ALC’s new Board of Directors elected

QUITO, Ecuador, November 17, 2006

Brazilian pastor and communications professional, Nilton Giese, was elected as President, replacing Pastor Joao Arthur Taxi Heathrow Airport Miller Da Silva, who held the position for four years. Pastor Roberto Jordan, President of the Argentine Reformed Church, was elected Vice-President. Pastor Daniel Favaro of the Argentine Methodist Church was elected Secretary, and Betty Herrera, an Ecuadorian accountant, continues as Treasurer. The new board also has as members, Pastor Clovis Lindner of Lutherans United in Communication (LUC), and Pastor Germán Zijlstra of the Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches of Latin America (AIPRAL). 

Giese expressed his gratitude to God for the 11 years of the work and service of ALC, and his satisfaction with the assembly which was atended by representatives from each of the member organizations, as well as from cooperating organizations. He said that, “In this new stage, ALC consolidates itself as the only Latin American agency that offers a strategic collaboration through information, analysis and reflection, as part of the process of the reprogramming of the ecumenical movement,”

ALC is an initiative of Lutherans United in Communication (LUC), the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI), the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC-Latin American Region), the Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches of Latin America and the Caribbean (CIEMAL), the Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches of Latin America (AIPRAL) and the Advisory and Service Ecumenical Regional Center (CREAS), which was incorporated as a member of the ALC consortium at the assembly.