Candidates for Church Council

The list of candidates for the BIC church council is ready.

The current council (names with country of origin):

• Hee-Chan Seo, Korea (chair)
• Gunnlaug Bøyum, Norway, (vice chair)
• Brenda Robertson, Scotland, (secretary
• Ellen Eliassen, Norway, (treasurer)
• Mona Joksch Berg, Norway
• Sumihar Silalahi, Indonesia (left Bergen summer of 2005)

The candidates

The Annual General Meeting on 26 February will elect three members for a two year period. The candidates are:

• Ellen Eliassen (70). Ellen is the current treasurer of BIC. She has been on the council since 2003. She is born in Bergen and has spent most of her adult life in Cameroun as a missionary for the Norwegian Missionary Society.

• Gunnlaug Bøyum (60). Gunnlaug is the current vice chair of BIC, and has also been on the council since 2004. She is from Bergen and has spent many years as missionary in Japan. Currently she works as a teacher. Gunnlaug sometimes plays the piano in the worship services. (Sorry, no picture of her.)

• Gerald Kagambirwe is from Uganda. He is married and a student of public administration. Gerald is also in the board of Fantoft Christian Fellowship. He has recently returned from field research.

• Ronald Semyalo is also from Uganda. He is married and studies marine biology. Currently he is in his home country for field research, but plans to join us again in June.

• Bocong Sun, (20), usually called Bo, is from Beijing in China. He is an active member of our church and of the Chinese Christian fellowship in Bergen. Bo is a high-school student.

Please pray about this and give your vote on Sunday after the service at 17.00.

Pastor Geir