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Veteran religion communicator selected to lead Indiana Area communications

A veteran United Methodist communicator was selected earlier this month by Bishop Woodie W. White and the Indiana Area Communications Commission to lead United Methodist communications across Indiana.

The Rev. Dr. Daniel R. Gangler has joined the Area office staff in Indianapolis as Director of Communications. For the past three years, he has worked with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as director of communication for their Church Finance Council and as managing editor of The Disciple magazine, both based in Indianapolis. To Indiana United Methodists, Gangler brings broad experience over the past 26 years as a pastor, director of communication of the Nebraska Area, editor of The Nebraska Messenger, associate editor of the Dallas-based United Methodist Reporter and as a freelance writer for the Disaster News Network, an Internet news service based in Maryland. He was ordained an Elder by the Nebraska Conference in 1978 and continues his membership with that conference.

Gangler, 56, is a native of Illinois and graduated from Illinois State University (B.S. in Ed.) in Normal and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (M.Div.) in Evanston, Ill. He also earned a Doctor of Ministry degree in Christian Social Ethics from Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo.

As a senior communicator among United Methodists nationwide, he was named Communicator of the Year by the United Methodist Association of Communicators in 1996 at Washington, D.C. He has won numerous awards for his work from UMAC. During the mid-1990s, he served as president of both UMAC and the Religion Communicators Council, an interfaith association of 600 religion communicators across North America. He presently heads a steering committee hosting the 2003 RCC Convention April 24-25 in Indianapolis. He also works with United Methodist Communications in Nashville, Tenn., on an Internet orientation program scheduled to begin in May for new conference/area directors of communication.

Even though he says he has enjoyed the three years he has worked with Disciples, he counts it a privilege to serve United Methodists once again. Over the years he has worked with both Indiana communicators James Steele and Lynne DeMichele as fellow officers of UMAC.

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