Frank Imhoff Email & Phone Number

Elgin, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Work with all units of the church to prepare and publish official documents and policies• Work with the Managing Editor to publish the annual ELCA Yearbook• Prepare official documents for ELCA Churchwide Assemblies• Prepare, edit and publish minutes for the ELCA Church Council• Receive and respond to Synod Assembly reports of actions

Edited the campaign Web site and managed the statements and e-mail communication for State Senator Michael Noland, D, Illinois' 22nd Legislative District.

Wrote and edited news releases for the 5M member church; produced radio and video news releases; placed ELCA spokespeople in radio, television and newspaper interviews.• Met deadlines for creating 1,000 news releases, producing hundreds of audio reports and dozens of video reports.• Coordinated news coverage and media relations for several major events including the National Youth Gathering held in New Orleans for 37K participants.• Organized and maintained Web content to be friendly to reporters doing research.• Conceived and developed Radio Hotline and Internet service elca.org/audio.• Developed and implemented program to mentor church communicators in media relations.• Publicized events and convened staff team for faith, science and technology.• Key member of the multicultural ministries staff alliance; facilitated anti-racism training for 100 ELCA employees; awarded Agaliece Westbrook Miller Award, 2002.

While on sabbatical leave from the ELCA, wrote news releases for Lutheran World Information and organized its year-end index of news stories; prepared 7 newsletters for publishing and mailing.• Gathered news from churches in Africa, Asia, South America, Central America, Europe and North America in cooperation with the Geneva staff. • Laid out a series of publications for churches with approximately 68M global members.

Coordinated staff (student and professional) activities of KUWR-FM in providing news and public affairs program content for the state-wide radio station; hosted a live radio program each weekday; taught broadcast journalism classes in the university's Department for Journalism.• Produced and hosted daily 30-minute talk show with live call-in.• Hosted news conferences for state officials.• Honored as broadcaster of the month, June 1981, Wyoming Associated Press.

Served as program director for automated FM radio station, disk jockey for live AM station and news director for both stations.• Launched the FM station’s first broadcast.• Provided residents of Union Parish with live election coverage.• Awarded top contributing reporter, Louisiana Network, January 1979.

Mdiv, Practical Theology

Ba, English

Aa, Communication

degree awarded by Concordia College, Milwaukee