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Church USA has to reorganize mission program

 

LOUISVILLE - The Presbyterian Church (USA) said this week that 75 employees at its headquarters will lose their jobs as $9.15 million in budget cuts have forced the denomination to reorganize its mission program.

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In addition, nine unfilled jobs at headquarters were being eliminated, along with 55 overseas mission positions - 40 of which were being lost either through retirements or end of assignments, the church said.

Slightly more than 500 headquarters employees were notified this week whether their jobs were cut, retained or revised as part of the restructuring within the 2.3-million member church.„This was a very grim morning”, said John Detterick, executive director of the General Assembly Council, which oversees most of the denomination’s offices and approved the budget cuts. The cutbacks reached into top management and reflected changing attitudes among rank and file Presbyterians about mission programs, Detterick said. „Presbyterians today do not want to write a check and send that money off for somebody else to make a decision on where it goes or how the mission is done”, he said. „Presbyterians more and more want to be involved.” (AP)

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