"One Door" opens onto all kinds of
work opportunities in the PC(USA)
You can now do a PC(USA) job search including mission and volunteer
opportunities in US and world-wide
Web site offers job seekers new search portal
[9-21-04]
by Evan Silverstein,
Presbyterian News
Service
LOUISVILLE -- September 20, 2004 -- The
Presbyterian Church (USA) recently launched a new Web-based employment
referral site that adds mission and volunteer opportunities in this country
and around the world to the denomination's online search service for church
professionals.
The "One
Door" site, which became
operational in June, offers opportunities for volunteer and mission service
as well as non-clergy positions in the PC(USA)'s national offices in
Louisville.
One Door builds on the success of
the PC(USA)'s
Church Leadership Connection
(CLC), a Web-based matching and referral system founded in 1999, which
serves pastoral search committees and church professionals.
Plans are underway to fully integrate CLC
and the One Door system so those logging on will be able to enter "one door"
to service.
"According to Presbyterian theology all of
us have a calling," said the Rev. Marcia Clark Myers, the PC(USA)'s
Associate Director for Leadership and Vocation. "Whether it's being a social
worker or a minister or someone who works here at the (Presbyterian) center,
God calls us to use our gifts to serve in our life work. So by creating this
system it is our hope to live out our theology."
Users logging onto One Door --
www.pcusa.org/onedoor
-- may view descriptions of positions, submit a personal profile or refer
themselves for a wide variety of opportunities within the PC(USA).
Currently, church professionals
seeking denominational employment can view job openings over the One Door
site, but will continue to apply through the Church Leadership Connection --
http://www.pcusa.org/clc.
The One Door site, which is free of charge, is a cross-divisional effort by
various PC(USA) departments.
"I think one of the things that's exciting
about One Door is we (the church) have such a reputation for fragmentation,"
said Katherine T. (K.T.) Ockels, the PC(USA)'s coordinator for the Mission
Service Recruitment office. "I think it's really exciting for us to have a
place that shows that we are one body."
