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In 2006 Diocesan Executive Council (DEC) adopted a new six-comission diocesan structure designed to maximize mission effectiveness and emphasize grass-roots involvement, recognizing, as Bishop Henderson put it in his October 2005 address to Diocesan Convention, that “the congregation is the ‘front line’ of the church; it is in this setting that lives are changed.”
The six commissions—on the Ministry of the Baptized; on Congregations; on Convocations; on the Diocese; on The Episcopal Church and National Concerns; and on The Anglican Communion and International Concerns—are policy-making groups chaired, for the most part, by members of DEC and populated by individuals from throughout the diocese. Bishop Waldo chairs the Commission on the Anglican Communion and International Concerns.
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