Title: Ives Serves Interim Position as Top ELCA Chaplain
ELCA NEWS SERVICE
January 22, 2003
IVES SERVES INTERIM POSITION AS TOP ELCA CHAPLAIN
03-009-FI/JB
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Ivan G. Ives, chaplain (Col.), U.S.
Army, Ret., was named interim assistant for federal chaplaincies of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Department for Synodical
Relations. He will direct the ELCA Office for Federal Chaplaincies in
Washington, D.C., until a successor is found for the Rev. Lloyd W.
Lyngdal, who retired Nov. 30.
The office coordinates ELCA chaplaincy programs in the U.S.
military, Veterans Affairs facilities and federal prisons. About 800
ELCA pastors serve in these programs -- 125 active duty armed forces,
185 reservists, 400 retired military, 45 with Veterans Affairs, 44 in
the Civil Air Patrol and seven with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Ives, 67, was born in Park Grove, Mont. A graduate of Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minn., he earned degrees from Luther Seminary, St.
Paul, Minn., and the Presbyterian School for Christian Education,
Richmond, Va.
Ordained in 1961, Ives was called by the former American Lutheran
Church to serve as a chaplain in the Army. He served at Fort Huachuca,
Ariz.; with the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany; the 82nd Airborne
Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Dominican Republic; the 1st
Infantry Division in Vietnam; Fort Campbell, Ky.; Fort Hamilton, N.Y.;
the 1st U.S. Army at Fort Meade, Md.; Fort Knox, Ky.; the Military
District of Washington, Washington, D.C.; the Directorate for
Administration and Management, Office of the Chief of Chaplains,
Washington, DC; and the Combined Field Army (ROK/U.S.) in Korea.
Following his retirement from the Army in 1982, Ives served as
pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Fairfax, Va. He became an interim
pastor with the former Eastern District of the American Lutheran Church
and subsequently with the ELCA Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod,
serving 11 congregations.
Ives and his wife Kathryn live in Springfield, Va. They are the
parents of four grown daughters.
LYNGDAL RETIRES
Lyngdal, 72, had served as assistant for federal chaplaincies
since Jan. 1, 1988, the date the ELCA came into existence. The ELCA
Church Council honored Lyngdal for his service to the church at its
November 2002 meeting in Chicago.
Lyngdal was born in Minneapolis. He earned a bachelor of arts
degree in 1952 from Augsburg College, Minneapolis. In 1956, he earned a
master of divinity from Luther Seminary.
Following his ordination in 1956, Lyngdal became a U.S. Air Force
chaplain, and served on active duty nearly 30 years. He was a chaplain
at Davis Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), Tucson, Ariz.; Ent AFB, Colorado
Springs, Colo., Rhein Main AFB, near Frankfurt, Germany; Plattsburgh
AFB, Plattsburgh, N.Y.; Peshawar, AFB, Peshawar, Pakistan; Goodfellow
AFB, San Angelo, Texas; Nakhon Phanom AFB, Thailand; Forbes AFB, Topeka,
Kan.; McChord AFB, Tacoma, Wash.; and Norton AFB, San Bernardino,
Calif., where Lyngdal was chief of the Chaplain Inspection Team.
He served four years as command chaplain at the U.S. Air Force
Academy, Colorado Springs, before he became chief of personnel, Manpower
and Readiness Division, Office of the Chief of Chaplains, U.S. Air Force
headquarters, Washington, D.C. Lyngdal retired from the Air Force in
October 1986.
His military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star,
Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation
Medal and the Legion of Merit. Lyngdal was promoted the rank of Colonel
in 1973.
While serving at the Air Force Academy, Lyngdal was honored by his
alma mater when Augsburg College named him a distinguished alumnus. He
and his wife, Colette, live in Woodbridge, Va.
Concordia College and Augsburg College are two of 28 ELCA colleges
and universities; Luther Seminary is one of eight ELCA seminaries.
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The Office for Federal Chaplaincies has a home page at
http://www.elca.org/sr/fedchap/ on the ELCA Web site.
For information contact:
John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask]
http://listserv.elca.org/archives/elcanews.html
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