GREEN LAKE, Wis. — Gary B. Walter was elected the ninth president of the Chicago-based Evangelical Covenant Church June 25 at the denomination’s annual meeting in Green Lake, Wis.
A 27-member search committee had nominated Walter to succeed retiring president Glenn Palmberg. Walter will start his four-year term Sept. 1.
Walter, 53, had previously served as the executive minister of the denomination’s church growth and evangelism department, where he oversaw a growth rate of about 56 percent through new church plants and other initiatives.
Walter outlined three priorities, including evangelism, compassion and justice ministries and church unity.
Walter has also been pastor of Covenant churches in Washington, California and Illinois. The moderate evangelical denomination counts about 115,000 U.S. members and was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1885.
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