2010 Outstanding Church Youth Leader Award winners named

Twenty-eight nominees for the Outstanding Church Youth Leader Award were recognized during halftime of the PC-Davidson football game on Saturday, November 20. Congregations in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia presbyteries nominated high school juniors and seniors who serve in leadership roles in their churches.

“Each of these Outstanding Church Youth Leaders offers significant leadership, passion, and service to others in and through their church and communities,” said Lindy Vogado, PC’s Director of Campus Ministries. “As such, they are already expressing the motto of PC, ‘While we live, we serve.’”

The 2010 Outstanding Church Youth Leader Award was presented to Rachel Elizabeth Miles, a high school senior from Faith Presbyterian Church in Rincon, Georgia.

The first runner-up for the award was Jordan Taylor Dixon, a high school senior from First Presbyterian Church in Anderson, South Carolina.

This year, two tied for second runner-up for the award. Tiffany Dawn Higginbotham, a senior from Tyger River Presbyterian Church in Moore, SC, and Dillon John Parker, a senior from Matthews Presbyterian Church in Matthews, NC, were named second runners-up.

The overall winner will receive a $10,000 scholarship ($2,500 per year) to attend PC. All of the nominees will receive a $2,000 scholarship ($500 per year) to encourage their enrollment at PC.

In giving this annual award, PC hopes to inspire in youth leaders continued service and commitment to Jesus Christ through the Presbyterian Church (USA).  Through our OCYLA scholarship program, we seek to recognize and celebrate outstanding youth leadership in our church congregations and communities.