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Cuts at World Council of Churches affecting US office
Episcopal News Service
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2003-009-6
Posted: Friday, January 17, 2003
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The board of directors for the US Conference of the World Council of Churches will meet February 26-28 to discuss the implications of the recent announcement of staff and program cuts for the WCC presence in the United States.
The reduction of more than $4.5 million last November to offset a predicted shortfall in the 2003 budget has meant a cut of 16 full-time equivalent staff positions. Two US office staff positions--Philip Jenks, communications officer, and Sonia Omulepu, special projects officer--were included in the cuts. Effective June 1, the US office will be staffed by a relationships officer, a fund development officer, and a United Nations liaison staff person.
The US Conference is composed of heads and representatives of the WCC members in the USA, as well as several Orthodox churches based in other countries that have dioceses in the USA. The Rev. Kathryn Bannister, a United Methodist minister from Kansas, is moderator of the conference and one of the eight presidents of the WCC.
The board of the US office will discuss ways its member churches can relate to and support the new structure announced by the WCC last November. The WCC was reorganized along five historic themes that have been part of its mission since it was founded in 1948: faith and order; mission and ecumenical formation; justice, peace and creation; international affairs, peace and human security; and diakonia and solidarity.
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