The Board of Emergent Village announced a new direction for the network last Thursday, which includes the decision “to streamline, decentralize, and reduce expenses by discontinuing the role of National Coordinator.”
This move comes in response to feedback from more than 2,000 friends of Emergent given in a survey sent out this past summer. Thursday’s announcement reports that “nearly everyone [survey respondents] agreed that emergent is a grass-roots relational network” and that friends of Emergent are wary of “institutionalization” – becoming “another large nonprofit religious organization building a big budget and staff.”
Jones will continue in his role of National Coordinator on a part-time basis through the end of the year and will, according the announcement, “stay actively involved as a passionate participant in this conversation and friendship.”
More to come.
