Global Community Partners: GCP Update: Back on Track?

Monday, October 26, 2009

GCP Update: Back on Track?

Just a short post to let you know that I'm still out here and trying to get back on track with things for GCP. School has been hectic and I'm positive I'd lose my head if it weren't attached to my shoulders by way of my neck. Yup, my extended way of saying I feel like a chicken with its head cut off.

We have had some changes with our webhosting and so things should be better now; it was down for a little while. We also have a webmaster, Bashir Gemayel, who has so graciously volunteered his time and efforts to the design and maintenance of our website. So we welcome him to our team.

We had our regular Board Meeting in August to discuss some steps going forward. I am heading back to SoCal on Christmas Day for the winter holidays. I'm looking forward to that.

For those of you who participated in the Providing Change campaign for the soccer field at Kings Victory Academy, I have some good news! They have finally been able to get the land bulldozed in prep for a soccer field!! And of course, the $500 we raised contributed to that soccer field! So thank you very very much!! (Thanks Megan!)

I personally have started work on my dissertation proposal which is occupying a lot of my time. So much reading to do! For the moment it feels like GCP is a bit stalled but we'll have to just maintain status quo until we figure out what the next steps would be to move forward. God-willing I will be heading to Malawi next September to start my dissertation research and perhaps also begin the first stages of our next project.

In the meantime, I still would appreciate your prayers for doors to open for our next projects. And please continue to collect any loose change; all proceeds will continue to go to a specific need in a community in Malawi.

Thanks for all your support and prayers!

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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.