Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America

The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship 2008 Peaceseeker Award

is presented to Gary Cozette, who exemplifies ecumenical Christian peacemaking through solidarity with the victims of armed conflict in Latin America.

For your having been a Presbyterian lay mission worker in El Salvador in dangerous times;

For the inclusive nature of your witness, expressed with skill and sensitivity in the founding of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America, a six-hundred member network of laity and clergy;

For your deep concerns for the displaced persons of Colombia expressed through your work with the Chicago Presbytery as Co-Chair of its "Congregations in Solidarity with Latin America", focused especially on Afro-Colombians;

For support and friendship given to Colombian pastor Milton Mejia and his family during their political asylum in Chicago;

And for your professional and personal witness in support of the rights and dignityto all persons without regard to their sexual orientation.

Ecumenical, steadfast, and always grassroots, you work is a model for us all.

At the 218^th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

San Jose, California

June 25, 2008