Prague, November 7, 2017. [CD-EUDNews. C. Cozzi]. The Women’s Ministry (WM) director of the Inter-European Region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (EUD), Denise Hochstrasser reached her retirement age and thus, will leave her place to Dagmar Dorn, newly elected WM director, at the EUD Executive Committee in Prague, November 2-6, 2018.
“I wish Dagmar many blessings and God’s guidance in her new task which she will take up in spring 2018typo3/#_msocom_1,” said Hochstrasser.
Dagmar Dorn was born in Nuernberg, Germany on 1964, and lives in Buelach, Switzerland.
She studied several subjects: Midwifery in Zurich, Switzerland; Nursing in Berlin, Germany, “Krankenhaus Waldfriede”; and English at Newbold College.
She is a midwife and Deputy Director of the obstetric ward in Buelach Hospital (a canton of Zurich).
For one year (1994), Dagmar Dorn volunteered as a midwife at “Sopas Adventist Hospital” in Papua New Guinea (PNG), South Pacific. This was an important experience that she repeated in the 2000s through several short-term trips to PNG and Ethiopia, always working as a midwife in different health institutions.
She attends the Adventist Church in Wolfswinkel, in Zurich, where she was an elder for 7 years and where she is currently a WM local leader as well as member of the WM team at the Swiss German Conference (DSV). Dagmar Dorn is not married.
"We want to thank Denise for her passionate and professional ministry during the last 7 years in the WM Department", so Corrado Cozzi, EUD Communications Director.
"God has definitely blessed this department of the Church and Denise was a faithful leader in fulfilling the mandate given to her. Thank you Denise! We hope you will live your retirement serenely with your husband. We are confident that your heart will always be with the women with whom you have shared the passion for the mission that God has entrusted us."
