2. Our Mission
To facilitate partnerships among faithbased, community development, civic,
educational, skill / employment
organizations and low income individuals
or families as they transition to dignity and
family independence under God.
3. OUR VISION
The vision of Project H.O.P.E. is to coordinate efforts that lead
the faith community to the mission of mentoring families or
individuals from very low income or welfare to dignity and
successful transition toward self-reliance. This includes
supporting area efforts that strengthen mentoring as a viable
solution to empower the plans of people improving their ability
to become self-reliant. Project H.O.P.E. works with
communities to establish, coordinate, and support efforts that
empower Project H.O.P.E. mentored participants, such as
housing shelters, transitional housing, the development of
affordable housing, meeting transportations needs, and to
encourage Individual Development Accounts (IDA) and their
development of cooperative, small businesses (microenterprise), through which participants can share in the wealth
of our free-enterprise economy.
4.
Project HOPE is a Faith‑based Mentoring program.
Our mentor teams provide access to the community
and the support for your life plan for success.
We will link you with a team of your choosing.
We provide assistance and support opportunities to
our participants when requests come to us from your
mentor team.
Many of our supports are unique to the region and
available nowhere else. This promotes your God‑given
value as a person to Project HOPE and our trained
mentors.
Please check out our 6 minute KFVS-TV video.
Contact us@ 573‑651‑0551 or www.phope.net
5.
Why would any congregation want to be trained on faith-based, team mentoring?
What is the value to a congregation / social ministry outreach program?
People stepping from the pew into social ministry need:
Mentor tutor training / development tools that promote success and courage in ministry
outreach
Formats that can be customized to fit your ministry outreach programs
Training that works and has worked for years in current ongoing and proven efforts
Verification tools for assessment of need and validation of progress by participants
Contacts for ongoing support when difficult obstacles emerge or mentor application to your
ministry needs tweaking
Techniques to apply that not only prevent burnout but actually promote a deeper
commitment over time to social ministry and advocacy for justice
Techniques of successful outreach ministry development to meet gaps in area social
service
Access to people who are doing this now and can provide technical support
Ongoing training and development tools
Interconnection with others who can provide technical support and development ideas
Less than 1 hour initial training that really does move people from the pew to
ministry
It’s the interaction and relational ministry that is the key , not the training
Life’s failures and successes have provided the tools for good mentors. Mentors just need
to know how to develop a good, accountable relationship and grab the courage
to apply their hard-learned life-skills to the often overwhelming needs of people in failure.
A team approach that expands the abilities to meet those obstacles or needs!
A re-focus of social ministry on dignity and responsibility teamed with tools necessary
for successful transition to real faith fellowship growth and, eventually, contributory self-reliance.
6.
Project HOPE of Cape Girardeau, MO is a faith based
mentoring initiative serving most community faith based entities
plus other social and community development organizations in
S MO and S IL From its inception 7 years ago, PH has been
instrumental in training some 800 faith-based mentors who
work in multiple areas of social ministry facilitating life
transformation of marginalized individuals, families, single
moms, youth and others. PH asks participants to profess a
commitment to positive faith and fellowship growth along with a
promise to work their life plan to transform their lives. In
addition to the mentoring process carried on by these faithbased mentors, areas of ministry include: personal
development, financial planning, community and economic
development, job search, acquisition skills, re-entry and
recovery, furniture provision, vehicle provision and
transportation, IDA program, regional housing needs,
entrepreneurial development, micro-enterprise support and
other ministries linking people to community resources thru a
flexible, more effective holistic outreach approach. Mentoring is
aimed at filling gaps in social services through the faith
community.
7.
PH also works in the areas of providing transportation,
job support, transitional and permanent housing.
Family education that is life transforming is the focus,
teaching individuals to be responsible,
committed and becoming contributors to society,
family and the faith community. Mentors supply a
craftsman-like direction to individuals and families
(apprentices, if you will) in this process of positive
change.
The mentoring process allows faith committed
individuals to participate at all level of human potential
development, while experiencing positive life
experiences in their own lives and those with whom
they work. The partnership developed between mentor
and participants often result in longtime relationships
in a spirit of personal dignity, stewardship of God
given talents and life transformation. The end result is
often "a hand up rather then a hand out”.
8.
HOW TO “CLICK” WITH
DIFFERENT FAITHS
Faith-based directors must seriously consider
the value of each congregation.
True healing and transformation occur best
within the congregation or church of choice,
where the participant feels comfort, support,
understanding, can accept the basic faith
premises, and so will listen to what is being
said and seriously act upon mentor guidance.
Pastors, church leaders, mentors, and
participants must all be carefully guided toward
this empathy that leads to the truth.
9. Congregation Tools
Congregations must be sold on the social ministry and
allowed to blend mentoring into their outreach work.
Early support is critical in helping new mentors gain
experience and see successes.
Follow-up and re-training are crucial to success, as
most mentors will not call for help – they really believe
this is innate and they “should know how mentor
correctly”!
Many participants must be taught to “give it up” and
call. Especially in rural areas, participants believe
they should be handling their problems themselves
and they are failures, if they cannot.
10. Team Mentoring Approach
1. Administrator keeps contact
between the team,
the congregation, and
Project HOPE.
2. Primary Mentor person who develops
the best relationship
with the participant.
11.
3. Special Events
Coordinator Creative person
who works on building the
self-esteem of the entire
family using congregational
and community resources to
boost esteem and reward
successes.
4. Financial Planner Coordinates financial
planning training and
implementation of mutual
plan developed for finances
of the participant.
12.
Faith Friends Mentoring for success
LIFE PLAN FOR SUCCESS
TRANSPORTATION
FAMILY
EMPLOYMENT
EDUCATION
SPIRITUAL
SOCIAL
HEALTH
HOUSING
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