Service, collaboration central in reorganization set for Church Center
Presiding Bishop, colleagues outline recommendations; plan includes satellite offices
06-September-2007

Raising levels of service to dioceses, congregations, and individuals – ‘equipping people to use their gifts’ - is at the heart of recommendations to reorganize work based at the Episcopal Church Center, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in a September 5 presentation to staff.

The goal ‘is to use the gifts and skills of the staff for the good of the whole Church,’ she noted, inviting participants in the staff-wide assembly to contemplate in new ways what it means to take on the ‘role of servant leaders’ for the Episcopal Church, formed of 110 dioceses configured in some 16 nations and territories.

‘This is about being the body of Christ,’ Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori added, underscoring that healthy bodies are capable of demonstrating flexibility, adaptability, and ‘building new connections.’ Every member of Christ's body is valued and essential, she said.

The Presiding Bishop said the reorganization would facilitate ‘excellence in management,’ encourage ‘churchwide thinking in all mission programs,’ and be ‘responsive and supportive of those who lead ministries.’ She emphasized that the reorganization ‘is not about budget cutting’ but about establishing the best possible deployment of personnel; ‘it is about effectiveness and servant leadership.’
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