On June 9, 2001, the Lower Susquehanna Synod Assembly elected the Rev. Carol S. Hendrix as its second bishop, to serve a six-year term beginning September 1, 2001.

Hendrix currently serves on the steering committee for the Lutheran/Episcopal Beginning Ministry Together Project. Prior to her election, she served on the personnel committee of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and on the ELCA Committee on Discipline. She was the preacher for the 1997 ELCA Churchwide Assembly Service of Healing and the chaplain for the ELCA Church Council retreat in 2000.

As the spiritual and administrative head of the fourth largest synod in the ELCA, Hendrix is bishop to 270 congregations, 480 clergy and professional lay leaders, and 132,000 members. The synod covers Adams, Fulton, Franklin, Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, Lebanon, Lancaster, and York counties and is one of 65 synods in the ELCA.

Sherman Hicks, served as mission director for the ELCA Delaware-Maryland Synod, Baltimore, and ELCA Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod. He was senior pastor at First Trinity Lutheran Church, Washington, D.C., from 1995 to 2003; bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan Chicago Synod from 1988 to 1995; associate executive director of the former ELCA Division for Outreach and ELCA director of mission support from 1987 to 1988; and assistant to the bishop of the Illinois Synod of the former Lutheran Church in America from 1979 to 1987. Hicks served as co-pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, East
Orange, N.J., and pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church, Buffalo, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Hicks graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and Hamma School of Theology, Springfield, Ohio.

Multicultural Ministries is a new unit in the churchwide organization. It coordinates, educates and holds accountable churchwide efforts and programs with synods, regions, institutions and agencies of the church as they identify,
develop and strengthen the multicultural dimensions of their work. The unit coordinates churchwide implementation of ethnic-specific ministry strategies and reviews and monitors all churchwide programs to maintain and enhance the ELCA's commitment to become an antiracist, multicultural church.

Information about ELCA Multicultural Ministries is available at http://www.ELCA.org/cmm .

The Rev. Dr. Paul G. Hill
Affiliated Faculty with Children, Youth, & Family Ministry Initiative
Luther Seminary

In addition to teaching at Luther, Hill is the director of mentoring for all the MA, M.Div and distributive learning students in the CYF initiative. He also leads seminars and consults with churches across the United States. He is a team leader for the national youth gathering and he is the co-author of Coming of Age: Exploring Spirituality and Identity in Young Men. "Adolescent and men's ministry is my passion," he says. "If we don't learn to connect with them, we lose all their gifts and abilities they have to offer and the world will become even more chaotic."