10.10.2005
German Theologian Dr Eva-Sibylle Vogel-Mfato Is LWF Europe Area Secretary
At its meeting in Jerusalem, the LWF Executive Committee appointed Rev. Dr Eva-Sibylle Vogel-Mfato to a four-year term as the new Area Secretary for Europe in the LWF Department for Mission and Development (DMD). She succeeds Rev. Dr Andreas Wöhle, who, effective 1 October 2005, joined the LWF German National Committee (GNC) in Stuttgart, Germany, as executive secretary and chairperson of the Committee for Church Cooperation and World Service. Vogel-Mfato, 49, assumed her new position on October 1.Vogel-Mfato was born in Celle, Germany in 1956. Following her theological studies at universities in Bethel, Tübingen and Göttingen (in Germany) and at the Ecumenical Institute Bossey in Switzerland, she did her first theological exam in 1982 in Hanover, Germany. She was ordained in 1985, after her second theological exam. From 1985 to 2000, she was a parish pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover in Nettlingen near Hildesheim. From early 2000 until mid-2005, she worked as Executive Secretary for the Solidarity Desk (Women and Inter-church Service) of the Geneva-based Conference of European Churches.
In 1994 Vogel-Mfato earned a doctorate in theology with her thesis titled, "It Is in the Whispering of a Gentle Breeze that God Shows Himself. The Missionary Church Between Claims of Absolute Truth and the Ability to be in Community."
She participated in the 1997 LWF Ninth Assembly in Hong Kong, China, as a delegate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
Vogel-Mfato is married, and has two sons. (251 words)
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