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Fact Sheet
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Who?
Mission Houston is an inter-denominational ministry
that mobilizes the whole Body of Christ in geographic
neighborhoods across the city in order to change
Houston for good. We seek nothing less than the
spiritual and social transformation and revitalization of
greater Houston - each person, neighborhood, and
community.
What?
On March 5, 2007; we announced a decade long initiative
to bring transformation to the public school systems of
our city. We are calling this initiative Whole and
Healthy Children. We believe that the administration
and faculty of our schools are overwhelmed with tasks
that are beyond the scope of teaching. It is our intent
to serve the leaders of our educational systems. We
will identify the three schools in each Community
Service Area (CSA) that have a high percentage of
at-risk and economically disadvantaged children, and
in these schools we will seek to provide:
· Mentoring - we will recruit 100 mentors to mentor
100 children in each school
· Money - we will raise $10,000 from the community
to fund and support the school's academic
priorities
· Makeover - we will recruit volunteers who will
complete an annual school beautification project
including painting, landscaping, repairing
equipment, etc.
· Mobilizing Prayer - we will provide a prayer
covering for each school, its faculty and
administration, those who mentor and the children
who are being mentored.
When?
We will launch the Whole and Healthy Children
initiative at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year.
In year one, six CSAs will launch this initiative in six
schools across the city. In year two, these original six
CSAs will launch in a second school in their CSA and a
new group of six CSA teams will launch in one school
in their CSA. In year three, the original group of six will
launch the initiative in a third school, the second group
of six will launch in a second school, and a new group
of CSAs will launch. This process will continue until
every CSA has launched the initiative in the three
schools in their CSA with a high percentage of at-risk
children.
Where?
In the 2008-2009 school year we will launch the Whole
and Healthy Children initiative in five of these CSAs:
Alief/Sharpstown, Bellaire/Southwest Loop, CyFair, Missouri
City/Fresno/Arcola, and Sugarland/Stafford.
How?
The Mission Houston staff is developing relationships
with individual believers, congregations, and ministries
in order to identify and recruit volunteer teams for
each CSA. Individuals on these teams are equipped
through our leadership development process called
Faithwalking. The
volunteer leadership team:
· Establishes partnerships with the administration of
the target schools
· Recruits, trains, and deploys mentors from
congregations, ministries and the marketplace
sectors in their CSA
· Mobilizes prayer for each child and his/her mentor
and for the school administration and faculty
· Reports progress on goals to all stakeholders
Frequently Asked Questions
QOthers like Urban Alternative, Houston Area
Pastors Council, and Kids HOPE (to name a
few) are working on similar initiatives. How
does Mission Houston relate to these groups?
AWe hold a core belief that transformation comes
when we look to see what God is doing in the
city and join Him in that activity. The fact that a
growing number of ministries and local
congregations are attempting to serve the public
schools and at risk children is evidence to us that
God is calling the whole Body of Christ to this
task. We will cooperate with, encourage, and
affirm other initiatives like these.
QAre there any distinctive things about the
Mission Houston initiative?
AWe are uniting the Body of Christ to accomplish
this task. We believe that unity brings the
commanded blessing of God to a community.
We are also building a volunteer leadership team
in each community that connects mentors in the
schools to other resource groups in that same
community. These teams make it possible for
believers, congregations and ministries, who
don't have enough human resource by
themselves, to participate in the Body of Christ.
It really does take a village to raise a child.
Mentors will encounter issues and concerns in
the life of the student he/she is mentoring and
will need to turn to other care givers and
resource providers to provide assistance. The
ongoing nature of our geographically based
team approach will make these additional
needed resources readily available.
QHow can I volunteer to be a part of this
initiative?
ABy contacting the Mission Houston staff. If you are in one of
the CSAs where we will launch in school year
2008/2009, we need mentors, intercessors,
volunteer work teams, and corporate contacts.
If you are in one of the CSAs that will launch in
future years, please contact the Mission
Houston staff for additional information.
QHow is Mission Houston funded and is the
$10,000 goal for each school in this
initiative include in Mission Houston's
annual budget.
AMission Houston is funded through the
offerings of individuals and congregations in
the Greater Houston area. We are recognized
by the IRS as a 501(c)3. We have not included
the $10,000 for each school in our annual
budget. Our CSA teams will work to encourage
individuals, congregations, and corporate
sponsors to help provide these resources in
actual cash or through in-kind gifts.
Our Value Proposition
Click here for a graphic illustration of Mission Houston's Community Transformation model applied to the education sector
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