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Bishop
Rev. Dr. Lawrence R. Wohlrabe
Email: wohlrabe@cord.edu
 
Areas of Responsibility: Call Process, Candidacy, Congregational Conflict, Ministry in Daily Life, Missions/Global Mission & Ecumenism, Planned Giving, Rural Life Issues, Sexual Ethics
       

Assistant to the Bishop
Pr. Steve Peterson

Email: speterso@cord.edu

Areas of Responsibility: Focus on new and renewing ministries, including stewardship (shared staff with the ELCA churchwide), new congregation/ministry development, redevelopment/transformation of existing congregations/ministries, multi-cultural outreach, Healthy Congregations training, conflict/reconciliation ministries (including Bridge Builders), church in society (including LSS of MN and Lutheran Coalition for Public Policy in Minnesota), and ecumenical relationships (including Minnesota Council of Churches program commission).

Assistant to the Bishop
Pr. Laurie Natwick

Email: natwick@cord.edu

Areas of Responsibility: Focus on servant leaders for a missional church, including discernment of gifts for ministry, the candidacy process (including Theological Education for Emerging Ministries or TEEM), the call process, campus ministries, relationships with colleges of the ELCA,  Synodically Authorized Ministries (SAMs), support and lifelong learning for rostered leaders/spouses, professional ethics in ministry (including discipline processes, with the bishop), and women’s ministries (including WELCA).

  
 

Assistant to the Bishop

Erin Anderson

Email: eranders@cord.edu

Areas of Responsibility: Focus on discipleship in life-giving congregations, including congregational life and witness, youth and family ministries, men’s ministries, lay school of theology, the ELCA Book of Faith initiative, faith practices, outdoor ministries, world hunger, disaster response, global ministries, companion synod relationships.

   

 

Secretary to the Bishop/Administrator 148A
Shirleen WylandEmail: wyland@cord.edu  
Areas of Responsibility: Support staff to Bishop, Synod Call Committee office coordinator, 148A Compliance Administrator, Coordinate interim ministry and pulpit supply list, Transfers/Reports of Ordination/Installations/Certificates of Ordination, ELCA "Lists" notebook, Secretary to Reference and Counsel Committee, Annual Reports to the Bishop/clergy ID cards, Files on congregations and pastors, Statistician, Volunteer Coordinator Synod Assembly
  
Office Coordinator/Assembly Manager/Secretary to the Assistants
Marsha Hendrickson
Email: mhendric@cord.edu
   
Areas of Responsibility: Office manager, Maintain roster/ congregations/committee databases, Synod Assembly Manager, record keeping, Candidacy Committee support staff, Roster report to the Office of the Secretary, support to GIFTS Program.
 

Receptionist, Resource Librarian, Youth and Family Ministry Secretary
Linnae Grabner-Hegg

Email: hegg@cord.edu

 

Areas of responsibility: Office receptionist, maintain resource library, assist with youth gatherings and provide general assistance to the director of youth and family ministry.

  
  

Communications Director
Michael Stein

Email: stein@cord.edu

 

Areas of responsibility: Communications planning; Synod newsletter and other publications, Synod web site. Weekly email digest, Monthly congregational newsletter/bulletin insert.

 

  

Bookkeeper
Robert Larson

Email: rlarson@cord.edu

Areas of responsibility: Accounts payable, receivable and other areas of synod finance; Assembly registrar.

 

  

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