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Feltman Named Director For Lutheran Disaster Response


From NEWS@ELCA.ORG
Date Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:25:52 -0500

ELCA NEWS SERVICE

June 9, 2004

Feltman Named Director For Lutheran Disaster Response
04-118-MR

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Heather L. Feltman has been named director of
Lutheran Disaster Response, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), and
director for ELCA Domestic Disaster Response, effective July 1.
     "Our ELCA Domestic Disaster ministry is an intricate piece for living
into the full expression of the ELCA's plan for mission.  It is a great
expression of being the public church at work," said Feltman.
     Lutheran response to a disaster is often carried out by a local team
providing emergency supplies, offering pastoral care and counseling,
coordinating volunteer efforts in relief and rebuilding, and providing
grants to survivors of disasters.  Response is often coordinated with
other interfaith and community efforts.
     "Heather brings a wealth of experience and personal skills to this
task, which will significantly enrich the life and ministry of the ELCA,"
said the Rev. Rebecca S. Larson, executive director, ELCA Division for
Church in Society.
     Feltman, 40, is a diaconal minister and serves as director for
Lutheran Advocacy and Public Policy of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., and
director of congregational and community partnerships, Lutheran Family
Services of the Carolinas, Columbia.
     She has served Lutheran Family Services since 2000 and Lutheran
Advocacy and Public Policy of South Carolina since 2002.  From 1996 to
2000, Feltman was a director of the South Carolina State Council of
Churches.  She served as a board member for the ELCA Division for Church
in Society, an advocacy consultant for the division from 1997 to 1999, and
as preschool director of Hephatha Lutheran School, Anaheim Hills, Calif.,
from 1988 to 1990.  Hephatha is a school of the LCMS.
     In 1986 Feltman earned a bachelor's degree in social work from
Illinois State University, Normal, Ill.  She earned a master's degree at
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, in 1999, and studied
marriage and family counseling at California State University, Fullerton,
Calif., in 1990.  She will earn another master's degree in nonprofit
management at Regis University, Denver, later this year.
     Feltman and her husband, the Rev. Ron W. Feltman, a pastor of the
ELCA, have one son, Seth.

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John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org
http://www.elca.org/news


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