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World Council of Churches - News Release

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>For immediate release - 10/12/2008 12:14:20

WCC INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR TOP EXECUTIVE POSITION 

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has invited member churches
and ecumenical partners to nominate candidates for the position
of general secretary of the organization. The deadline for
applications is 28 February 2009. 

The general secretary – man or woman – is the organization's
chief executive officer and serves as a spokesperson for the
council. He or she is charged with the responsibility to
interpret and promote the strategic vision of the WCC. 

An active lay or ordained member of one of the member churches
of the WCC, the general secretary is expected to be a gifted,
skilled and experienced Christian theologian and leader with deep
spiritual discernment grounded in scripture and prayer. 

A full description of the position's role, responsibilities and
requirements has been sent to the council's member churches and
posted online on the organization's website. 

A new WCC general secretary is to be elected at the council's
Central Committee meeting to be held in Geneva, Switzerland from
26 August to 2 September 2009. At the February 2008 Central
Committee meeting a search committee was formed after the current
general secretary, Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, announced he would not
seek a second term in office. 

Nominations of potential candidates by churches and candidates'
applications must be addressed to the moderator of the search
committee, Dr Agnes Abuom. The search committee will screen
applications and short-list candidates at the beginning of April,
while interviews are expected to take place in late June. 

>For more details, please visit:
>http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=6515

Additional information:Juan Michel,+41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507
6363media@wcc-coe.org

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith,
witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical
fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings
together 349 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches
representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110
countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic
Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, from
the Methodist Church in Kenya. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.