HIU NEWS
2nd Annual Preaching Competition Ends in Two-Way Tie
May 6, 2019
Two students will split the prize in Hartford Seminary’s 2nd Annual Preaching Competition, held on May 2, 2019.
![2nd Annual Preaching Competition](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-12/DSC_2527-300x200.jpeg?itok=kCY_ym1u)
Six students gave six-to-eight-minute sermons before an audience of faculty, staff, and their peers, as well as a three-person judging panel. The judges were Profession Benjamin Watts, Interim Coordinator of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program Aida Mansoor, and Rabbi Debra Cantor.
The judges praised all the participants — Imam Safwan Shaikh, Enas Ghassal, Lakia Shavon Lightner-Padgett, David Figliuzzi, Olga E. Sanchez-Marano, and Amy Langston — for their inspirational words.
In the end, David Figliuzzi and Imam Safwan Shaikh were declared the two winners.
Watch the entire competition below!
![2nd Annual Preaching Competition](/sites/default/files/2021-12/DSC_2533.jpeg)
![2nd Annual Preaching Competition](/sites/default/files/2021-12/DSC_2536.jpeg)
![2nd Annual Preaching Competition](/sites/default/files/2021-12/DSC_2550.jpeg)
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