GOD’S WORD. EVERY CHILD.AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

VISION 2030OneHope

TO AFFECT DESTINY BY PROVIDING GOD’S ETERNAL WORD

TO ALL THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH OF THE WORLD.

OneHope MISSION STATEMENT

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Version 1.4 Executive SummaryFebruary 2011

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OneHope MISSION STATEMENT

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GOD’S WORD. EVERY CHILD.

What would the world look like if our motto were a reality?

This was the foundational question of the development of Vision 2030: an innovative strategy to take us to mission fulfillment by the year 2030, and provide the groundwork to continually reach each new generation with the gospel.

A METAPHOR FOR OUR VISION: THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

Once upon a time in America, there was no safe and reliable way to traverse our nation from coast to coast.

Then came the vision for the Transcontinental Railroad. It was the greatest engineering feat of the 19th Century, and propelled civilization west at break-neck speed. It made possible the fulfillment of the USA’s dream of “Manifest Destiny,” one nation united across a continent.

Once upon a time in our global community, there was no clear idea that following Christ’s command to preach the gospel to all the world could ever be done.

Then came the vision for the fulfillment of the Great Commission in a strategic and collaborative fashion — the idea that the Commission’s fulfillment is as inevitable as Manifest Destiny was.

The railroad model is a good one for the ministry of OneHope today. There are parallels:

• The railroad provided mass transit for the first time. By God’s grace, OneHope has already reached 714 million children and youth with innovative Scripture-engagement programs. The outreach is global in scope and proven to work with local churches and partners in every nation.

• The Transcontinental Railroad provided reliable transportation across vast wildernesses for the first time. The Word of God provides a dependable power for reaching children and youth, and our global infrastructure contributes to dependability on a worldwide scale.

OneHope

VISION 2030 EXECUTIVE SUMMARYCATALYZING A MOVEMENT THAT ENGAGES EVERY CHILD,

IN EVERY GENERATION, WITH JESUS, THROUGH HIS WORD

“NEVER DOUBT

THAT A SMALL

GROUP OF

THOUGHTFUL

COMMITTED

CITIZENS CAN

CHANGE THE

WORLD. INDEED,

IT IS THE ONLY

THING THAT

EVER HAS.”

MARGARET MEAD

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“SO MANY OF OUR DREAMS AT FIRST SEEM IMPOSSIBLE, THEN THEY SEEM IMPROBABLE, AND THEN, WHEN WE SUMMON THE WILL, THEY SOON BECOME INEVITABLE.”

ANONYMOUS

• The railroad laid the first permanent tracks across the country, letting travelers feel secure that others had gone the way they were going and would follow. The ministry of OneHope has a 20-year-plus history of reaching children and youth with God’s life-transforming Word. The churches we have helped to plant and the local outreaches we have raised up will stand strong to support the Church and missions organizations in blazing the trail to mission fulfillment.

• The Transcontinental Railroad provided for growth, not just at either end of the line, but all along the tracks. Moving resources quickly, it became a benefit in every place it touched. OneHope, likewise with God’s help, has become a blessing every place it has gone and will continue to build up local churches, partner with sister organizations, and collaborate with other ministries.

The Transcontinental Railroad, as it was being built, was called “a work of giants.” The fulfillment of the Great Commission will likewise be a work of “spiritual giants” — empowered by God and His infinite power.

We believe God has equipped us, and partners like you, for such a time as this (Esther 4:14). We move forward only by His guiding hand and in cooperation with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

SCRIPTURE ENGAGEMENT

By God’s grace, the ministry of OneHope has touched over 714 million young lives with God’s Word through our innovative Scripture engagement tools in print, film, web format and much more.

The outreach has brought many children and youth to faith in Christ, along with numerous families and adults — radically changing the face of the next generation in dozens of nations ... with one amazing mandate:

Sharing the life-transforming power of God’s Word!

Some of the Scripture tools that present the Good News of the Gospel are:• The Book of Hope. A Scripture book designed to engage and speak to the heartfelt needs

of children and youth within various cultures, clearly showing them God’s redemptive plan through Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.

• The GodMan film. It is a biblically based re-telling of the story of Christ’s life. It engages the audience in the introduction and conclusion with a live-action scenario tailored to the real-life issues many young people in various cultural audiences face each and every day.

