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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

April 9, 2003

ELCA COUNCIL ELECTS MEMBERS TO BOARDS, COMMITTEES
03-075-JB

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA) elected clergy and lay people to fill vacancies
on boards, steering and advisory committees of the church when it met
here April 4-6.
     The Church Council is the ELCA's board of directors and serves as
the legislative authority of the church between churchwide assemblies.
Assemblies are held every other year; the next is Aug. 11-17, in
Milwaukee.
     The council elects clergy and lay people to fill new and unexpired
terms on boards, steering committees and certain advisory committees of
the ELCA. It also affirms certain positions recommended by commissions.
     The council elected:
     + Kent Burgess, King of Glory Lutheran Church, Billings, Mont., to
the board of the ELCA Division for Church in Society
     + the Rev. Cathy E. Rosenholtz, Our Saviour Lutheran Church,
Jamaica, N.Y.; Kathryn M. Lohre, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Pine
Island, Minn., and Jay McDivitt, King of Glory Lutheran Church,
Loveland, Colo., to the Steering Committee of the ELCA Commission for
Women
     + the Rev. Larry J. Jorgenson, Amazing Grace Lutheran Church,
Anchorage, Alaska, and the Rev. Beth Marie Warpmaeker, Christ the King
Lutheran Church, Houston, to the Steering Committee of the ELCA
Commission for Multicultural Ministries
     + the Rev. Richard N. Stewart, Christ's Lutheran Church, Oreland,
Pa.; Kathleen B. Lemmerbrock, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Bowling Green,
Ohio; and Christopher Warmanen, Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Chicago, to
the Advisory Committee of the ELCA Department for Communication
     + the Rev. Margaret A. Krych, St. Matthew Lutheran Church,
Springfield, Pa., to the board of Augsburg Fortress, publishing house of
the ELCA
     The council ratified appointments made by ethnic associations of
the church to the Commission for Multicultural Ministries.  Those
appointed were the Rev. Rosemary Sanchez, Cristo Rey Lutheran Church, El
Paso, Texas; Leila Amro, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, St. Charles, Ill.;
Eleanore H. Johnson, Lutheran Church of the Wilderness,  Bowler, Wis.;
Justin Solimon, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Albuquerque, N.M.; Tony
Clemente, Trinity Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Joseph Husary,
St. Peter Lutheran Church, San Leandro, Calif.
     Appointed to the Advisory Committee of the ELCA Department for
Human Resources were Susan Tolle, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Thousand
Oaks, Calif.; Mark Bergstedt, Grace Lutheran Church, Westerville, Ohio;
and Alfred V. Sagar, Ascension Lutheran Church, Jackson, Miss.
     In addition, the council transmitted to the 2003 Churchwide
Assembly a slate of names for the ELCA churchwide nominating committee.

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