First Officers of Newly
Formed ELCA
 The first officers of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America: The Rev. Lowell G. Almen, secretary, the
Rev. Herbert W. Chilstrom, bishop and Christine Grumm, vice president.
This photo appeared on the cover of The Lutheran, May 20, 1987. Prior to
the ELCA merger, Christine Grumm had served as a member of the merger
Commission for a New Lutheran Church for the Association of Evangelical
Lutheran Churches and was on the board of directors for the AELC. As
Grumm left office in 1991, she took a new position as Deputy General
Secretary, with the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Grumm has been involved in non-profit,
philanthropic work and church work for her entire career. From 1981-1991
she was Executive Director for Education Program Associates (EPA), Inc.,
in Campbell, California, Executive Director of the Chicago Foundation
For Women and more recently, Executive Director of the Women's Funding
Network, San Francisco.
Christine Grumm was succeeded as Vice
President by two other women, Kathleen Magnus, 1991-1997 and Addie
Butler, 1997-2003. In 2003, Carlos Pena, became the first Hispanic
person to serve as an officer of the ELCA, as Vice President. |
