February 23, 2012

Our Mission & Vision

Mission:

Our Mission

Equipping a globally conscious community to serve the poor and marginalized through education, advocacy and empowerment, without discrimination, demonstrating unconditional love.

Our community is being equipped to meet the challenges faced by the poor and marginalized by developing capacity in our members to act as agents of education, advocacy and empowerment.  In other words, our people are being trained to be educators, advocates and administrators.  Educators, in the holistic sense, regarding health (both physical and mental), agriculture, technology, ethics and  sociology.  Advocates to come alongside those who need a voice in those same arenas of need.  Administrators, to facilitate the development of such agencies to be self-sustaining, empowering the people to experience a healthy inter-dependence where they take care of themselves.

Vision:

We are a movement that transplants communities of global denizens, who in solidarity with the poor and marginalized embody the ethics of justice and freedom to bring about societal transformation where education and autonomy exist for all, without discrimination.  We do not value popular American ideals associated with violence, domination, neo-colonialism and the attitude that the country has favored nation status with God and is unaccountable to the voice of the global community.  Instead, as an educated community who values the preservation of life as governed by the ethical teachings of the bible, we will empower global citizens to implement the justice of God in their societies, through non-violent activity focused on education and capacity development of the poor and marginalized, as demonstrated in the life and message of Jesus of Nazareth.

The mission and vision of the Institute for Global Outreach Developments Int’l are taken from the mission and vision statements of Global Outreach Developments International. This is done because the Institute for Global Outreach Developments Int’l serves as a training arm for participants in the community of Global Outreach Developments Int’l. For more on the community click here.