Casas Global Outreach

Yearly Update Reporting on Calendar Year 2008

 

Dear Casas Worker,

 

The people of Casas are excited to hear how your year has gone.  It is a blessing to us to learn how the Father has prospered you and your work in this past year.

 

Your time is valuable to us, and we appreciate you giving us this detailed update so we can share your stories with Casas.

 

The purpose of this revised yearly update is to:

- understand your work and the concerns you are dealing with

- evaluate our effectiveness as senders to better support our global workers

- prepare our annual spending plan to ensure that the needs of our global workers are

being met

- share with the group how their investment is growing in value

- clarify the overall direction of our work

 

Your answers will help us to encourage everyone in Casas to have a role in outreach, as well as encourage ch* planting/group starting among least reached people groups.

 

Attached is the yearly update you sent us last year.  Please note that this year’s questions have been changed, so please read them carefully.

 

As you complete this form, please base your answers on your work during the 2008 calendar year.  Please return your response no later than January 10, 2009, in order that we may share and review your responses with our Global Outreach Leadership Team during our new year meeting.

 

We’re excited to hear how our Father has been working through you and to share your stories with our Casas family.

 

 

Thanks for taking the time to share with us!

 

 

 

 

 

Scott Brenden and the Casas Global Outreach Team

 

 

 

 

 

DETAILS: - this section may be omitted if sent by e-mail

Name: 

Agency:

Field of Service:

Date of Report:

 

STATUS:

Year I began full time cross-cultural service:

Please indicate which applies:

  1. I am/we are now on the field.
  2. I am/we are now on home assignment.
  3. I am/we are now raising support and plan to leave for the field by _____.
  4. Other status: 

 

HOME ASSIGNMENT:

  1. Our next home assignment will be from approximately ___ to approximately ____.
  2. In which city do you plan to live while on home assignment?
  3. What percentage of your time on home assignment do you plan to spend in Tucson?
  4. Our next visit to Tucson other than home assignment will be from approximately ___ to approximately ____

 

YOUR WORK – PURPOSE AND GOALS

1.     What dreams would you like to see come true this year?

2.     What dreams would you like to see come true in the next five years?

3.     What are your team’s measurable goals to indicate progress for the upcoming year (2008)?

4.     What is your specific contribution to help your team accomplish its purpose?

5.     What people group(s) are you serving (if more than one, please list - enter your country name at joshuaproject dot net to see a list of people groups)?

6.     Are these people groups designated as “least reached” according to joshuaproject dot net or are they less than 2% ev8nge1ical?

7.     What is the significant need you are meeting that keeps you working with this people group?

8.      How long do you see yourself in this role?

9.     In what ways does your team contribute to ch* planting\group starting?

10.  If you have a written strategy or plan specific to your work, we would love to see it.  Please forward the document with this Update or separately by the same deadline to share with us in more detail the purpose of the team you work on.

 

11. Can we share the strategy document and the answers to the previous questions with any adult classes that may have partnered with you?

 

 RESPONSE TO YOUR WORK

We understand that numbers don’t always reflect our Father’s work through you, but they are a useful tool for us.  Please answer the following as best as possible.

1.       As a result of your direct work or indirect contribution (other workers who you serve or supervise), what practical, educational, or humanitarian service has been performed with what numbers of people?

 

2.       In the previous year as a result of your direct work or indirect contribution (through the workers you supervise) how many people have

a.)  heard the story________

b.)  become followers_________

c.)  obeyed the ordinance of water_________

4.       As a result of your direct work or indirect contribution (other workers who you serve or supervise) how many groups have been formed

a.) during this past year: ___________

b.) during your time in this work: ______________

 

PERSONAL GROWTH

1        Tell us a specific story about the most amazing moment of your work during this past year.

2        Tell us about the greatest challenge you are facing right now.

3         In what ways have you grown closer to your Father in the past year?

4        Indicate some of the most important requests you are making to your Father and for which you are awaiting His answer (so we may join our requests with yours).

5        What are some interesting/unique/fun facts or a humorous story about you, your family, and your situation that you would want to share with the Casas community so they can feel more personally connected to you? (Not limited to your actual work.)

 

 

 

 

 

OUR GROUP

  1. Rate your relationship with Casas (Great, Fair, Poor)
  2. How does Casas communicate with you, you with them? (Adult class, phone calls, e-mail, web cam, etc.)
  3. How often does Casas communicate with you?
  4. How often do you initiate communicating with Casas?
  5. Would you be willing to participate in a live conversation, including adjusting your activities to the time zone here?
  6. Would you be willing to do this with a web camera? If so, do you have a Skype.com account? What is your Skype handle?
  7. How could your relationship with the people of Casas be strengthened?

 

SUPPORT

  1. What is the ideal monthly support amount your agency has set for you and which you should be receiving?
  2. What percentage of your ideal support do you receive?
  3. What prospects do you have for raising the difference between 1 and 2?
  4. Approximately how many individuals contribute to your support? _____  Of those, how many are from our group?
  5. What is the combined total amount of monthly support you receive from individuals from our group (not counting the official support from our group)?
  6. Approximately how many other groups of followers (besides our group) contribute to your support?
  7. Please describe any unanticipated and uncovered expenditures this past year.
  8.  Would it be appropriate to send a short-term team to support/work with you (7-10 days)?
  9.  Ideally, what would that team do?
  10.  What skills that short-termers from our group might possess would be most beneficial to  help your team fulfill its purpose?

 

OTHER:

1. How much time did it take you to respond to this update?

2. What else would you like us to know?

3. What questions do you have?

4. Please send a physical or electronic photo of your family (for married people) or yourself

     (for single people).

5. Please share your family’s birthdates and your anniversary with us.

 

BY SUBMITTING THIS YEARLY UPDATE AND REQUEST FOR RENEWAL OF SUPPORT, BLESSING, AND COMMlSSlONING, EITHER ELECTRONICALLY OR ON PAPER, I HEREBY:

1.  Affirm that I have re-read the current Casas Policy for Long-Term Workers (http://www.gocasas.com/policy-lt.htm) and I am willing to fulfill the Expectations of Global Workers as described there.

2.  Affirm that I have a clear leading from the Father for my particular cross-cultural assignment, I am totally committed to serve Him in this appointment.

3. Affirm that I am in accord with Casas' d0ctrinal position as expressed in the Bap F@ith and Message (http://sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp)

4. Certify that to the best of my knowledge, all of the information in this Update is true and complete.

5. Release Casas from liability resulting from the result of any project I am part of.

6. Agree to consult with Casas Global Outreach staff before making major changes in my work assignment

7. Agree to furnish a personal newsletter at least quarterly to the Casas Global Outreach staff unless other arrangements are made.

8. Agree to adjust my schedule to joyfully communicate with Casas people who may choose to relate to me.

 

 

 

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Please return by January 10, 2009 to Casas Global Outreach, 10801 N. La Cholla Blvd., Tucson, AZ  85742 outreach@casaschurch.org (520) 878-1116 . A web version is available at:  http://www.gocasas.com/policy-yearlyupdate.htm