LWR PRESIDENT SPEAKS AT STALEY

Lutheran World Relief President Kathryn F. Wolford was the featured speaker for Dana College’s annual Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar Series, March 31–April 2. The series is presented by the Dana College Religion Department and Dana College Campus Ministry.

Wolford has 20 years of experience working in undeveloped countries for Christian relief agencies. She presented several lectures falling under the topic, “From Globalization to Global Community: Doing Justice in a Smaller World — A Christian Perspective.”

“We were honored to have Ms. Wolford come to Dana to speak to our community on how our world’s problems are our problems,” said the Rev. Dr. Andrea Ng’weshemi, campus pastor and assistant professor of religion. “Ms. Wolford is an articulate and well-informed speaker. Her experience of traveling and working in foreign countries helped us understand the role of the Christian faith in bringing justice and dignity to all peoples in the world.”

Wolford has been president of Lutheran World Relief since 1993. Before joining LWR, she served as the first Caribbean regional representative of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A./Church World Service, based in the Dominican Republic. From 1983 to 1985, Wolford worked in planning and organizational relations with Social Services of the Dominican Republic, a church-based rural development organization. She is a frequent keynote speaker at national and regional church events, and was selected as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by the Baltimore Daily Record in 2002.