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Title: ELCA Assembly Elects Council, Committee, Board Members
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>August 26, 2009  

ELCA Assembly Elects Council, Committee, Board Members
09-CWA-51-CD*

MINNEAPOLIS (ELCA) -- Voting members of the 2009 Churchwide Assembly
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) elected lay leaders
and clergy to serve on the ELCA Church Council, churchwide committees and
boards.

The churchwide assembly, the chief legislative authority of the
ELCA, met here Aug. 17-23 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.  About
2,000 people participated, including 1,045 ELCA voting members.  The
theme for the biennial assembly was "God's work.  Our hands."

The ELCA Nominating Committee determines nominees for the voting
members.  Most elected will serve six-year terms.  Election results are:

>ELCA Church Council
>The Rev. Michael J. Schmidt, Sioux City, Iowa
>The Rev. Raymond A. Miller, Quakertown, Pa.
>The Rev. Kathryn A. Tiede, Lino Lakes, Minn.
>The Rev. Amsalu T. Geleta, Springfield, Va.
>Rebecca D. Carlson, Cumberland, Wis.
>Susan W. McArver, Columbia, S.C.
>Louise A. Hemstead, Cashton, Wis.
>Judith E. Barlow-Roberts, Windsor, Conn.
>Ivan A. Perez, Chicago
>Blaire P. Smith, Erie, Pa.
>William B. Horne II, Clearwater, Fla.

ELCA Evangelical Outreach and Congregational Mission Program Committee
The Rev. Erik T. Samuelson, Spokane, Wash.
Janet A. Peters, Flemington, N.J.
Paul H. Lewellan, Davenport, Iowa 
The Rev. Lori Ann Strang, Toledo, Ohio
Emried D. Cole, Baltimore

>ELCA Global Mission Program Committee
>The Rev. Lisa A. Smith, Anchorage, Alaska
>Martha R. Norat, Dorado, Puerto Rico
>R. Timothy Muth, Brookfield, Wis.
>The Rev. Douglas S. Cox, Excelsior, Minn.
>Amanda F. Tompkins, Tannersville, Pa.

>ELCA Vocation and Education Program Committee
>The Rev. John I. Rollefson, Los Angeles
>Alicia R. Anderson, Boalsburg, Pa.
>David M. Blomquist, Iron Mountain, Mich.
>The Rev. Lamont A. Wells, Philadelphia
>Kari A. Lipke, St. Peter, Minn.

>ELCA Church in Society Program Committee
>The Rev. William S. Maxon, Emmaus, Pa.
>Siri J. Fiebiger, Moorhead, Minn.
>Angela Ellis, Baltimore
>The Rev. Khader N. El-Yateem, Brooklyn, N.Y.
>The Rev. Kevin R. Maly, Denver

ELCA Multicultural Ministries Program Committee
The Rev. Susan L. Gamelin, High Point, N.C.
Jonathan G. Gomez, Phoenix, Ariz.
The Rev. Herbert G. Wounded Head III, Brookings, S.D.
Rose Oundjian, Las Vegas
Nathaniel P. Viets-VanLear, Chicago

Publishing House of the ELCA Board of Trustees
The Rev. Winston D. Persaud, Dubuque, Iowa
Rosemary R. Ohles, Lincoln, Neb.
Brilsford "Bril" B. Flint, Austin, Texas
Timothy I. Maudlin, Edina, Minn. 
The Rev. Brian C. King, Iowa Falls, Iowa

ELCA Mission Investment Fund Board of Trustees 
The Rev. Lorenz "Larry" W. Lutey, Naperville, Ill.
Kendra D. Brodin, Fridley, Minn.
Warren W. Hanson, Minneapolis
Judy L. Conklin, Crystal Lake, Ill.
Daniel M. Bringman, Gettysburg, Pa.

ELCA Board of Pensions Board of Trustees 

The Rev. Jeffrey D. Thiemann, Walnut Creek, Calif.
Jill A. Schumann, Gettysburg, Pa.
Lisa Ann Kro, Plymouth, Minn.
Kathleen K. Mooney, Cold Spring, Minn.
Kevin D. Anderson, Gaithersburg, Md.

ELCA Nominating Committee

The Rev. Herbert E. Anderson, Berkeley, Calif.
The Rev. Kathie Bender Schwich, Park Ridge, Ill.
Kathy J. Magnus, Edina, Minn.
Judith A. Tutt-Starr, Los Angeles
Ken F. Aicher, Tampa, Fla.
Brandon W. Huston, Hamilton, Ohio

>ELCA Committee on Discipline:
>The Rev. Michel D. Clark, Knoxville, Ill.
>The Rev. Joyce L. Piper, Willmar, Minn.
>The Rev. Andrea L. Walker, Summit, N.J.
>Kathryn L. Baerwald, Washington, D.C.
>Joanne Chadwick, San Francisco
>Janice M. Quirl, Austin, Texas
>Arthur E. Murphy, Bellaire, Texas
>Miguel A. Hernandez, El Paso, Texas

>ELCA Committee on Appeals
>The Rev. Philip L. Hougen, West Branch, Iowa
>The Rev. Matthew L. Riegel, Morgantown, W.Va.
>Madelyn H Busse, Denver
>George C. Watson, Port Huron, Mich.

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Information on the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly is at
http://www.ELCA.org/assembly on the Web.

* Carrie L. Draeger is a senior communication major with a concentration
in journalism at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash. This summer
she is an intern with the ELCA News Service.

For information contact:

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