Episcopal Press and News

List of Programs Projected for Reduction or Increase in the Next Triennium

Episcopal News Service. February 9, 1992 [94023]

• Internal resource production capability within the communications department has been eliminated as well as the art and design and interpretation offices. ($235,000)
• The sending and direct financial support of appointment missionaries will be phased out after the completion of terms or retirement of the missionaries now in service. We will work with dioceses, congregations and others interested in global mission to assist in the placement of persons in cross-cultural and overseas mission. Staff who support the appointed missionaries will be phased out. ($420,000 now plus $520,000 phased in over five years.)
• Overseas leadership and training scholarships have been eliminated. ($65,000)
• The advocacy work carried out by the Women for Social Witness Program will be assumed by the Public Policy Network. ($35,000)
• Specific geographic desk officers for overseas Anglican partners have been eliminated. ($330,000)
• All staff will assume a greater responsibility for the training and education of adult members of the church and the specific position of adult education officer will be closed and new approaches to resource development and sharing will be developed. ($120,000)
• All social action grants (awarded through the Coalition for Social Witness and Justice, the Economic Justice Implementation Committee and the Jubilee Ministry Committee) will be eliminated and the commissions related to those respective offices will be combined into one Justice Commission. ($795,000)
• Individual justice ministry programs and offices -- environmental, economic and racial justice -- will be united into one program office and the separate commissions will be united into one Justice Ministry Commission. ($85,000)
• Racial ethnic ministry commissions will be blended into one commission to support multicultural ministry development. ($35,000)
• With the elimination of the granting programs, the office of the grants administrator will be closed. ($45,000)
• Base budget support will not be provided to Episcopal Agencies and the CCMD Program in Province 8. ($218,000)
• The South Africa Partnership Program will not be funded. ($90,000)
• Emphasis for the AIDS ministry program will be shifted to support of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition and the staff office that supports that ministry will be closed. ($130,000)
• All hunger and other types of social welfare programs heretofore supported by the national church will not receive direct budgetary or programmatic support. Support is available, however, through the granting processes of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief or the United Thank Offering. ($75,000)
• Funding assistance to the historically Black Episcopal colleges has been reduced by $15 percent. ($150,000)
• Funding assistance to overseas dioceses, Anglican partners, ECIM and C-14 dioceses is reduced by 5 percent. ($200,000)
• The Washington Office and the Ecumenical Office will each be reduced by one staff officer. ($150,000)
• The Planning and Development Group will be reformulated and moved into the Service, Education and Witness Group. The position of senior executive for planning and development will be eliminated.
• The position of unit executive is eliminated. Management teams will be headed by a cluster leader with portfolio.
• The Planned Giving Office will be closed as will the Development Office. The planned giving program will be continued through the already established diocesan network. ($530,000)

The following items represent new mission and ministries opportunities that are proposed for the coming triennium. Some items include estimated expenditures for each year.

• The expanded diocesan linkage program (+ $180,000)
• The churchwide computer "Bulletin Board Service" as an electronic means of linkage (+ $350,000)
• The strengthening of the Congregational Ministry Team including the addition of another field officer whose emphasis will be on working with small and rural congregations (+ $65,000)
• The Stewardship Office and the Evangelism Coordinator will be moved into the Congregational Ministries Cluster in order to develop more orderly and unified ministry development services to dioceses and to maximize resources.
• The relocation of the Jubilee Ministry and Public Policy Network to the Washington Office to strengthen our ministries of congregational witness and advocacy.
• The heightened emphasis on ministries with children, youth and young adults.
• The heightened emphasis on ecumenical relations through the creation of a ministry cluster.
• The heightened emphasis on linkage/network coordination including global mission opportunities (+ $75,000)
• The creation of a Refugee Network Coordinator position (+ $75,000)