• God’s Big Story. A Scripture engagement plan, used in conjunction with 17 Stories, that

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helps children with low Bible literacy develop a comprehensive biblical worldview. Parents or teachers use the book to tell major stories from the Scriptures, explain the redemptive plan that culminates in Christ, and provide a basic Bible foundation for primary-age children.

• 17 Stories. Originally designed to impart Scripture’s most important themes in Ghana, 17 Stories is being used for primary-aged children in many cultures. It consists of 16 individual trading cards, each with an illustration from an important Bible story on one side, and on the other side, part of a graphic illustrating the Bible’s overarching meta-narrative. Sunday school teachers and children’s ministry workers guide the children through the various stories and toward a biblical worldview and faith in Christ.

• 75 Stories. This booklet is styled to help children in club-based settings understand the important stories of the Bible and its meta-narrative. Like 17 Stories, it relies on illustrations and story-telling to impart the important truths. It is in design right now and will be launched in 2012 in Uganda.

• And dozens more in design and development.

With new programs constantly in research and development, we are seeing a living and active demonstration of God’s promise in Isaiah 55:11 (NIV) ...

“So is my word that goes out from my mouth;it will not return to me empty,but will accomplish what I desire,and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”

The Word of God has the power to connect with young minds, convict their spirits and cause them to come to a life-transforming faith in Jesus Christ.

Our main strategy for distributing God’s Word has been through teams of local believers affiliated with area churches and ministries who are able to bring children and youth, and their families, to Christ, and help establish them in churches.

The Book of Hope and The GodMan film are frequently used to establish new churches and local faith communities in areas where none existed before.

These two extraordinary tools will continue to be a part of the outreach of OneHope’s ministry worldwide ... but the Lord has also raised up an extraordinary and growing coalition of ministries, organizations, churches and individuals who are ready to take the mandate of “God’s Word. Every Child.” even further.

They understand the next presentation of God’s Word may not be a book, may not be a film, but may be a unique presentation in some alternative media, and we know it will still have the power of the Holy Spirit within, the power to transform lives!

With such tools and global cooperation of churches and believers, they recognize that the Great Commission is achievable, even in our lifetime.

With God’s guidance and blessing, Vision 2030 will help provide the means for churches and missions organizations to make that happen.

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“FAITH IS TO BELIEVE

WHAT YOU DO NOT SEE;

THE REWARD OF THIS

FAITH IS TO SEE WHAT

YOU BELIEVE.”

SAINT AUGUSTINE

THE FUNCTION OF THE PLAN

In discussing the function of Vision 2030, we must have clarity about our goals and values in order to grow. We must affirm mission fulfillment, through all of our Scripture engagement programs, which is the presentation of God’s Word in a desirable and effective way to reach every child and youth, in every generation.

To have clarity about this goal, we have developed systems which express or analyze:

• The size, demographics and worldview of our audience segments.• What constitutes “God’s Word” in various societies — whether literate,

Primary Orals, Secondary Orals, etc.• The final audience and how best to provide them with value, and help

them engage with God’s life-transforming Word.

Vision 2030 began by addressing these issues. It then became a values framework for establishing long-term objectives between now and the year 2030, which we believe will be the year for stage-one mission fulfillment — and the year to begin the ongoing mission to reach every new generation.

A VISION FOR THE FUTURE: VISION 2030

In her seminal work New Lives for Old, Margaret Mead identified the characteristics common to any transformational movement, particularly one which impacts a generation:

• The presence of a threat to the existing status quo.• A willingness to abandon common practices.• The introduction of new ideas and technologies.• The emergence of gifted leadership.

These characteristics are each evident through the ministry of OneHope and in the global mission field today, and must be advocated for throughout the worldwide Church in order for Vision 2030 to come to fruition.

Vision 2030 is built upon the sure foundation that the Great Commission’s fulfillment is inevitable and certain. Acceleration, propagation and sustainability are contingent upon a vision of catalyzing a movement that engages every child, in every generation, with Jesus, through His Word.

The vision and mission are in a positive symbiotic relationship — much like the vision of Manifest Destiny and the mission of the Transcontinental Railroad of our original metaphor. The mission and vision are beneficial and contingent to the furtherance of both.

