Our ELCA Churchwide Representative attending our 2025 Assembly is Rachel Wind. Rachel serves as the Executive for Development for the ELCA Churchwide Organization. In this role, she stewards the incredible generosity that members of this church share in support of the work of the denomination. Through Mission Support sharing, congregational special projects, direct individual giving, and planned giving, members of this church are incredibly generous in their support of the work we do as church together – programs like ELCA World Hunger, Lutheran Disaster Response, Missionary Sponsorship, and much more. Rachel has been fulfilling her vocational calling to work at the intersection of faith and money for the entirety of her career, exploring that passion in secular and faith-based nonprofits alike. An alumna of St. Olaf College and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Rachel resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband, two children, and a very anxious dog named Pancake.