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GBOD Governing Board Elects Officers for Next Four Years

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Bishop Charlene P. Kammerer, president, GBOD Board

The new officers elected to lead the board's work over the next four years include: Virginia Bishop Charlene P. Kammerer, president; newly elected Bishop of the Denver Episcopal Area, the Rev. Elaine Stanovsky, vice president; district superintendent from North Indiana, the Rev. Frank Beard, secretary; and GBOD's chief administrative officer/treasurer, the Rev. Charles Carnahan, treasurer.

Charles R. Carnahan, treasurer

The board is composed of 58 members from the five jurisdictions and from the central conferences outside the United States, plus one liaison representative from the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico, and one member without vote from among the member churches of Churches Uniting in Christ.

"We are delivering the needed resources, learning systems, and interactive networks that spring to life in response to the heartbeat and cry of the church and world," said the Rev. Karen Greenwaldt, CEO of GBOD, during her annual address to the board.

"This Wesleyan and Methodist movement always has responded to the call of God and has taken the gospel and mission of Christ to the people wherever they are. This movement is not a movement of the past. It is a movement of today," she said.

The Rev. Karen Greenwaldt delivers the General Secretary's Report.

Greenwaldt, acknowledging that it is very tempting to be overwhelmed, paraphrased Mordecai's message in Esther 4:14, "For such a time as this, together with God's grace, we, as the church, can:

• build new places for new people;
• renew existing congregations;
• build sustainable resourcing systems for leaders desperately seeking spiritual formation and leadership materials for churches and their personal faith journeys;
• create networks for young people who move out across the world to bring hope, relief and belief to millions of other young people; and
• provide the best teaching and learning resources for people to find meaning for life and living."

Bishop Charlene P. Kammerer, president, GBOD, and the Rev. Frank Beard, secretary

In addition to electing officers and participating in orientation sessions, members of the Board's divisions and standing committees also organized, elected their leaders, and began their work for the next quadrennium.

The General Board of Discipleship's mission is to support annual conference and local church leaders for their task of equipping world-changing disciples. An agency of The United Methodist Church, GBOD (www.gbod.org) is located at 1908 Grand Ave. in Nashville, Tenn. For more information, call the Media Relations Office toll free at 877-899-2780, ext. 7017.