Thus our strategy is to help foster a movement in the Church which will have the capacity to reach every child and youth, in every nation, at least every 15 years.

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THIS TRANSLATES TO THE POSSIBILITY OF PRESENTING JESUS CHRIST TO ABOUT A BILLION CHILDREN EVERY SEVEN YEARS. IT MEANS BLANKETING EACH GENERATION WITH GOD’S WORD, FROM NOW UNTIL THE LORD RETURNS

This movement must encompass a vast array of churches, partner ministries and collaborators. In this way, OneHope as a ministry becomes a means of helping move the global Church toward the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

The first step is to reach three billion more children and youth in the next 20 years. We welcome the partnership and collaboration of individual believers, churches, ministries and missions organizations.

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VISION 2030 ONEHOPE INTERNAL CAPACITY PROJECTION SUMMARY

“Internal Capacity” is OneHope’s projection for our growing reach into all of the world’s population of children and youth by country — it excludes the numbers being reached by other ministries with verifiable data on their work. (Those are incorporated into our “External Capacity” projections.)

Of course, this projection is as intentional as we can make it based on information currently available, but it could change due to various foreseeable and unforeseen factors. The projections reach all the way to the year 2030, and naturally it is in those later years that variation becomes more and more likely.

The full projection demonstrates the possible outreach, country by country, each year through 2030. The summary on this page shows possible global goals from 2010 – 2015 and then totals in five-year increments. The countries included in the full projection were selected first from the United Nations’ list of recognized countries, then other areas were added, either because we have a record of ministry activity in that country or because one of our Regional Directors asked that it be added.

INTERNAL CAPACITY PROJECTION SUMMARY FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH

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VISION 2030 ONEHOPE EXTERNAL CAPACITY PROJECTION SUMMARY

OneHope is not interested in “reaching the world” solely on our own. We’re fully cognizant that other effective outreaches are also engaging children and youth with the Gospel, and we are committed not to “re-seed” where another ministry already has a crop planted. Thus it was important for Vision 2030 that we identify where other ministries are already successfully reaching the next generation, and take their impact into account as we determined where and which children and youth OneHope still needed to reach. The outreach of these other ministries we’ve defined as “external capacity.”

We began with a list of international ministries that we knew to be engaging children and youth in effective ways, and asked for their help in identifying how many young people they were reaching on a regular basis.

Those that could not provide concrete numbers (such as broadcast ministries, for instance) were left out of our projections. For Vision 2030 to be precise, we had to have measureable numbers that could be categorized. Those that responded to our requests for information with accurate numbers were then included as part of the external capacity of Vision 2030.

We took their annual ministry numbers from the most recent years and projected reasonable growth for the years to come from 2011-2030. As other ministries come aboard and are able to show measureable output for effective ministry, we will, of course, continue to adjust the numbers for external capacity as needed.

The full projection demonstrates the possible outreach, country by country, each year through 2030. The summary on this page shows possible global goals from 2010 – 2015 and then totals in five-year increments.

EXTERNAL CAPACITY PROJECTION SUMMARY FOR GLOBAL OUTREACH

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VISION 2030 ONEHOPE GAP ANALYSIS SUMMARY

If you compare the numbers projected for children and youth that are to be reached by the year 2030 with the total youth population, you will see there are still parts of the population expected to remain unreached. Why? There are three major causes for this gap:

1. We have launched Vision 2030 while working below capacity to reach every child in the current generation. Capacity means reaching 100 million every single year, whereas in 2011 we are still well below reaching 90 million. The young people in that gap each year until we reach capacity will essentially enter into adulthood, passing out of our target age group, before we reach them.

2. Some nations, due to their size or current projected access, are home to significant segments of population that we simply cannot foresee how to reach by 2030.

3. Nations that present severe access problems, such as Saudi Arabia and North Korea, offer no obvious possibility for OneHope Scripture engagement resources to impact the next generation in the foreseeable future. Thus some nations have, woefully, been left completely unreached in our projections.

We do expect significant narrowing of this gap in days and years to come, particularly as more local churches become aware of OneHope and vital connections are made with new partners. However, at this point in time, it’s undoubtedly clear that some part of this gap will essentially remain until the Lord miraculously opens doors for ministry in countries currently with limited access. Of course, this is a major prayer concern.