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Both are youth representatives
Press Release No. 07/99

BRATISLAVA, Slovak Republic, 26 June 1999 (lwi) - The Evangelical
Lutheran Church of the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Kenya
Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC) have new representatives on the
Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council.

During the Council meeting here from 22 to 29 June 1999, Ms Madeleine
Zari-Doka, 26, was confirmed as elected youth member of the Council,
replacing Ms Anne-Marie Ndanga-Toue from the Lutheran church in the CAR.
Mr. Paul Mbugua Kamau, 27, also elected youth member, replaces former
KELC representative, Mr. Gabriel Kamau.

Madeleine, a mother of three young children, works as secretary for the
women's department and administration in her church. Kamau, who is
single, is a choirmaster in his local congregation, youth secretary in
the Nairobi parish and volunteer at the KELC's women's desk. The former
sits in the LWF Program Committee for Theology and Studies while the
latter joins the Standing Committee for International Affairs and Human
Rights. Their predecessors, elected at the Ninth Assembly in Hong Kong
in 1997, served on the same committees respectively. The CAR church has
55,000 while the KELC has 21,720 members.

In both cases but for different reasons, the previous Council members
have been replaced as they no longer enjoyed the confidence of the
respective member churches as stipulated in the LWF Bylaws. (See LWF
Directory   LWF Bylaws, Section 4.1.7 as adopted by the LWF Council,
Chicago, USA, 1991, including amendments adopted by the LWF Ninth
Assembly, Hong Kong, 1997.)

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