The Caucos of the Inter-European Division (EUD) finished today the election business. The Nominating Committee worked almost all week. After the proposal of the three officers - already voted by the General Assembly, Mario Brito, President; Barna Magyarosi, Executive Secretary; Norbert Zens, Treasurer - the delegates of the EUD proposed for the quinquennium 2015-2020 the following Department Directors:
ADRA – Joerg Fehr (until the end of the year, for retirement reasons).
Associate Treasurer: Reto Mayer
Associate Treasurer: Markus Czettl
Children’s Ministries and Children’s Sabbath School: Elsa Cozzi
Communication: Corrado Cozzi
Education and Chaplaincy: to be voted at the Year-end Executive Committee
Health Ministries: Valerie Dufour
Ministerial and Family: to be voted at the Year-end Executive Committee
Public Affairs & Religious Liberty: Liviu Olteanu
Publishing: to be voted at the Year-end Executive Committee
Sabbath School and Personal Ministries: Paolo Benini
(Service) Global Mission: Paolo Benini
Shepherdess: to be voted at the Year-end Executive Committee
(Service) Spiritual Prophecy: to be voted at the Year-end Executive Committee
Stewardship: to be voted at the Year-end Executive Committee
Trust Service and Giving: Norbert Zens
Women’s Ministries: Denise Horchtrasser
Youth Ministries: Stephan Sigg
The delegates voted at unanimity the proposal of the Nominating Committee.
The President Mario Brito concluded the Caucos affirming that 'working together and praying together is the way to create a strong team'.
Concluding, President Brito spent few words regarding the vote on Women Ordination taken yesterday on July 8. He said: “I sympathize with those who suffer due to the vote of yesterday. It is difficult when we operate with a world wide church to agree together.
Let us pray that God may help us all to really behave as His people. Let us to affirm to our sisters, that they are close to our heart, and as former president Bruno Vertallier said in the General Assembly, let us repeat “We love you!”