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- ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton shares the Presiding Bishop Cross with a young woman who hopes to become the next female presiding bishop.
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- Ninth Triennial Convention Maxine Amos, a delegate from the ELCA North Carolina Synod, listens to the results of the third ballot for president.
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- Jennifer Michael, Women of the ELCA outgoing executive board president, greets delegates Melissa Holden, left, and Mary Ann Patterson, right.
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- Ninth Triennial Convention The new president of Women of the ELCA, here with her husband, Hilton, and granddaughter Savannah, is Patti Austin of Decatur, Ga.
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- Jennifer Michael, outgoing Women of the ELCA executive board president, calls the Ninth Triennial Convention to order.
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- Delegates used electronic voting devices to cast votes.
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- Women stand and pray at the opening worship of the Ninth Triennial Gathering. More than 2,400 women gathered from across the country.
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- The new Women of the ELCA executive board will serve from 2014 to 2017.
The Ninth Triennial Convention of Women of the ELCA took place July 22-24, 2014, at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C. More than 360 delegates at the convention considered memorials from synodical women’s organizations and recommendations from the organization’s executive board to further the group’s mission and ministry. The convention preceded the organization’s Ninth Triennial Gathering, July 24-27, during which more than 2,400 women from across this church gathered under the theme “of many generations.”