Other Groups and Organizational Units

In addition to the four ministry teams, the synod's constitution and by-laws allow for the formation of other support groups, task forces, committees, and organizational units as needed to provide for other ministry functions of the synod.

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Archives Committee

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

John Pearson 

Robert Harris, Jr.

John Peterson (Region 7)

Nancy Miller

Carl Shankweiler (synod staff)


ASTaR (Appalachian, Small Town and Rural) Committee

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Gene Handwerk (ex officio)

Joe Narrow

John Hazel

David Heckler

John Houck

Michele Kaufman

Wayne Kaufman

Eddie Nilsen

Lynn Rothrock

Elna Stratton

Kurt Garbe (synod staff)

Glenn Simmons (synod staff)

   

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Campus Ministry Affinity Group

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Kathy Ash-Flashner 

Peter Bredlau

Dennis Moore

Keith Rohrbach

Glenn Simmons (synod staff)

Ex officio: The Rev. Cheryl Cavalari, AiM Elizabeth Elterich, the Rev. Luther Routté, the Rev. Jack Saarela

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Candidacy

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Barbara Davis

Carol Derrer

Maritza Dolich

Robert Femovich

Dana Heckman-Beil (chaplain)

Patricia McMahon

Peter Kuritz

Susan Schellenberg  (chair)

Terry Lieb, AiM (consultant)

 

Samuel Zeiser, bishop

 

Richard Stewart) (LTSP)

Mary Gade (synod staff)

Peggy Wuertele (Region 7)

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Companion Synod Committees

United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina and Uruguay

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Jira Albers

Walt Hampton

Randele Albers

Linda Hess

Herbert Dolich (chair)

Katie Kane

Katie Lyon

Neil Smith

Kurt Garbe (synod staff)

 

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Deborah Matern Graf, AiM

Sharon Billger

Michele and Wayne Kaufman (co-chairs)

William Rohrbach

Jane Kropa (UCC)

Robert Sachs

Carl Shankweiler

Nathan Solt

 

 

Kurt Garbe (synod staff)

Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovenia

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Gary Langensiepen (chair)

Dave Ambrose

Lynn Ambrose

Mary Karol

Kevin Remaly

Marie Skrilec

Frank Podleiszek

Kurt Garbe (synod staff)

South-Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Barbara Davis

Larry Brubaker

Carl Filer

Priscilla Schlenker Kinney

Russell Haab (chair)

Charles Mohn

George Kinney

Nancy Terry

Bob Machamer

 

Edith Roberts

Kurt Garbe (synod staff)

   

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Constitution

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Sr. Gunnel Sterner

Ruth Schlegel

Barbara-Anne G. Taylor, AiM

Catherine Ziel (synod staff)

   

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Discipline

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

John Houck

Tucker Irwin

Dennis Moore

Ronald Kline

Grace Olson

Gwen Krapf, AiM

Thomas Reinsel

Sherry Lockhart

Susan Ruggles

Lloyd Wertz

Barbara Shade

 

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Interim Ministries

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Donald Billeck

Kathryn Hall

John Deisinger

 

Ray Hittinger

Vicki Reeser

Henry Wolgemuth (chair)

George Zacharda

Glenn Simmons (synod staff)

Advisors: The Revs. Glen Segond and Conrad Weiser, AiM Terry Lieb

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Outdoor Ministries

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Robert Argot

Chris Carter (secretary)

Robert Machamer

 John Greenleaf

Michael Scholtes

Peggy Gumpert

Kevin Kring (chair)

Glenn Simmons (synod staff)

Dale Stephens

   

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Outreach Working Group

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Gerald Arndt

Guy Ehler

Herbert Dolich

Brent Senseny

Debra Ernst

Amy Jahn de Torres

Douglas McKeeby (chair)

Glenn Simmons (synod staff)

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PALM (Pocono Area Leisure Ministry) Advisory Board

Clergy/Lay Rostered

Lay

Harry Laubach

Richard Bringenberg

Lynn Rothrock (chair)

Martha Harvie

Glenn Simmons (synod staff)

Ruth Major

Bill Stanukenas

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