{"id":1148,"date":"2017-02-10T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:38:54","slug":"bolivia-report-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia Report 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bolivia.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1149\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bolivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2802\" height=\"2622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bolivia-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bolivia-768x719.png 768w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bolivia-1024x958.png 1024w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bolivia.png 2802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2802px) 100vw, 2802px\" \/><\/a>2016 Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 2016, under the direction of the Bolivian national team, the school program operated without any US funding whatsoever!\u00a0 In a nation rife with poverty and a quasi-communist government, the school program in Bolivia has become the model for all other national operations to follow.\u00a0 The combined efforts of the school program and chaplain program discipled an estimated half a million young people and the adults in their lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>School Program 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(The Bolivian school year is Feb \u2013 Nov)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>49,430 &#8211; Students with new textbooks<\/p>\n<p>73,496 &#8211; Students with used textbooks\/5 years aver. duty cycle<sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><u>359,037 &#8211; Students w\/o textbooks but whose teachers have a been certified and have texts<\/u><sup>\u2020\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>481,963 \u00a0\u00a0Total Students<\/p>\n<p><sup>\u2020 <\/sup>This number is <u>not confirmed<\/u> but an estimate based on field representative\u2019s reports.<\/p>\n<p><sup>\u2020\u2020 <\/sup>This number is <u>not confirmed<\/u> but an estimate based on the number of teachers certified in the program whose school did not purchase textbooks or use recycled textbook.\u00a0 In this case the teacher uses her copy as a guide for the class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adults <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>500 &#8211; Teachers Certified<\/p>\n<p><u>5,360 &#8211; Parents Trained<\/u><\/p>\n<p>5,860 \u00a0\u00a0Total Adults<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>143 Total number of schools served with new textbooks<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Projected Participation in 2017<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>63,000 Students &#8211; Santa Cruz<\/p>\n<p>900 Students &#8211; Cochabamba<\/p>\n<p>500 Students &#8211; Tarija<\/p>\n<p>1,500 Students &#8211; Beni<\/p>\n<p>3,000 Students &#8211; La Paz<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0 5,000 Students &#8211; Potosi<\/u><\/p>\n<p>81,000 Students with new textbooks (Based on existing pre-contracts)<sup>\u2020\u2020\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u2020\u2020\u2020<\/sup> Schools contract with an estimated number of students which is why the numbers are rounded.\u00a0 Once the school year begins, the actual numbers are supplemented.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chaplain Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Participants\/Disciples <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>155,720 Students<\/p>\n<p>5,924 Teachers<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0 46,667 Parents and Guardians <\/u><\/p>\n<p>208,311 Total Participants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chaplains <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>884 Adults<\/p>\n<p><u>3,639 Students<\/u><\/p>\n<p>4,523 Total Chaplains<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schools <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>274 Total number of schools served by chaplains<\/p>\n<p>(The % of school that overlap the school program small)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Churches <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>85 churches = 59,500 members were formed in schools by chaplains<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission Trips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3 Short term mission teams<\/p>\n<p>49 Short term missionaries<\/p>\n<p>13 Number of schools served<\/p>\n<p>2,613 Number of students reached by short term mission teams<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong> &#8211; In the first full year, the Bolivian chaplain program experienced growth and impact that is almost unprecedented.\u00a0 For political reasons the school program and chaplain program work as two separate organizations.\u00a0 The chaplain program discipled over 200,000 people in the Word of God, planted scores of churches and gave over 4000 people an opportunity to work in the ministry.\u00a0 WOW!!!<\/p>\n<p>The rapid growth did expose weaknesses in the organizational structure, administration and reporting mechanisms.\u00a0 The chaplain program team has been working for months to make the needed corrections.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Goals of the Chaplain Program in 2017<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Participants\/Disciples <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>160,000 Students<\/p>\n<p>6,000 Teachers<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0 50,000 Parents and Guardians <\/u><\/p>\n<p>216,000 Total Participants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chaplains <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>900 Adults<\/p>\n<p><u>4,000 Students<\/u><\/p>\n<p>4,900 Total Chaplains<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>300 Total number of schools served by chaplains<\/p>\n<p><strong>Churches <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>100 churches = 70,000 members<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission Trips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5 Short term mission teams<\/p>\n<p>50 Short term missionaries<\/p>\n<p>40 Number of schools served<\/p>\n<p>5000 Number of students reached by short term mission teams<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proposed<\/strong> &#8211; This year a new CRM will be employed to better manage staff and volunteers.\u00a0 A new organization structure encouraging innovation with a better leverage of local church sponsorship of volunteers.\u00a0 To reduce cost and increase accountability and efficiency, administration and accounting will be managed by the school program.<\/p>\n<p>Mission trips will be heavily promoted as a means of delivering the gospel and exposing school administrators to the hunger and need of spiritual mentorship on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The US team is also promoting intern opportunities to work with the chaplain program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special note: <\/strong>Documentation available<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your servant,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sig.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1072\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sig-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sig.png 319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rocky J. Malloy<\/p>\n<p>CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark 4:10-11\u00a0(MSG) When they were off by themselves, those who were close to him, along with the Twelve, asked about the stories. He told them, \u201cYou\u2019ve been given insight into God\u2019s kingdom\u2014you know how it works. But to those who can\u2019t see it yet, <u>everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecfa.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1073 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ecfa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mission Generation Inc. is a Texas non-profit corporation and a qualified charitable organization under \u00c2\u00a7501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code established in 1990. Mission Generation is a member of the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA) and recognized by Intelligent Philanthropist (IP) and Charitable Giving Foundation.\u00a0 EIN# 76-0324439<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 Summary In 2016, under the direction of the Bolivian national team, the school program operated without any US funding whatsoever!\u00a0 In a nation rife with poverty and a quasi-communist government, the school program in Bolivia has become the model for all other national operations to follow.\u00a0 The combined efforts of the school program and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,94,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-school-program","category-testimonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}