2008 Synod Assembly Election Nominees

 

Nominations also will be accepted from the floor on the first day of the Synod Assembly until 5 p.m.

 

Click HERE for Bios and Photos (ELCA Church Council)

Click HERE for Bios and Photos (all other nominations)

 

Synod Officers

Vice President – Mark Winzler (Concordia, Manchester, Conn.)

Secretary – Stephen M. Converse (Shepherd of the Valley, Groton, Mass.)

Treasurer – Jeffrey C. Swanberg (Immanuel, Holden, MA)

 

Synod Council

 

Youth representative at large

  • Alison Canino (Pilgrim, Warwick, RI)

 

Clergy (Connecticut)

  • Pr. James A.J. Debner (Zion, Southington, Conn.)

 

Clergy (Maine)

  • Pr. Marian E. Marks (Grace, Auburn, Maine)

 

Clergy (VT/NY/NH) – Vote for one

  • Pr. Sharon L. Hughes (Good Shepherd, Rutland, Vt.)
  • Pr. Thomas E. Teichmann (Messiah, Amherst, N.H.)

 

Clergy (Rhode Island)

  • No nominations as of 5/28/08

 

Lay Female (Massachusetts) – Vote for one

  • Beth Axelson (Trinity, Worcester, Mass.)
  • Kathy Read (First, West Barnstable, Mass.)

 

Lay Female (Connecticut)

  • Charlene M. Wright, Esq. (Immanuel, Oxford, Conn.)

 

Lay Female at large – Vote for one

  • Carol Brudnicki (Community, Enfield, N.H.)
  • Karin E. Kohl (Pilgrim, Warwick, R.I.)
  • Christine Mitchell (St. Andrew, Bristol, Conn.)

 

Lay Male who is a person of color and/or whose primary language is other than English – at large

  • Lloyd O. Smith (Grace, Hartford, Conn.)

 

Lay Male (Maine)

  • Joseph G. Hakanson (Holy Cross, Kennebunk, Maine)

 

Lay Male (Massachusetts) – Vote for one

  • Don Mitchell (St. Paul, Arlington, Mass.)
  • Oswald (“Ossie”) Rambarran (Zion, Oxford, Mass.)

 

Lay Male (VT/NY/NH) – Vote for one

  • Jeffrey Herman-May (Trinity, Brattleboro, Vt.)
  • Tommy Monareh (Imanuel Indonesian, Newington, N.H.)

 

Synod Committee on Discipline

 

Clergy at large – Vote for two

  • No nominations as of 5/28/08

 

Lay Female at large

  • Carol A. Kearns (St. Matthew, Avon, Conn.)

 

Lay Male at large

  • Harry R. Schuh (St. Matthew, Avon, Conn.)

 

Synod Consultation Committee

 

Clergy at large

  • No nominations as of 5/28/08

 

Lay person at large

  • Michael Scott (Holy Cross, Kennebunk, Maine)

 

2009 Churchwide Assembly

 

Lay person under age 25 – Vote for one

  • Samantha Claussen (Triumphant Cross, Salem, N.H.)
  • Rebecca Krentz-Wee (St. Michael’s, New Canaan, Conn.)

 

Female layperson who has never served as a voting member at an ELCA CWA – Vote for two

  • Nancy Hallberg-Emerson (St. Peter’s, Harwich, Mass.)
  • Elaine Ramshaw (Bethesda, New Haven, Conn.)
  • Beverly Savage (Prince of Peace, Augusta, Maine)

 

Female layperson at large

  • Paula Kent (Nativity, North Conway, N.H.)
  • Sister Virginia E. Strahan (Faith, Gardner, Mass.)

Female layperson who is a person of color and/or with a primary language other than English

  • Carmen M. Rodriguez-Rivera (Immanuel, Meriden, Conn.)

 

Male layperson who is a person of color and/or with a primary language other than

English

  • Lloyd O. Smith (Grace, Hartford, Conn.)

 

Male layperson who has never served as a voting member at an ELCA CWA – Vote for two

  • Stephen M. Converse (Shepherd of the Valley, Groton, Mass.)
  • Ronald A. Gustafson (Shepherd of the Hills, Montpelier, Vt.)

 

Male layperson at large

  • Bradford E. Cook (Gethsemane, Manchester, N.H.)

 

Clergy who has never served as a voting member at an ELCA CWA – Vote for two

  • Pr. Theresa A. Bianchi (Christ the King, Nashua, N.H.)
  • Pr. Linda R. Forsberg (First, East Greenwich, R.I.)
  • Pr. Richard A. Horner (Holy Cross, Kennebunk, Maine)
  • Pr. Scott R. Howard (St. Stephen, Marlborough, Mass.)
  • Pr. James W. Knowles (Trinity, Brattleboro, Vt.)
  • Pr. Mark A. Nordskog (Prince of Peace, Brookfield, Conn.)
  • Pr. Linn A. Opderbecke (Holy Trinity, Newington, N.H.)
  • Pr. Nathan D. Pipho (Good Shepherd, North Quincy, Mass.)

 

Clergy at large – Vote for two

  • Pr. Lisa C. Anderson (St. John, Brooklyn, Conn.)
  • Pr. G. Scott Cady (Emanuel, Manchester, Conn.)
  • Pr. Timothy Keyl (Christ the King, Nashua, N.H.)
  • Pr. JoAnn A. Post (Concordia, Manchester, Conn.)
  • Pr. John K. Stendahl (Lutheran Church of the Newtons, Newton, Mass.)

 

Clergy who is a person of color and/or with a primary language other than English

  • Pr. Gladys G. Moore (St. Matthew’s, Jersey City, N.J.)

 

 

ELCA Church Council – Nomination only

 

The 21st Annual Assembly of the New England Synod will nominate two lay females of color and/or whose primary language is other than English to the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly to stand for election to a six-year term on the Church Council of the ELCA. The 37-member Church Council is the board of directors of the ELCA and serves as the interim legislative authority between meetings of the churchwide assembly.

 

Female layperson who is a person of color and/or with a primary language other than English

  • Judith Barlow-Roberts (Christ the King, Windsor, Conn.)
  • Feronika A. Rambing Waworuntu (Imanuel Indonesian, Newington, N.H.)

 

Click HERE for Bios and Photos (ELCA Church Council)

Click HERE for Bios and Photos (all other nominations)

 

 

(As of 6/03/08)