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Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

May 5, 2005 -- Thursday Thesis: Meeting People of Purpose

Translation coordinator named to Episcopal Church Center staff

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Thomas Mansella has joined the
Episcopal
Church Center's Office of Communication in the newly created position of
Translation Services Coordinator.

Mansella, 60, is an Episcopal priest and member of the American
Translators
Association (ATA), which he has served as an administrator in the
Spanish
Language Division. Most recently, he has worked as a translator in Falls
Church, Virginia.

In his new role, Mansella will provide regular translations of news
reports,
statements and other documents into Spanish while also coordinating
translations into French and other languages as needed.

He will also arrange for simultaneous interpretation services at General
Convention, Executive Council and other related meetings.

Mansella was recommended for his new post by a collaborative panel
representing Executive Council, the Office of Hispanic Ministries,
diocesan
Latin American ministries, the Office of Communication, and the Church
Center Human Resources Office. The position was funded as a 2004 action
of
Executive Council.

"All of us at the Episcopal Church Center are delighted to welcome
Thomas
Mansella to his new and much-needed ministry," said Robert Williams, the
Episcopal Church's director of communication. "The Episcopal Church will
be
well served by Thomas's proven expertise, his generous spirit, and his
passion for Spanish-language ministry development."

Set to begin his new work May 19, Mansella will help shape the Episcopal
Church's emerging Spanish-language website, www.iglesiaepiscopal.org,
set to
debut later this year, Williams said.

Prior to joining the Episcopal Church Center Office of Communication,
Mansella served as translation specialist in the Arlington [Virginia]
Public
Schools district where he produced official translations for the
superintendent, school board and senior staff, introduced and managed a
translation memory software and language database and offered

"I'm very excited," said Mansella. "This is a wonderful opportunity to
serve
our church, the members and the wider Anglican community. I'm very happy
that the Episcopal Church is responding to the needs of our global
society
and global church. "

He has been the translator for the Virginia Episcopalian for more that
10
years and has been coordinating translation and interpretation services
for
the General Convention office for the past year.

"I see this as an important ministry of the church." he said. "I became
involved in translation services mostly out of pastoral needs of the
church.
Evangelism is communication and to be able to evangelize we need to
communicate in a way that people can hear and understand."

Mansella was trained at the Diocesan Priesthood Program in Argentina and
Paraguay and attended seminary at Buenos Aires International Bible
Institute. He was ordained in Paraguay in 1976. He came to America in
1987
as Hispanic diocesan missioner for the Diocese of Virginia.

He also brings extensive technological skills in operating systems,
Translation Memory Management, Language Processing, Web design,
E-Commerce,
Networking, Information Security.

He is the assisting priest at Grace Episcopal Church, in Alexandria,
Virginia and was missioner and founding vicar of La Iglesia de Cristo
Rey in
Arlington, Virginia.

He is married to Elizabeth, an educator for more than 20 years, and they
have three grown children.

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