CVI2’s 2005 SERVICE SUMMARY

Community Vision International’s 30 contracting visionaries pursued their passions to see needy world communities transformed.

In 22 countries via 59 projects, we directly benefited over 11,200 people and 455 organizations, and prepared over 120 service tools. Most work was done in difficult, cross-cultural, needy, neglected, struggling, underprivileged and unreached communities. Consulting via the Internet guided many more workers in more nations. Total costs amounted to $223,700.

Each year, we discover more service outcomes. The visionaries tell amazing stories, far too many to write here. In short, we see youth being shaped, strategic opportunities seized, training expanding, agencies networked and coordinated, non-profits launched, difficult places penetrated, neglected niches confronted, workers and congregations multiplying, the lost found, partners increasing, and suffering endured.

To describe last year’s activities, one visionary, who coached, mentored or trained over 2500 persons, recently wrote: “I gave workshops in so many places that it is now a blur…I did not travel to all the countries I served; I mentor people almost daily by e-mail in a broad spectrum of fields.” Our collective activities are summarized below.

Collectively, we...

• Mentored 10 needy youth, teaching vital life skills or counseling them through their issues.
• Coordinated assistance to 42 representatives of many African and Asian children affected by AIDS.
• Built some US-African school partnerships to assist 50 people in African schools.
• Mobilized 58 US and other entities to holistically transform reached and unreached communities.
• Trained 71 leaders of US Hispano-American churches.
• Trained 90 church leaders to help disenfranchised widows/children in Burundi , Rwanda and Kenya .
• Coached 97 community transformation consultants, visionaries and workers to clarify, organize and/or launch their service initiatives.
• Trained 114 candidates for short-term mission initiatives to culturally-distant peoples.
• Mentored 171 youth for character building, life meaning, reading, or to benefit the Christian Church.
• Provided missiological, organizational or other consulting to 225 career missionaries and trainees.
• Coached 262 community visionaries and workers to discern their persons, purposes and paths, and to facilitate their growth and effectiveness for community service.
• Facilitated 372 agency partners and associates via administrative and associate-enabling services.
• Superintended or provided ongoing education for 460 students in developing nations.
• Developed new service materials and tools for at least 635 strategic church and mission contacts.
• Taught or trained over 700 pastors, church workers and jungle inhabitants in Peru .
• Mentored or trained 850 students for character, life or community service.
• Trained over 1,000 village and government leaders in holistic community transformation.
• Taught 1,450 parents: men to be better fathers, single mothers to raise their sons, and family youth.
• Coached, mentored or trained 2,162 church/mission leaders to plant, multiply and revitalize churches.
• Worked to empower over 2,400 poor, disabled or disadvantaged persons.

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CVI2 serves as very low-overhead, virtual and global public-benefit network.
Enabling visionaries to transform communities using available resources and transferable technologies, skills and tools.

Community Vision International
P.O. Box 33286
Portland, OR 97292-3286
E-mail: cvi2@cvi2.org
Website: www.cvi2.org