CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The 450 or so employees of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) will find themselves about 100 co-workers short as they make the move from Minneapolis, Minn., to Charlotte, N.C.
The ministry’s downsizing is the result of outsourcing and a simple reevaluation of job descriptions performed prior to the move, according to Texas Reardon, manager of the Charlotte transition office, where already some 150 Graham employees are at work in temporary offices.
BGEA announced its plans to move to Graham’s boyhood hometown nearly two years ago and broke ground on the Billy Graham Center for World Evangelism in October 2002. The main building — 232,000 square feet — will be accompanied by a 50,000 square foot Billy Graham Library for Graham’s memorabilia and personal papers. The facility will sit on a 63-acre site near Billy Graham Parkway.
He said, despite the outsourcing of some mail functions, fewer than 100 jobs were cut, and no one who wanted to move got left behind. Reardon also did not expect layoffs or cutbacks in the nonprofit’s services or programs.
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