Two Main Scripture
- Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 1 Peter 2:17
- The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10
The Service Philosophy
The tenants of our organization follows the scripture from both a nominal sense and literal sense. Peter in this passage of scripture is engaging the saints on their conduct in the society in which they lived. Both Peter and Paul are challenge with notion of how to behave in the status quo. Jesus teach us to be wise as serpent and harmless as dove. You can hear the sentiment especially from Peter.
Honor. Love. Fear. Honor
The idea behind this concepts as tokens it that yields itself to the idea that there is modicum of respect and decency that will make life simpler to live.
When you flip the concepts to actions then you get a different perhaps more radical picture.
Honor has to do with paying money or a certain amount of attention. Mankind was made in the image of God. Therefore for the image he was made in he is deserving of respect.
Love or agape has to do with the way in which you treat people in the faith with you and or those with whom you share comradrie with.
Fear. This has to do with placing the highest value on our behavior on what God puts the weight on. Seeking to please the Lord in our interactions behaving in a manner that is matches up with the defeence to the Lord ship of Jesus Christ. The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom.
Honor the King. This ties the whole concept together. Jesus was talking on the subject of paying taxes...to which he responded....rend unto ceasar what is ceasers. As long as we live under-authority we a responsibility to live in line with the law of the land. This make us participants and not rejects...this forces us to act and respond in the affair of our government from a local to national level and do so while keeping those other values in mind.
House of Hope will use these four value in our moderation and explanation and exploration at all times. Structures will be set in place to ensure we are speaking in deference of respect to our community members, we are acting in love to our fellowman for their benefit by acting with integrity , put the highest value on God's word and honor the governmental system under which we live.
The Issue
It is to often that we categorize life in manner that best suits our needs and our desires. The fact remains that this desire to shape and fashion the life were grant apart of the grantor is part of our sin nature, to see ourselves as apart from God. This separation known as the state of sin produces ill effect in the world in which we live or shall I say occupy relationships.
We really only three categories of relationships internal, external and eternal.
Our culture would replace eternal with existential but it still refers to reality higher than the mortal world and appeals to the metaphysical or world outside or physical perceptions. The state and act of sin produce a twisting of how we view our selves, how we view each other and this world and how we view god. Internal External Eternal.
This reality mixed with some other cultural ideas about the church as social institution has contributed to the degradation between the community and the church. All of the US are assemblies that have no connection to the community and in some case are in foreign to the world outside their door. The separation has become a divide that must be broken by making genuine connections.
The Answer
House of Hope Cleveland! The aim of this mission is rebuild local communities by providing both spiritual and natural services from within the community tailored to the needs of that community with a special focus on professional development, social awareness and educational achievement.
Our goal is to crowdfund and purchase a home within the Bedford Heights area and begin to offer services like tutoring, junior job training , youth groups, parent groups, community groups, health and wellness activities, financial wellness activities, service learning opportunities, counseling and many more based on the resources and needs within the community while at the same time using the house as an object lesson to foster an environment for community interdependence.
We want to see the local communities of Cleveland revived and functioning at high rate. The way we intend to do that is to Fill A House with God's glory and good works. While I believe this is God's desire it is the work of community that will make this successful.
The Grounding Phase
The key work to be done in this moment is to build relationships. It is the goal to fly in the face of those systems or incorrectly used systems to keep us divided as people.
1. Churches
2. Community Sources ( YMCA/FoodBank)
3. City Government
4. State Government
5. Business Owners
6. Businesses
7. Community Members ( Families, Veterans, Retirees )
We are all one people with one role and that is to posses life (zoe) life as god intended it. I believe people don't have to be saved to live better lives...I do believe people must be saved if they want to live their best lives.
This an effort that is for the people and maintained solely by the people.
The Launching Phase
We intent to incorporate on federal level as 501(C)3 organization to be able to recieve both grants, tax exemption and donation for large corporations who are looking to give tax deductible gifts.
When we are able to crowdfund enough money to buy the home we want to invite community into the formalization of House of Hope in the community by forming what I call the Table.
The Table
- A two fold function as governing body to make decisions that concern the direct of the house as well as to discuss the issue that may be affect our community at large.
- Exploration and Preparation
- The two main form to engage the table.
- Ex - Meant to flush out issues and a civil discussion in an effort to find the course of action.
- Prep - Once we have heard all the people voices we will use community planning techniques to determine how we are going to role out what we do.
- Table Constituency
- Founder
- Director of Concentration
- Community Member
- Participants
- Donors
- Advisors
The Leadership Table
- Advisor
- Founder
- Director
The Community Table
- Founder/Director
- Community Members and or Community Rep
- Participants and or Participant Rep
- Donor and or Donor Rep
Additional Roles
Rep - a rotating group optional elected role to be chosen for each meeting to amass information and represent the communities voice.
Asst Dir - Function as a part of the support team for the administrative responsibility of the director and liaison between community and volunteers.
Volunteers - Will be those people wish to support our effort in donating time toward establish objectives to carry out the mission of the House of Hope under the guides of the director.
Special Foci
Education - Support and Mentorship
- We want to inject a coaching model for those participant who wish to receive tutoring.
- We want to increase the role of the male in the educational community.
- We want to be a source to support strong teacher parent relationship.
- We want to develop relationship between the youth and elderly to teach history.
Professional Development - Exposure and Entrepreneurship
- We want to recreate the GreenWood wealth within the community.
- We want to increase exposure to hiring practices and resume building.
- We want to collaborate with business owners and business to provide on the job training and exposure opportunities.
- We want to hold seminars that connect the unemployment to education and possible employment opportunity.
- We want to create a furnace of proving to give light to those entrepreneurs who has products and services to offer where there can be feed back, and development through mentorship.
Social Awareness - Exposure and Civic Duty
- We want to increase the knowledge of the community to the political system starting with our local and ending with our national.
- We want to increase awareness to issues that plague our community through service learning opportunities.
- We want to identify community issue and engage in dialogue that will produce actions for a better community.
- We want to strengthen the connection between the city official and enforcement and the community through collaborative efforts.
- We want to establish and or maintain the tradition of history within the city submitting city days for our historical leader and public figures.
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