Virginia Baptists were hard at work behind the scenes at the 20th Baptist World Congress, enriching the experience of more than 4,000 global Baptists.
HONOLULU — For many of the world’s 100 million Baptist adherents, initial reports from the 20th Baptist World Congress emanated from Room 325 of the Hawaii Convention Center — a small space allocated to the Congress’s press operations.
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A team of writers, photographers and editors — coordinated by Religious Herald managing editor Robert Dilday, working closely with Eron Henry, the BWA’s associate director for communications — covered the five-day event for press outlets around the world.
The communications team — all of whom volunteered for the assignment — included Religious Herald editor Jim White and several journalists from the Herald’s New Voice Media Group partners Associated Baptist Press and the Baptist Standard, and staff from the Baptist General Covention of Texas. Also among the group was photographer Pete Traynham, a former CBS News videographer whose wife, Kathe, is the BWA’s associate director of development.
“It was an impressive group of talented Baptist journalists,” said Dilday. “Over a five-day period, we generated and distributed about 35 news stories and four 8-page newspapers for Congress participants, and shot and processed hundreds of photographs.”
The press office also updated web pages and Facebook sites and tweeted the information to hundreds of Twitter followers.
Newstories from the event are collected in one location at www.religiousherald.org and photos may be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/bwa_2010.