Global Community Partners: GCP Monthly Update: Not much actually

Friday, February 13, 2009

GCP Monthly Update: Not much actually

I hope this update finds you well. It seems that the first of the month comes around too quickly for my head to perceive so I've resigned to just getting an update out within the first half of the month. Am I the only who feels like there's a zillion things going on and my organizer isn't keeping me organized? Probably not. Such is life, eh?

I had been thinking about this month's update and to be quite honest, nothing came to mind that seemed to be "update" worthy. With three major research papers due at the end of the semester and lots of reading to do in between, my "writing" mind has more or less been preoccupied with school and the things we are studying.

One of my classes this semester happens to be Organizational Theory. It's very interesting because I can apply the readings to GCP, and discussions in class bring up some examples of GCP; I am finding that it is good not simply for enhancing my studies but also because it will help build a better foundation for GCP. A foundation still needs to be set for GCP, despite our being incorporated for 2 years now, and I believe this class will help a lot as I share some of the readings and ideas with the Board and other staff.

So this update contains nothing real new other than a few reminders. I just want to remind you to keep collecting your change for our Providing Change campaign. Next month I will let you know if we have set a concrete date for collection. The other thing that is on-going is our GiveMeaning Project; please take a look and see what you feel led to do, even if it's simply to spread the word to other friends of yours who might be interested in contributing. The link is:
http://www.givemeaning.com/project/communitymalawi

Finally, we always welcome donations which are tax-deductible. For those of you who donated and did not receive a statement from us, please email me and let me know. I know it's tax time; forgive me for not being on top of all of that.

And as always, keep us in your prayers.

Oh, and happy Valentine's Day. May the evidence of a greater love than what little we possess move us to do greater things for the love of man, and utmostly for the love of God.

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Our Vision

Global Community Partners’ vision is to build partnerships in developing community around children all over the world. Supporting this vision are our guiding values that are integral to our organization. All our guiding values are based upon a way of work and life as followers of Jesus. We are a Christian organization that believes in one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and believe further that Jesus lived, died, and rose again. We believe that Jesus is an integral part of our lives and in Him, we see the example of how we are to care for those around us. Our work is guided by the following principle beliefs:

Children’s Rights

- We believe that children are vitally important to the improvement of our future. As delineated in the UN Convention of Children’s Rights and other such documents, children have rights that must be valued and protected, particularly in those places where poverty and crises exist.

Child-focused Community

- We believe that his/her environment, immediate, and removed, influences every child. Therefore, focus on children must also include education of the immediate community and raising the awareness of the global community. We believe in providing tools for the immediate and global communities through education, support, and training.

Community Partnership

- We believe in partnerships, partnerships with existing communities to help build a stronger, empowered community that can in turn help empower their children. We believe in building relationships in these communities and we believe in long-term goals rather than short-term goals, or one-time trainings, meaning that we are willing to work on an on-going basis with communities to provide input, education, and training on a long-term and on-going basis. These community partnerships include governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and other entities.

Respect for Culture

- We respect the cultural diversity of the global community and therefore believe in working with each community on an individual basis to incorporate cultures and traditions in coming up with a viable way to improve community. We believe in being responsible and maintaining respect for the communities we work with, the culture, the traditions, and the environment.

Overall Principle

- We believe that people, particularly children and their families, are integral and central to our work and to that end, we commit to uphold these guiding principles in the presence of God and of each other. We believe that there is no substitute for the manner in which we think, work, and live and our commitment to these guiding values must be evident in our interaction with each other, the communities we work with, and the global community at large.
Targeted beneficiaries will ultimately be children, but beneficiaries will also include the community around these children – families, immediate and extended, as well as other adult community members. Activities that GCP will undertake include research, program development, and implementation of programs as well as monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of program.