ELCA NEWS SERVICE November 16, 2004 ELCA Council Elects Board And Committee Members 04-212-MRC CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) elected Kaanaeli Mukundi of Chicago to fill a vacancy on the board of the ELCA Division for Church in Society (DCS). The Church Council is the ELCA's board of directors and serves as the legislative authority of the church between churchwide assemblies. The council met here Nov. 11-15. Assemblies are held every other year; the next is Aug. 8-14, 2005, in Orlando, Fla. The council elects clergy and lay individuals to fill unexpired terms on boards, steering committees and certain advisory committees of the ELCA. It also affirms certain positions recommended by commissions. Makundi succeeds Heather L. Feltman, who resigned from the board this past summer. Feltman now serves as director for ELCA Domestic Disaster Response and Lutheran Disaster Response -- a ministry of the ELCA and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask] http://www.elca.org/news