The Courageous Leadership Award was created to honor churches doing exceptional work fighting the AIDS pandemic. It is not about handing out awards for the sake of lifting up a church or a leader. It is about creating awareness, inspiring engagement, and moving resources to the places that are most devastated by AIDS. One church leader stated recently The Courageous Leadership Award is “a clarion call to the world that the Church is alive and active on the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time – AIDS!”