Lutherans narrow bishop candidate field to three
FARGO - hundreds of Lutherans, Saturday night is too close to its decisions three nominees - Fargo two pastors, and the former bishop of South Dakota - to replace Bishop Rick Foss as their spiritual leader of the Eastern North Dakota Synod the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
On the second ballot, with seven remaining candidates, the Rev. Jeff Sandgren, Lutheran pastor of the Mount Olivet, won 164 votes, the Rev. Bill Rindy, Mayville, ND, who is a native of the First Lutheran pastor, won 124 votes.
The Rev. Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl, former bishop of the Synod ELCA’s, South Dakota, and a graduate of ET, received 78 votes. They move on the third ballot today. A total of 546 delegates laity and clergy voted on the second ballot. In descending order, the Rev. Bruce Vold, Jamestown, ND, and Red River High School graduates, the Rev. Naomi Garber, Foss assistant, the Rev. Chris Hall Anger, Hatton, ND, Grand Forks and former pastor, the Rev. Steve Wold , now in the former common Foss, Trinity Lutheran Moorhead, were eliminated in the second round of balloting. In the first ballot, the Rev. Philip Larson, Fargo, has been eliminated, and the order of the surface of the upper part of September was the same as in the second ballot.
The aid amounts to a total of approximately 600 registered delegates at the annual meeting of the conclusion that at present, there are 460 or laity, 233 communes, 101000 members of the Synod, and more than 137 are clergy. Another 100 visitors also attended the meeting.
The ELCA is the largest denomination in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. In comparison, there are about 85000 members of the Catholic Diocese of Fargo, which covers roughly the same territory as the ELCA’s Eastern North Dakota Synod.
Bishop since 1992, Foss, 63, is not yet running.
Helping Saturday, things were two of the Grand Forks public life; Dave Molmen, Chief Executive Officer of Altru Health System, is Synod treasurer. Howard Swanson, the city of Grand Forks, a lawyer, is to reassure parliamentarians very fitting. “I have not heard about it and say what every day,” said an office employee of the Synod Swanson.
The real work of the Lord was quiet, off-camera, by Pat Jacobsen, director of the concession Fargo Civic Center: Saturday 4:30 pm, it had provided 31100-polls cup of coffee - only nine of them decaffeinated - Delegates . “And we still have until dinner,” she says.
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