Each year, the EES Board of Directors selects one to three grant recipients from the prior year whose work best exemplifies the objectives of the Society. Recipients are selected for the scope, quality and particularly for the evangelical impact of the project.

The award was named in November, 2007 for retiring Board Chair the Rev. Dr. Michael Morgan. Mike received support from the Society as a seminarian and served on the Board for many years. As Chair, he established the Director's Award in 2002.

	The 2008 Morgan Award recipients are the Rev. Shelley Booth Denney, MDiv. ’08, Church Divinity School of the Pacific and the Ms. Jane Jeuland, MDiv. ’09, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The Rev. Denny’s eight-week immersion in summer, 2007, included taking language classes; observation and teaching in an existing Church School in Amatepec, Soyapongo; observing the work of the Anglican Church and Episcopal Relief & Development; establishing a Church School in El Maizal and writing curriculum in Spanish and English; and, finally, leading the first-ever diocesan Church School teacher training workshop, which was attended by representatives from all but three diocesan parishes. Her work is an outstanding model of effective mission and evangelism.
	Ms. Jeuland’s work began as a project to develop a needs-assessment for an after-school program for high schoolers in inner-city New Haven, and developed into one year of training, capacity-building in the parish and neighborhood, and grant-writing and a second year to pilot and launch the program. She interrupted her studies for one year to join the parish staff as the volunteer Director of Long-Range Planning and to implement the program. The transformation at St. Andrew’s is a model for church development and growth within the inner city African American community.
Past Winners: 2007