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the required degree (a Doctorate in Education) and can relieve me of
a massive burden of day-to-day responsibilities in the college.
Thus, I will retain the office of President, and will be dealing
directly with Dr. Ward and he with those at the vice presidential
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level. (I will as well but only from time to time, as I can) • I
will devote myself almost entirely to my front-line responsilitlities
of dealing directly with the church, and doing radio, television and
writing.
For many months now, it has become known, at least among many
here at headquarters and perhaps most if not all of the area
coordinators, that I hoped to find some method by which I could
communicate evermore closely with area coordinators, senior pastors,
and the pastors of local churches as well.
In our area coordinator meetings here at headquarters in the
next few days, I will be presenting a broad outline of a whole new
formula for church growth which I will tape, and send to all pastors
of churches.
Directly relating to this, in meetings during the last few
weeks with Mr. Dart and his team in Pastoral Administration, I have
gone over the new job descriptions for area coordinators and senior
pastors. Mr. Dart came into the Pastoral Administration Department
at a time during which we were very much in need of additional
organization, stabilization, and development.
I feel he has
contributed an enormous amount to the ministry; not the least of
which was the concept of the more professional approach to the
ministry concerning career and noncareer choices, the sabbatical
program, and many other organizational innovations.
Working very closely with Mr. Dart has been a team here at
headquarters consisting of Ted Herlofson for Ministerial Services,
Ray Wright as Vice President of Financial Affairs, Art Mokarow as
Coordinator for Ministerial Development, and Dr. Robert
Kuhn
on the
systematic Theology Project and doctrine, as well as the eleven area
coordinators.
I feel that Mr. Dart has at last brought the Pastoral
Administration Department to a point where we have such a smoothly
functioning team that I can at last step in and begin to interface
more closely with the team here at headquarters as well as our area
coordinators and senior pastors in the field!
In lengthy personal talks with Mr. Dart, he and I both feel
that since his entire background since coming into God's Church has
been primarily in the academic area (he was a member of the faculty
at Bricket Wood for seven years, five of which he served as Dean of
S�udents1 was Deputy Chancellor for the Big S�ndy campus for three
years) -- that he will now enter the doctoral program at the
University of S9uthern California with the goal of obta_
ining a Ph.D.
in speech communications. Mr. Dart had requested quite sometime ago
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that he be given a sabbatical at sometime in the future. In order
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that he may pursue the doctorate at
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as rapidly as possible, he is
being granted a sabbatical commencing immediately.