Tom VandenBosch appointed Development Director for Lutherans Concerned / North America
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Lutherans Concerned / North America (LC/NA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom VandenBosch to the position of full-time Development Director. Tom will work closely with the Executive Director, the Board of Directors and volunteers across the continent to ensure that LC/NA has sufficient resources to accomplish and expand its mission and ministries.

Emily Eastwood, Executive Director, LC/NA, said, "Tom will make a wonderful addition to our professional staff. We found Tom and Tom found us through networking with other Lutheran development professionals. Both Tom and I believe that the Holy Spirit was active in bringing us together for this work in this time in history. Tom brings a wealth of development experience in Lutheran circles and beyond. We are lucky to have him on our staff."

Tom VandenBosch said, "To say that my own life has been profoundly, positively impacted by the mission and ministry of LC/NA would be an understatement. I could not be more pleased at this opportunity to seek and provide essential resource for the work of LC/NA."

Tom comes to this appointment with more than twenty years' experience in the development field, having served most recently as the Development Director for the American Urological Association Foundation. Prior to that, he held development positions with Food & Friends, Interfaith Community Care in Arizona, the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, Lutheran World Relief, and the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.

A member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Association of Lutheran Development Executives, as well as being a Certified Fund-Raising Executive, Tom resided in suburban Washington, DC, where he was a member of Augustana Lutheran Church and sang in the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington. Tom will complete a move to the Twin Cities as he takes up this position.

About Lutherans Concerned / North America
Lutherans Concerned / North America works for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Lutherans in all aspects of the life of their Church and congregations. Lutherans Concerned provides a place of comfort and safety. Lutherans Concerned reaches out and teaches that Christ's message, the Gospel, is for everyone equally. Lutherans Concerned calls for the blessing of committed and covenanted same-gender relationships, and for the ordination of those called to minister.

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