Purpose and Guiding Principles
GO Team Vision Statement:
Our vision is to wisely and effectively support outreach activities with the ultimate purpose of establishing and strengthening the Church of Jesus Christ at home and around the world.
GO Team:
- Tim Van Akker
- Paul Welle
- Merlie McGee
- Shirley Joyce
- Mark and Beulah Bowers
Ad hoc members: Spencer and Byron
GO Team Goals:
- To define and implement a vision for global outreach
- To develop and adhere to a set of guiding principles the will be used to evaluate and support outreach opportunities
- To develop an annual budget that reflects the vision and guiding principles including:
- the consolidation of financial support such that a few high priority projects receive significant, effective funding in lieu of supporting many projects with small amounts of funding
- increasing the GO budget as a percentage of the total church budget
- increasing transparency and accountability
- To identify outreach opportunities and make them known to the FCC family
- To raise the awareness within the FCC family concerning needs, effective ways to meet needs and suggestions concerning wise giving in the area of outreach
- To provide appropriate training and education for those called to serve in a global outreach project
- To provide opportunities for those who have served to share their stories with the church family
GO Team Guiding Principles:
We seek to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of people through effective outreach activities
We seek unity in every decision that is made through prayerful deliberation of the information available to us
As we minister to the poor, the sick, the hungry, the orphan, the widow and the outcast in this world we seek to incorporate the following guidelines:
RAISE
Relationship - We will minister in the context of real relationships with individuals, teams or organizations that are known to us.
Accountability - We will minister through and support agencies and organizations with a proven record of fiscal accountability.
Indigenous Sustainability - We will minister in ways that will have a long term, positive impact whereby locals lead and support their own work in ways that are not dependent upon continual outside support.
Equity - We will minister in ways that will foster equity among people in a given culture (for example: we will not support a pastor in ways that elevates him above his congregation).
Selection of Outreach Ministries for Support
Budget Development Process:
- Ask each prospective ministry that is seeking support to complete a questionnaire detailing how their ministry addresses the RAISE principles.
- As a team, evaluate the responses and, with prayerful consideration develop a preliminary GO budget
- Present this GO budget to the Board for discussion and inclusion into the overall FCC budget
- Present the FCC budget to the church family for consideration and approval by the membership
Budget Organization:
The GO budget will be divided into 2 parts:
Core Budget
This part contains all of the ministries selected by the team and approved by the church family that will be funded by the General Fund such as support for the Weeks or support for BGCC.
Special Projects Budget
This part contains individual projects that will be funded by special offerings such as fund raising for the Dominican Republic short term mission team.
Local Outreach:
Global Outreach:
- Ministry of Mercy Orphanage in Nigeria – Pastor Daniel Edeh – http://www.ministryofmercy.org
- HCJB Global in Ecuador – Brent & Shelley Weeks
- House Upon a Rock Ministries in the Dominican Republic and Haiti – Paul & Sharyn Branson
Special Outreach Projects:
- Christmas Eve special offering in support of cholera relief in Haiti
- Outreach trip to the Dominican Republic – July 2011
Praying for Outreach
Under Development
Global Outreach News
| Core Budget |
Base |
Goal |
| British Columbia Baptist Conference |
$10,000 |
$11,800 |
| Baptist General Conference of Canada |
$2,000 |
$8,800 |
| Canadian Baptist Seminary |
$2,000 |
$4,000 |
| Westshore Community Church (church plant) |
$10,000 |
$11,600 |
| Brent and Shelley Weeks (Ecuador) |
$1,000 |
$2,000 |
| Marko Fassee (First Nations) |
$3,000 |
$3,000 |
| House Upon A Rock Ministries (Dominican Republic) |
$3,000 |
$8,000 |
| Ministry of Mercy (Nigeria) |
3,000 |
3,000 |
| Short-term mission trips (other than Dominican Republic) |
$3,000 |
$3,000 |
| Hospital chaplain |
$500 |
$1,000 |
| Camp scholarships |
$1,000 |
$1,000 |
| Total: |
$38,500 |
$57,200 |
| Special Projects Budget (estimates) |
|
| Ministry of Mercy |
$30,000 – $40,000 |
| Dominican Republic Missions |
$25,000 |
| Center Church Project Vietnam |
$10,000 |
| Total Special Projects: |
$65,000 – $75,000 |
