Title: Cooper-White Heads ELCA Synodical Relations ELCA NEWS SERVICE - NEWSBRIEF December 4, 1997 COOPER-WHITE REAPPOINTED TO LEAD SYNODICAL RELATIONS The Rev. Michael Cooper-White, 47, was re-appointed to a second four-year term as director of the Department for Synodical Relations for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at a meeting of its Church Council in Chicago Nov. 14-16. The Department for Synodical Relations provides staff services for the ELCA's Conference of Bishops, conducts the first call assignments for about 400 seminary candidates each year, and coordinates the work of churchwide units and regions in relation to the churches 65 synods. Cooper-White came to his position in 1994. He also continues to serve as an executive assistant to the presiding bishop of the ELCA. In addition to serving these two positions, Cooper-White is an advisory member to the ELCA's Division for Outreach and Division for Ministry boards, and to the steering committee of the Commission for Multicultural Ministries. Cooper-White graduated from Concordia College in 1971. Concordia is one of the 28 colleges and universities associated with the ELCA. He attended the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and the Lutheran House of Studies in Washington, D.C., and graduated in 1976. Cooper-White began his ordained ministry as a pastor at Angelica Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, from 1976 to 1981. He is the author of numerous articles, devotional and ecumenical materials. His wife, Pamela, is an Episcopal priest serving in a parish and as a pastoral counselor at Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Ill. For information contact: Ann Hafften, Director (773) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask] http://www.elca.org/co/news/current.html