Ralston Deffenbaugh, President, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services greeted the Assembly and "dared [them] to be welcoming" to immigrants and refugees.
Beth Lewis, president and CEO, Augsburg Fortress, presented her "Top 10" reasons for purchasing from the "publishing ministry" of the ELCA.
Jill Schumann, executive director, Lutheran Services in America (LSA), selected by the Nonprofit Times as one of the fifty most powerful and influential people in the non-profit world. She announced the first annual Trading Graces, an on-line auction to benefit Lutheran Social Services ministries, that will take place February 26 March 8, 2006.
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