Posted: 11/18/05
| Texas Baptist Missions Foundation President Bill Arnold (2nd from left) presents awards to (left to right) Camille Simmons, Paul and Shirley Piper and Joy Fenner. (Photo by Robyn Kenagy) |
Missions Foundation honors
four for missions contributions
By Haley Wright
AUSTIN–The Texas Baptist Missions Foundation honored four individuals for their missions contributions during a banquet held in conjunction with the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.
Shirley and Paul Piper Jr. received the Adventurer Award for Leadership in Missions. The award honors an individual or church who has advanced missions through significant missions activities, outstanding financial support or leadership in ministry opportunities.
The Pipers have provided no-interest and low-interest loans for new churches, helped build a hospital in Paraguay and Mexico, purchased a tool trailer for Texas Baptist Men Retiree Builders and provided funding for apartment ministries in Amarillo, Dallas, El Paso, Austin, Houston, Lubbock, Arlington and San Antonio.
San Antonio Baptist Association staff member Camille Simmons received the Innovator Award for Creativity in Missions.
The Innovator Award is bestowed upon a church or individual who developed a model for missions that others can adopt.
Charles Price, director of missions for the San Antonio Baptist Association, called her a woman with “creative solutions for kingdom advancement.”
She was honored for her work in missions that are aimed at meeting real human needs.
Joy Fenner received the Pioneer Award for Service in Missions, given to a person who is committed, creative and cooperative.
Under her leadership, Woman's Missionary of Texas enlarged its ministry with language churches by not only providing curriculum in seven languages for the week of prayer for Texas missions, but also by developing the Language Advisory Council and the African-American Advisory Council.
She was instrumental in the creation of WorldTouch, the endowment of Texas WMU, and she worked with national WMU to pioneer the national and state endowment partnerships called Touch Tomorrow Today.
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