wfn.org | Bachus named director of Hispanic Resources

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March 18, 2003	News media contact: Kathy Gilbert7(615)742-54707Nashville,
Tenn.	10-32-71BPI{145}

NOTE: A photograph of Amanda Bachus is available.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Amanda Bachus has been named director of Hispanic
Resources for United Methodist Communications.

Bachus had served as associate editor of Hispanic Resources, which produces
the magazine el Intirprete and the news feature Noticias en Espaqol. She was
named director effective March 17.

"Amanda brings a solid church background, editorial and marketing skills to
the position," said M. Garlinda Burton, director of United Methodist News
Service and publisher and editor of Interpreter magazine. "And she has a firm
grasp of the needs of our diverse Latino audience. She has some good solid
ideas for broadening our scope with all our Hispanic resources."

In her new role, Bachus will help identify and develop resources and programs
to enhance the communications ministries of and with Hispanic United
Methodists.

Bachus, a longtime United Methodist, joined the communications agency in
summer 2002, after four years on the staff of the United Methodist Board of
Discipleship in Nashville. She had served as bilingual administrative
assistant, as well as bilingual marketing and customer service coordinator,
and editorial assistant for the Office of Hispanic Ministries. In her last
position at the discipleship board, she was also a certified facilitator for
the National Plan for Hispanic Ministries. 

A native of Bolivia, she graduated from St. Andrew's School in La Paz, where
she learned English. She holds an education degree from the State University
of San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia. While in the United States, she attended
the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg and Nashville (Tenn.)
State Technical Institute, where she received her business and computer
training. She is also fluent in Portuguese.

Bachus has an extensive marketing and product development background. For the
last 15 years, she has held bilingual administrative positions in the United
Methodist Publishing House, the United Methodist Board of Higher Education
and Ministry, and the Board of Discipleship. For four years, she worked for
Fruit of the Loom in the international training division and with the vice
president of international sales and marketing division.

"I believe she has an extremely broad understanding of the specific issues
and concerns of the Latin American community in the United States, the
Caribbean and South America, and she has already applied that knowledge in
her work with el Intirprete," Burton said. 

Bachus has served as interim director since October, when the position became
vacant.

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