Title: ELCA Council Elects Leaders to Fill Council, Committee Vacancies ELCA NEWS SERVICE
April 18, 2007
ELCA Council Elects Leaders to Fill Council, Committee Vacancies 07-062-MRC
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) elected leaders to fill vacancies on the Church Council, the churchwide Committee on Appeals, a program committee and an advisory committee of the church. It also transmitted a slate of nominees for the 2007 ELCA Churchwide Assembly to consider for election.
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 April 14-16. Assemblies are held every other year; the next is here Aug. 6-11.
The Rev. David P. Anderson, St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran Church, Strongsville, Ohio, was elected to serve on the Church Council. Anderson replaces the Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, Cuyahoga Falls, who resigned. Eaton was elected bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod, Cuyahoga, on Dec. 4, 2006.
The Rev. A. Donald Main, bishop of the ELCA Upper Susquehanna Synod, Lewisburg, Pa., was elected to serve on the churchwide Committee on Appeals. The Rev. Jesse D. Hill, Living Saviour Lutheran Church, Charlotte, N.C., was elected to fill a vacancy on the program committee for ELCA Multicultural Ministries.
The Rev. Harold W. Eppley, Lincoln Park Lutheran Church, Milwaukee; Frank Ramos, communication consultant, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico; and Rick White, publisher, Advance Publications of Perry and Juniata Counties, Leck Kill, Pa., were elected to fill vacancies on the advisory committee for The Lutheran, the magazine of the ELCA.
The council transmitted to the 2007 ELCA Churchwide Assembly a slate of nominees to serve on the churchwide nominating committee.
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John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org http://www.elca.org/news ELCA News Blog: http://www.elca.org/news/blog