Governance
2026–2030

Executive Board

Stefan Ruy Krambeck

President

Theologian and pastor at the Vila Velha Parish, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Vice-Secretary of the Synodal Council of the Espírito Santo a Belém Synod.

Dirci Bubantz

Vice President

Theologian and Chair of the Board of the Martim Lutero Charitable Institution (IBML), Southeast Synod.

Élio Scheffer

Secretary

Pastor Emeritus and subsistence agroecological farmer committed to shared and community-based practices, Center South Campaign Synod.

Laleska Viegas Cantarelli

Vice Secretary

Master’s degree in Education and Technology, specialist in Art Education, and Visual Arts undergraduate student, South Rio-Grandense Synod.

Iloiva Schmitt

Treasurer

Accounting technician with a degree in Financial Management, Treasurer of the Northeast Gaucho Synod.

Ademar Gaedke

Vice Treasurer

Social worker with a postgraduate degree in Public Social Assistance System Management. Works as a social worker in Navegantes, Santa Catarina, Brazil, and serves as an alternate member of the Synodal Council of the Vale do Itajaí Synod.

Fabiana Santos da Silveira, Full Member
Fernanda Maria Müller, Full Member
Terezinha de Jesus Pimenta, Full Member
Fábio Rogério Tesche, Alternate Member
Júlio César Pedó, Alternate Member
Leonardo Vasconcelos Cavalier Darbilly, Alternate Member

Deliberative Council

Altemir Labes

President

Theologian and General Director of the Evangelical Charitable Association of Floresta Imperial (ABEFI), Rio dos Sinos Synod.

Cristiane Echelmeier

Vice President

Pastor at the Teutônia Parish, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and trauma consultant in training in Integrative Community Therapy, Vale do Taquari Synod.

Amazon Synod

Joelma Alberto, Full Member
Célia Regina Amaral, Alternate Member

Central Brazil Synod

Jacson Timm, Full Member
Rev. Marcos Antônio Rodrigues, Alternate Member

Center South Campaign Synod

Rev. Emeritus Élio Scheffler, Full Member
Rev. Clautério Ilson Kegler, Alternate Member

South Central Santa Catarina Synod

Lilian Grosskopf Patzlaff, Full Member
Marceli Errath Westphal, Alternate Member

Espírito Santo a Belém Synod

Rev. Stefan Ruy Krambeck, Full Member
Rev. Alexander Roberto Busch, Alternate Member

Northeast Gaucho Synod

Iloiva Schmitt, Full Member
Ursula Loth, Alternate Member

Northwest Rio-Grandense Synod

Tânia Beatriz Georgi, Full Member
Ligiane Taiza Muller Fernandes, Alternate Member

North Santa Catarina Synod

Marise Engel Sacht, Full Member
Elisabeth Wackerhage Gaedke, Alternate Member

Paranapanema Synod

Rubem Almeida Mariano, Full Member
Alex Henrique Macedo, Alternate Member

Rio-Grandense Plateau Synod

Timóteo Joel Klesener, Full Member
Leonardo Daniel Steinhorst Siqueira, Alternate Member

Rio dos Sinos Synod

Altemir Labes, Full Member
Paulo Roberto Nunes, Alternate Member

Rio Paraná Synod

Idulce Ahlert, Full Member
Rev. Mariza Eckhardt Neuberger, Alternate Member

Southeast Synod

Dirci Bubantz, Full Member
Bianca Mueller Costa Cokeli, Alternate Member

South Rio-Grandense Synod

Laleska Viegas Cantarelli Vieira, Full Member
Islair Radtke, Alternate Member

Uruguay Synod

Joel Francisco Decothé Júnior, Full Member

Vale do Itajaí Synod

Ademar Gaedke, Full Member
Rubens Eduardo Schlindwein Liesenberg, Alternate Member

Vale do Taquari Synod

Cristiane Ines Echelmeier, Full Member
Plentz Wolter, Alternate Member

Ex Officio Members

Simone Engel Voigt
IECLB Diakonia Coordination

Marcos Bechert
IECLB General Secretariat

Adelino Sasse
Church Council

The Executive Board, the Deliberative Council, and the Fiscal Council are the governing bodies of FLD.

The Deliberative Council is FLD’s highest governing body. It is composed of 18 representatives, each appointed by one of the synods of the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB), in addition to three ex officio members. The Council is responsible for ensuring the fulfillment of FLD’s institutional purpose, as established in Article 2 of its Statute: to promote transformative development through the support and accompaniment of projects led by organized civil society groups, as well as through the implementation of social assistance services, projects, and programs in the fields of Indigenous rights, agroecology, and family farming.

In line with FLD’s Gender Justice Policy the governance structure is composed equally of women and men, ensuring 50% representation for each.