Three new general vice presidents and one new division president were elected by the delegates at the Monday morning business session.

Joining the GC as general vice presidents are Gerry D. Karst, Armando Miranda, and Ted N. C. Wilson. Lowell C. Cooper, Leo S. Ranzolin, and Calvin B. Rock were reelected. Nominated and elected individually, the six vice presidents were each voted unanimously.

Before the floor vote, General Conference president Jan Paulsen gave brief biographical profiles of Karst, Miranda, and Wilson.

Gerry D. Karst has served as president of the Middle East Union and associate secretary of the General Conference. For the past six years he has been assistant to the General Conference president.

Armando Miranda, president of the North Mexico Union, has served the church as a pastor, evangelist, departmental director, and conference president.

Ted N. C. Wilson has been a departmental director, division president (Euro-Asia Division), associate secretary of the General Conference, and for the past four years, president of the Review and Herald Publishing Association.

Paulsen expressed confidence in the talents and skills each new vice presi-dent will bring to his position.

Nine of the 12 division presidents were also elected Monday morning: Violeto F. Bocala, Southern Asia-Pacific; Luka T. Daniel, Africa-Indian Ocean; Laurie J. Evans, South Pacific; Ulrich Frikart, Euro-Africa; Israel Leito, Inter-American; Pardon Mwansa, Eastern Africa; Ruy H. Nagel, South American; D. Ronald Watts, Southern Asia; and Bertil Wiklander, Trans-European.

With the exception of Pastor Mwansa, each leader had already been serving as president of his respective division. Mwansa became associate director the Stewardship Department of the General Conference after the 1995 GC session in Utrecht. Prior to that he was president of the Zambian Union. Each division president also serves as a vice president of the General Conference and is nominated on the recommendation of a division caucus.