The 2008 E.A. McDowell Award for individual Christian service was given in absentia to Cyndi Campsen Mosteller of Charleston in recognition of her work sharing the gospel through “notable service in the area of culture reform.”
The award was announced during the annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Nov. 11-12. Mosteller was unable to attend the presentation ceremony.
Mosteller has been a keynote speaker at pro-life rallies and is a longstanding member of the National Right to Life Committee. She has been a national policy advisor and media contact for family and cultural issues for several national candidates and is the founder of the America Deserves an Honorable President campaign.
While serving as a DHEC board member, she spearheaded the strongest abortion clinic regulation in the nation.
She serves as the governor’s appointee to the Commission on Higher Education, where she is chairman of the Access and Equity Committee. She has worked to increase college access and equity for South Carolina needs-based scholarship funding.
Mosteller serves on the board of directors of Heritage Community Services, an organization that receives federal Title V welfare reform funds for abstinence education in public and private South Carolina schools.
She has appeared in numerous media outlets including print, radio, and television. She was a frequent guest on ABC’s “Politically Incorrect” with host Bill Maher and has served as a political analyst for local TV stations in Charleston.
Mosteller is an active member of East Cooper Baptist Church, where she teaches and disciples high school students, including three teenagers of her own.