wfn.org | Re: United Methodist Daily News note 3101

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"UNITED METHODIST DAILY NEWS" by SUSAN PEEK on Aug. 11, 1991 at 13:58 Eastern,
about FULL TEXT RELEASES FROM UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE (3193 notes).

Note 3191 by UMNS on Sept. 26, 1996 at 16:39 Eastern (2033 characters).

Produced by United Methodist News Service, official news agency of
the United Methodist Church, with offices in Nashville, Tenn., New
York, and Washington.

CONTACT: Thomas S. McAnally                  477(10-33-71B){3191}
         Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470           Sept. 26, 1996

Kathy Thomas-Sano elected executive director
of United Methodist Asian American Federation

                by United Methodist News Service

     Kathy Thomas-Sano, Pasadena, Calif., has been elected
executive director of the National Federation of Asian American
United Methodists, effective Oct. 1.
     She succeeds the Rev. Peter Sun. Offices are located in San
Francisco. Announcement of the election was made by the Rev. Man
Singh Das, Aurora, Ill., chairperson of the caucus which represents
about 50,000 Asian American United Methodists.  Nearly 300 of the
denomination's 37,000 local churches have a predominant Asian
American membership.
     The caucus has an annual meeting and publishes a monthly
newsletter, Asian American News.
     Thomas-Sano, wife of Los Angeles Bishop Roy I.Sano, was born
in Hawaii of a Korean mother and a Caucasian father.
     For the past 11 years she has served as a consultant to the
church's Western Jurisdictional Inter-Ethnic Coordinating
Committee.  She has served as assocate director of the California
Nevada Conference Council on Ministries; acting director and
associate director of the Pacific and Asian American Center for
Theology and Strategies in Berkley, Calif.; coordinator of
Investors Services of the United Methodist Development Fund; and in
several positions with the church's New York-based Board of Global
Ministries.
     She has served as a governing board member of the National
Council of Churches and of two United Methodist churchwide
agencies: the Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious
Concerns and General Council on Ministries.

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     NOTE TO EDITORS:  Photo available upon request: (415) 776-
7747.     

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