, Costa Rica for a project called "The Bible and Culture."  Selected professors of the University will conduct a series of investigative workshops combined with research within the racially diverse Caribbean region of Costa Rica on how gender and culture affected both the writing of the Bible and how it is read and interpreted.  The final document of this study will benefit future Biblical studies students and has the possibility of changing the way the Bible is studied, particularly within Latin America and the Afro/Indigenous cultures. 

BMPC has had a long-standing relationship with UBL. Gloria and Ross Kinsler, missionaries in the 1980s and 1990s, worked at the University and were supported by BMPC.  In recent years, Presbyterian Women and Youth Ministries at BMPC have supported mission/work trips to UBL.  Richard Shaull taught at the university and in 1997 was awarded Professor Emeritus.  BMPC member Nancy Johns, assisted the university in organizing the One Million Women campaign that raised a million dollars for the building of a new campus.