Carole Lewis, best-selling author and national director of the First Place 4 Health Scripture-based weight loss program, accepted the 2013 Golden Scroll Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association’s 13th annual Golden Scroll Awards Banquet. Held Sunday, June 23, the event saw about 100 members of the group in attendance at the Ramada Plaza in Saint Louis.

Other individuals from AWSA’s ranks were honored at the banquet as well. Sue Badeau and her husband, Hector, were commended for their selfless devotion to raising their 22 children, 20 of whom were adopted.

Best-selling author Carol Kent received the AWSA of the Year award, presented by AWSA founder Linda Evans Shepherd, who said: “I’ve known Carol before God put the test in her testimony. Not only did Carol pass through her difficulties in God’s grace, she now leads others to do the same. She’s been an exemplary model to our authors, graciously giving her time and talents to encourage them.”
 
Crossway was named the Golden Scroll Publisher of the Year, honored as such for outstanding ministry partnerships with authors. The Golden Scroll Editor of the Year went to Sandra VanderZicht of Zondervan, and Fiction Editor of the Year was awarded to Vicki Crumpton of Baker Publishing Group.

The Golden Scroll Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year went Karen Whiting and Jocelyn Green for Stories of Faith and Courage From the Home Front (God & Country Press/AMG Publishers). The Golden Scroll Award for Novel of the Year went to Jeanette Windle for Congo Dawn (Tyndale House Publishers).

New York Times best-selling author Lysa TerKeurst was keynote speaker. She challenged attendees, who were mostly women, to be careful not to chain their identity to their insecurities, but rather to set their hearts and minds on things above and chain their identity to God’s promises.

Author Kathi Macias emceed the event, recording artist Lisa Troyer performed a parody written by Martha Bolton.

AWSA, an outreach of Right to the Heart Ministries, counts more than 350 women authors who both publish and speak nationally among its ranks.

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