WM Staff

 

Ruth Y. Hill serves as Executive Minister of Women Ministries.  She was elected in June 1999. Ruth originates from Bellingham, Washington, and graduated from Seattle Pacific University with post graduate studies at the University of Washington and North Park Theological Seminary. She and her husband, Brad, served as Covenant missionaries to Congo for nineteen years. Her immediate family includes two daughters, their husbands, two grandsons and two granddaughters.

 

 

 

Marcia Friedman serves as Administrative Assistant in the Department of Women Ministries, having relocated to Chicago  from Jamestown, New York, in January 2006 where she served for 12 years as the Administrative Assistant at Zion Covenant Church. She has three grown children. She is married to Stan who is also employed by the ECC as the News Desk reporter.

Elected Leaders

The Leadership Team of Women Ministries, representing the diversity of the Covenant ethnically and geographically, as well as both lay and clergy, is comprised of 12 members elected by delegates to the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church, and conference leaders as advisors. In addition, the president of the ECC, the executive minister of WM and a liaison from the ECC Executive Board serve as ex-officio members.

The elected members serve for a five-year term.

The Executive Committee of the Leadership Team is determined from among the elected members.

Current members of the Executive Committee are:

Chair: Kathie Norman 

Vice-Chair: TBD

Secretary: Sue Ormond

Treasurer:  Regina Williams 

 

Current Women Ministries Leadership Team

Anita Carey, Miami, FL - Southeast Conference

Sally Chall, Jamestown, NY - Great Lakes Conference

Luanne Clark, Beaverton, OR - North Pacific Conference

Cathleen Johnson, Des Moines, WA - North Pacific Conference

Gretchen Johnson, Langley, BC - Canada Conference

Lesvia Leiva, Elk Grove, CA - Pacific Southwest Conference

Tina Martinez, Monument, CO - Midwest Conference

Bobbie Morgan, Stratford, CT - East Coast Conference

Kathie Norman, Modesto, CA - Pacific Southwest Conference~WM Board Chair

Sue Ormond, Northville, MI - Great Lakes Conference~WM Board Secretary

Rochelle Rasheed, DeSoto, TX - Midsouth Conference

Regina Williams, Chicago, IL - Central Conference~WM Board Treasurer

Ex-Officio Board Members

Carla Thelander, ECC Executive Board Liaison

Ruth Hill, Executive Minister of Women Ministries

Gary Walter, ECC President 

Advisory Leaders

The Leadership Team of Women Ministries, representing the diversity of the Covenant ethnically and geographically, as well as both lay and clergy, is comprised of 12 members elected by delegates to the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church, and conference leaders as advisors.

The current leader of a conference's Women Ministries Leadership Team serves as that conference's advisor to the denominational Leadership Team. All conference directors of Women Ministries serve as advisors as well.

Advisors have voice on the denominational Leadership Team. They elect amongst themselves one advisor who has both voice and vote.

The current President of the Advisors is Meagan Gillan. 

Current Presidents/Chairs/Coordinators

• Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska: Rosemary Otton, Koyuk, AK. 

• Canada: Korleen Stapleton, Creston, BC and Pattie Peterson,   

• Central: Candi Tepke, Chicago, IL.

• East Coast: Susan Falcetta, Manchester, CT; Emily Montfort,  & Karen Grant, . 

• Great Lakes: Barbara Houwer, Roulette, PA. 

• Midwest: Nancy Lubinski, Loveland, CO. 

• North Pacific: Lenore Three Stars, Lake Stevens, WA. 

• Northwest: Heidi Broberg, Willmar, MN. 

• Pacific Southwest: Meagan Gillan, Tucson, AZ.
  

• Southeast: Beverly Johnson, Mound Bayou, MS.

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