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VOL. 54, NO. 12 The WITNESS JUNE 26, 1969 FOR CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH Editorial and Publication Office, Eaton Road, Tunkhammoek, Pa. 18657 Story of the Week In proposing increased au- Clergy Deployment Office Will thority to the bishop both in his authority to nominate and re- publication. Be Proposed at Convention II locate, the commission has designed a number of safeguards and * The immediate establish- $90,365 thereafter. The commis- against arbitrary or capricious ment of a national clergy de- sion proposes that these be paid use of episcopal power, including reuse ployment office designed to through an increased General for provision for elected appeal and house a modern "data bank" Convention assessment amount- where up-to-date personnel rec- review boards in each diocese. ing to $9.51 per active clergy- The commission is also urging ords on all clergy can be main- man. required tained will be proposed for the both national and diocesan pro- In addition to launching the grams of continuing education Episcopal Church when the joint C.D.O., bishops, deputies and commission on the deployment special delegates at Notre Dame to retrain clergymen for more Permission of the clergy reports to the spe- will be asked to study and de- effective service in their present cial General Convention at bate the full deployment model posts. Specific proposals for South Bend in August. Setting which the commission has "continuing education" are ex- DFMS. / up such an office would be the drafted. Among other things pected to come forth soon from first step in a multi-phased the model proposes placing in the board for theological educa- overhaul in the way the church Church the hands of diocesan authority tion. deploys its professional leader- the responsibility to nominate The twenty page commission ship. The plan would be com- clergymen for vacant posts after report opens with a description plete by the Jacksonville Con- written "position descriptions" of the serious state of present Episcopal vention of 1973. have been carefully drafted. clergy morale which has re- the The clergy deployment office, Final authority for the election sulted in part through the of a key ingredient in this new de- of men would still be retained church's present lack of system ployment system, will be gov- by the vestry or other appropri- for deployment. It reminds con- ate governing board, but a new Archives erned by an independent board vention that many clergymen selected by the General Conven- "teamwork" between them and "don't know where to turn" 2020. tion itself and would be phy- the bishop would be envisaged. when they want to move and sically housed in New York City Other new features of the de- waste futile hours in unsuccess- adjacent to the headquarters of ployment model include a re- ful job hunting; that some areas the Church Pension Fund. This quirement for annual "job per- of the nation are oversupplied Copyright location will facilitate joint use formance evaluations" in which with clergy while others have of the fund's "360 computer", the bishop and the man himself difficulty filling vacancies; that according to Bishop John H. confer; a review of job tenure bishops all have difficulty in Burt of Ohio, chairman of the after the first seven years and evaluating credentials and commission. Specific design for at five year intervals there- knowing who to nominate to the office and its operation has after; and a method for relocat- what cure; that vestries and been shaped by the Charles F.