Kristi Bangert Is Executive Director, ELCA Communication Services
Ms Kristi S. Bangert is the new executive director for the Communication Services unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Bangert, 59, began her four-year term on 1 February. She joined the ELCA Communication Services unit in 1997, and was director for marketing, public relations and planning. She had served as the unit's interim executive director since November 2005. In her new role, she succeeds Rev. Eric C. Shafer, who concluded his service with the churchwide organization last November, and has accepted a call to serve as senior pastor, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
Born in Minneapolis, Bangert earned a bachelor's degree from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota in 1967. She was director of development and public relations, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Valparaiso, Indiana, 1994-1997. From 1988 until 1994, she was associate vice-president, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) Foundation.
Bangert is an active member of the American Marketing Association and was a longtime member of the Association of Lutheran Development Executives (ALDE). She served on the ALDE board of directors and was president of the ALDE’s Chicago chapter, 1990-1992.
Bangert and her husband, Rev. Mark P. Bangert, have five grown children. (202 words)
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