Mayan concludes service as mission executive

With the installation of Dr. Leonardo Neitzel as the new LCC mission executive, former Synod President Dr. Ralph Mayan concluded his work in that post on September 30. Dr. Mayan, who had served as LCC President from 1996-2008, took on the mission portfolio along with presidential duties after Dr. Leonard Harms retired in 2006. When Mayan left the Synod presidency, he was appointed for a year to serve as interim mission executive until a replacement could be found. Now after retiring—again—Dr. Mayan will serve as a “volunteer missionary” to assist the new Iglesia Luterana Sínodo de Nicaragua to grow stronger as a self-governing church.

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