Awards for Faith Today work from 2025

Join us in congratulating writers and other contributors whose work has been judged excellent.

Awards for work the Faith Today team does to serve you, our audience, are always a source of encouragement. Such awards come from contests we enter each year, which involve independent judges giving us advice, critique and kudos about our work so that we keep serving you better.

This year's Canadian Christian Communicators Association awards were announced May 15. Contributors from Faith Today won six first-place awards, one honourable mention, four seconds and three thirds. The contest offers about 40 categories, going beyond text to include awards for audiovisual production, design, social media and more.

• 1st place, news story: Patricia Paddey for “WEA assembly celebrates the multiplicity of evangelicalism”
• 1st place, service journalism: Catherine Morris for “Reaching behind bars: How virtual volunteering is making prison ministry more accessible than ever”
• 1st place, first-person account: Jenna Sanderson for “Image bearers of God's love: Able-bodied and disabled people are coworkers in ministry”
• 1st place, poetry: Debbie Sawczak for “On pause”
• 1st place, front cover (mags 10,000+): Graphic designer Janice Van Eck for Mar/Apr 2025 front cover “Watch the lamb” (with illustration adapted from Shutterstock.com)
• 1st place, audio/video interview: Bill Fledderus for “Coping with stress in an increasingly unstable world: The FT interivew with Jennifer Bowen” (with audio producer David Auyeung). The edited and condensed text version of this interview also won 3rd place in the interview category.
• 2nd place, feature design (magazines): Janice Van Eck for “Watch the lamb” (with illustrations adapted from Shutterstock.com)
• 2nd place, blog: for FaithToday.ca/Blog based on three samples: “Five men learning to love well” (author Paul Edward Hughes), “Handing on faith to the next generation” (author Matthew R.S. Todd), “Rethinking Canada's congregational leadership crisis” (author Gordon T. Smith)
• 2nd place, general excellence (magazines): based on three sample issues from 2025 (Mar/Apr, Jul/Aug, Sep/Oct)
• 2nd place, feature: Jon Corbin for “Hip hop was always part of the story: Ministry in a vibrant but misunderstood culture”
• 3rd place, photo: Caroline Ryan for “Photo of Angie Peters of Yonge Street Mission"
• honourable mention, social media campaign: Brian Lopez and Sammy Kyereme for “Reel for podcast episode on pastoral shortages"