Saunders accepts Lipscomb's first Kopio Award
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Landon Saunders, longtime leader of the Heartbeat ministry, received Lipscomb University’s first Kopio Award during Summer Celebration Wednesday night.
“Someone has said, and I think it’s true, ‘It’s easier to be critical than it is to be creative.’ And yet he [Saunders] has lived his life trying to be creative, using the media that are available to share that message of the Gospel,” said Lipscomb President L. Randolph Lowry in presenting the award.
Kopio is transliterated from a Greek word that essentially means to labor to the point of exhaustion to the glory of God.
Saunders is the founder and president of Heartbeat, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people fulfill the promise of human life by discovering the possibility that despite circumstances, tragedy and suffering, theycan have a life that “loves to happen,” according to Saunders’ website.
For more than 40 years he has offered encouragement and fresh insight for dealing with life’s difficulties to tens of millions via NBC, CBS, Mutual and Armed Forces radio networks. His Feeling Good About Yourself and Life that Loves to Happen seminars have been held in more than 100 cities throughout North America.
Saunders was followed by the evening’s keynote speaker, Mike Cope, who began his new association with Saunders and Heartbeat after 27 years as a preaching minister, the last 20 served at Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas.
Summer Celebration, Lipscomb’s 82nd annual lectureship, continues through Saturday.