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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

November 18, 2002

ELCA CHURCH COUNCIL ELECTS BOARD, COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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     CHICAGO (ELCA)   The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA) elected clergy and lay individuals to fill
vacancies on boards, steering and advisory committees of the church.
It also acted to forward a resolution to the 2003 ELCA Churchwide
Assembly to elect the Rev. David L. Miller to serve a second four-
year term as editor of The Lutheran magazine.
     The Church Council is the ELCA's board of directors and serves
as the legislative authority of the church between churchwide
assemblies.  The council met here Nov. 15-17.  Assemblies are held
every other year; the next is Aug. 11-17, 2003, in Milwaukee.
     The council elects clergy and lay individuals to fill unexpired
terms on boards, steering committees and certain advisory committees
of the ELCA.  It also affirms certain positions recommended by
commissions.
     The council elected:
     + the Rev. Javier R. Alanis, St. John Lutheran Church, San
Antonio, Texas, to the ELCA Commission for Multicultural Ministries
steering committee;
     + the Rev. Karen G. Bockelman, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church,
Duluth, Minn., to The Lutheran	 the magazine of the ELCA   advisory
committee;
     + Kristina L. Diaz, Iglesia Luterana Buen Pastor, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, to the ELCA Commission for Women steering committee;
     + the Rev. M. Timothy Fong, Chinese Life Lutheran Church,
Alhambra, Calif., to the ELCA Division for Outreach board; and
     + the Rev. Shauna K. Hannan, Lutheran Church of the Good
Shepherd, Moorhead, Minn., to the ELCA Division for Global Mission
board.
     In a separate action, the council acted to transmit to the 2003
Churchwide Assembly a resolution to elect the Rev. David L. Miller to
serve another four-year term as editor of The Lutheran, effective
Nov. 1, 2003.  The nomination process also included the magazine's
advisory committee and the presiding bishop.
     The 1999 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Denver first elected
Miller to serve a four-year term as editor of the periodical.  From
the beginning of the magazine in 1988 to 1999, Miller served as a
senior editor for The Lutheran.

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