A
Letter to Share Owners
2000
Share Owner Annual Report
You
invest in our work-caring about us, praying for us, and giving
to us-so in a very real way you share ownership in any results
that God works through our ministry. Last year in our "Letter
to Share Owners" we gave an overview of what we had accomplished
that year and our goals for the coming year. It was a hit, so
we thought we'd do it again. Here's the bottom line for 2000:
2000
Share Owner Annual Report
Annette
& Tim Gulick
(Missionaries - OC Int'l)
Ticker Symbol:
OCI
Dividends
We believe that ministry normally pays dividends eternally, and
it is impossible to measure the true impact of our lives and work.
But because we set both long and short term goals and objectives,
there are annual dividends that we can measure from this last
year.
Youth
Leaders taught conferences……………….….....
180
Church Leaders/Lay Leaders mentored……………..….
8
Number of Discipleship Groups/Week…………….…….
2
Average Youth Group Attendance (local church)….…. 30
(up from 19 a year ago)
Internet Youth Ministry Training Courses Developed…. 1
Active Bible Lessons - written and published.….……...
6
Discipleship
Studies - translated and published…….... 32
Regular Columnists/Collaborators on Web Site………..
12
(up from 7 a year ago)
Partnering Relationships with Other Organizations….... 2
Paid Employees (part-time)…………………………….……
5
(up 1 from a year ago)
Unique Web Site Visitors...………….…….....
62,000/year total
(max of 10,600/month)
Web
Site Hits (pages viewed).………………..
1.4 million total
(max of 210,000/month)
Pages on Youth Ministry Web Site………………….……
1025
(up from 550 a year ago)
Registered
for Youth Ministry E-mailing..………... 785
(as of Sept. 2000, up from 371)
We spent the first four months of 2000 on furlough,
the time we missionaries are sent home to reestablish relationships
with churches, families and individuals who support us in our
ministry, so we thought we'd share some fun stats from that time
as well:
States visited………………………………………….……
20
Percentage of supporting churches visited… .…….
100%
Percentage of active supporters visited……….…….
80%
Miles driven visiting churches and individuals…..…10,000
Total pounds gained (and lost) ……………….…..…..
31
Our
Goals for 2001
· Be involved at our local church, specifically in youth
leadership development
·
Encourage quality, reproducible, culturally relevant youth ministry
by discipling/mentoring Mexicans who are currently doing youth
ministry or who are in training
· Organize and/or participate in at least 5 youth leaders'
seminars. As often as possible this should be done in cooperation
with the youth ministry team we've helped develop which includes
specialists in various aspects of youth ministry
· Develop and begin implementing a plan for following up,
with more in-depth training, those leaders who attend our seminars.
This should be done in cooperation with youth ministry team
·
Complete the upgrade of the youth leaders web site "Sepal.org/Jovenes"
to a database driven site "ParaLideres.com" which should
cut in half the amount of time we spend on programming and site
management. Assure that we do everything possible to facilitate
collaboration between various ministries
· Develop and translate quality youth ministry resources…
primarily Bible and discipleship studies
· Develop at least 4 more online youth ministry training
courses
· Develop 4 new Bible study series (approximately 24 lessons
total)
· Provide at least 5 original, useful articles on youth
ministry topics each month via the web in addition to other new
content (i.e.: bible studies, games, illustrations, etc)
· Incorporate 2 additional writers/contributors into the
web site team
· Continue to foster sharing of ideas and resources among
the site's visitors and use the site as a clearing house for such
a sharing and collaboration
· Help develop skills and abilities of members of the web
site teamThank
You for Your Faithful Support & Friendship
