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Office of the Secretary > The Rev. Lowell G. Almen
 Secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America
The Rev. Lowell G.
Almen is the secretary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He
was elected to a four-year term by the ELCA Constituting Convention in
1987 and has been re-elected and continues to hold that office today.
Almen previously served as editor of The Lutheran Standard, the official
publication of the American Lutheran Church. Almen is a 1967 graduate of
Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a master of
divinity degree. He received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and
history-political science in 1963 from Concordia College in Moorhead,
Minnesota. He was ordained in 1967.
He has previously served as an associate
campus pastor and director of communications for Concordia College,
Moorhead. He provided pastoral assistance at Trinity Lutheran Church in
Moorhead and served as pastor of St. Peter's (now Peace) Lutheran Church
in Dresser, Wisconsin.
Almen was a delegate to the Eighth Assembly of
the World Council of Churches in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1998; and in 1990
he was a delegate to the Eighth Assembly of the Lutheran World
Federation. He has visited Geneva, Rome, Canterbury, and Istanbul for
ecumenical conversations. He is a member of the tenth round of the U.S.
Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue and was the first the chair of the
Lutheran-Reformed Coordinating Committee for the implementation of the
Formula of Agreement between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Reformed Church in America, and the United
Church of Christ.
He has traveled to various parts of the world,
including Somalia, Namibia, Madagascar, Cameroon and Ethiopia to report
on hunger relief and global mission activities with partner churches.
He is the author of One Great Cloud of
Witnesses, 1997, and Old songs for a New Journey, 1990, both published
by Augsburg Fortress Publishers.
Pastor Lowell G. Almen is married to Sally
Clark Almen. They have two adult children and two grandchildren. |
