Overseas Relations Area Desks Established
Diocesan Press Service. November 25, 1968 [71-7]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A new feature in the reorganization of the Episcopal Church's Office for Overseas Relations will be the establishment of four "area desks," providing closer ties between the national Episcopal Church and the expanding work of the Church abroad, including the Episcopal Church and other denominations.
In an announcement today outlining the "new look" of the Episcopal Church's work overseas, the Rt. Rev. J. Brooke Mosley, Deputy for Overseas Relations, revealed his appointment of four staff members who will play key roles in the new organization.
Those appointed are: The Rev. Samuel Van Culin, secretary for Africa; the Rev. William C. Heffner, secretary for East Asia; the Rev. Robert S. Seller, secretary for South Asia, and the Rev. J. Seymour Flinn, secretary for Exchange Visitors.
The appointment of a secretary for Latin America and a secretary for Interpretation will complete the reorganization, Bishop Mosley said.
The Executive Council staff of the Episcopal Church, which maintains its headquarters in New York City at 815 Second Ave., has never before been organized on a world-wide regional basis.
Bishop Mosley said the appointments would complete the reorganization of the department which he took over September 1, 1968, succeeding the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, who is now Deputy for Program in the national Episcopal Church organization.
Others on the staff include Paul A. Tate, associate deputy to Bishop Mosley, and Miss Mildred Weatherbee, administrative assistant.