After months of work and prayerful consideration, the Nominating Committee is bringing one candidate as a nominee for election to the Office of President of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren at the 2010 Biennial Convention. President Joel Egge has accepted the nomination extended by the Committee to stand for election for a term of four years.

The Committee also extended an invitation to fifteen other pastors and elders of the CLB to allow their names to be placed in nomination for President of our synod. Each was asked to prayerfully consider this and was allowed up to two weeks to give the Committee a decision. None of the fifteen potential candidates believed that God was calling him to serve as President of the CLB at this time. The Nominating Committee chose not to place in nomination a second person who does not feel called of God to be our next President simply to create a dual slate of candidates.

We will therefore present President Joel Egge as the single candidate for election to the Office of President of the CLB. The Council of Directors has unanimously agreed with the Nominating Committee.

- Pastor Ron Erickson on behalf of the Nominating Committee