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LWF Assembly elects 48 to Council

HONG KONG, July 25, 1997 (lwi) - The Lutheran World Federation Assembly
elected 48 members of the LWF Council to lead the work of federation until
the next Assembly. Assemblies are usually held every six or seven years.

Those elected by the Assembly included 23 ordained men, five ordained
women, 11 lay women, six female youth and three male youth. No lay men were
elected.

Only two of the 48 had previously served as members the council, which
meets annually. The LWF president, Bishop Christian Krause of the Lutheran
Church of Brunswick, Germany, also serves on the Council to bring its total
membership to 49.

The Council elects the LWF treasurer and five vice presidents from among
its members.

Those elected to the Council by region and category were:

Africa
Lay , female - Abrash Dinsa, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus.
Ethiopia; Doreen Dlamini, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa,
South Africa; Parmata Ishaya, the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria;
Julia Hangula (Iilonga), Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia.
Ordained, male - Goyek Daga, Church of the Lutheran Brethren of Cameroon;
Samson Mushemba, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania; Benjamin
Rabenorolahy, Malagasy Lutheran Church, Madagascar; Philip Robinson,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana.
Youth, female - Anne-Maria Ndanga-Toue, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the
Central African Republic.
Youth male - Gabriel Kamau, Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kenya.

Asia
Lay , female - Lydia Siahaan, Protestant Christian Batak Church, Indonesia;
Tsai Shu-Jen Weng, Taiwan Lutheran Church.
Ordained, female - Prasanna Kumari, The Arcot Lutheran Church, India; Ken
Phin Pang, Basel Christian Church of Malaysia.
Ordained, male - Penjob Kusawadee, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Thailand; Lam Tak-Ho, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong; David Piso,
Gutnius Lutheran Church - Papua New Guinea; Harlen Simangunsong, Indonesian
Christian Church, Indonesia; Mounib Younan, the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in Jordan.
Youth, male - Ipendra Borgoary, Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church,
India.

Western Europe
Lay , female - Ermina Freytag, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church,
Germany; Dorothea Jetter, Evangelical Church in Wurttemberg, Germany.
Ordained, female - Beate Schelmat-Von Kirchbach, Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Saxony, Germany.
Ordained, male - Ernst-Christian Gerhold, Evangelical Church of the
Augsburg Confession in Austria; Hans Schmidt, Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Hanover, Germany; Joachim Track, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria,
Germany.
Youth, female - Mary E. Janssen Van Raay, Evangelical Lutheran Church in
the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Youth, male - Wolfgang Lindner, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia,
Germany.

Nordic countries
Lay, female - Sigrun Mogedal, Church of Norway.
Ordained, female - Mette Geil, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.
Ordained, male - Thorbjorn Arnason, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland;
K.G. Hammar, Church of Sweden; Eero Huovinen, Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Finland.
Youth, female - Helle Rosenkvist, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.

Central Eastern Europe
Lay, female - Tamara Tatsenko, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and
Other States, Russian Federation.
Ordained, male - Julius Filo, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg
Confession in the Slovak Republic; Bela Harmati, Lutheran Church in
Hungary; Jaan Kiivit, Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Estonia.
Youth, female - Renata Hinrichs, Evangelical Lutheran Church of the
Augsburg Confession in Poland.

Latin America and the Caribbean
Lay, female - Ilse Labadie, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Suriname.
Ordained, male - Huberto Kirchheim, Evangelical Church of the Lutheran
Confession in Brazil; Stefan Schaller of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Chile.
Youth, female -Zulma Ineyda Ojeda, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia.

North America
Ordained female - Susan Nagle, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
United States of America.
Ordained male - H. George Anderson, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
USA; Emanuel Grantson, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, USA; Telmor
Sartison, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.
Youth female - Dianha Ortega, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, USA.

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