seeing and serving

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VISION SAN DIEGO

• seeing and serving

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Faith in Action Xtreme

• One purpose
• let your light shine before men, that they may
  see your good deeds and glorify your Father in
  heaven. Matthew 516
• Three venues
• Look at the immediate Community around your
  church
• Join with other churches to serve your City
• Address large needs that exist throughout our
  County
• Five initiatives

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Foster Care

• Pure and undefiled religionis this to visit
  orphansin their distress

• Seeing the need

• 7,000 foster children awaiting a home in San
  Diego County
• 3 year wait to be assigned a foster home
• 3 the average number of homes a foster baby
  lives in during first year
• 12-14 the average number of homes a foster
  child lives in over 18 years

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Foster Care

• Pure and undefiled religionis this to visit
  orphansin their distress

• God is glorified when we

• Provide respite for foster care providers
• Conduct a day camp, sports clinic or field trip
  experience for foster youth
• Adopt a foster group home
• Become a foster parent

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Elder Care

• Pure and undefiled religionis this to visit
  widows in their distress

• Seeing the need

• 22,000 seniors and disabled requiring assistance
  from San Diego social services system
• 1 the number of visits per year from a case
  worker

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Elder Care

• Pure and undefiled religionis this to visit
  widows in their distress

• God is glorified when we

• Make regular visits to seniors
• Do light repair work on their homes
• Provide transportation to appointments and to
  church
• Become trained caregivers

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Mentoring

• I was a stranger and you took me in in prison
  and you came to me

• Seeing the need

• Mentored youth are
• 52 less likely to skip school
• 27 less likely to use drugs
• 80 less likely to become repeat offenders

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Mentoring

• I was a stranger and you took me in in prison
  and you came to me

• God is glorified when we

• Assist mentoring organizations
• Engage in juvenile diversion program
• Mentor youth released on probation
• Mentor ex-gang members

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Tutoring

• Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And
  they received sight

• Seeing the need

• 150 schools in San Diego County where more than
  half the 3rd graders are not reading at grade
  level
• 85 of youth in the juvenile justice system are
  functionally illiterate

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Tutoring

• Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And
  they received sight

• God is glorified when we

• Spend one hour a week reading with children in
  their classroom
• Volunteer in literacy programs at public
  libraries
• Start after school tutoring program at your church

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Military

• I was a stranger and you invited me in sick and
  you looked after me

• Seeing the need

• 500,000 military (active duty reserved),
  veterans and dependents in San Diego
• 80 of all military returning from a combat zone
  experience a Traumatic Stress Injury

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Military

• I was a stranger and you invited me in sick and
  you looked after me

• God is glorified when we

• Receive veterans referred to our church by VA
• Organize support groups for returning soldiers
  and their families
• Adopt family of a deployed soldier
• Train staff or lay leader to counsel soldiers
  with TSI

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR SERVING THE CITY

• VISION SAN DIEGO

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Our Role

• Vision San Diego serves as a catalyst and
  resource, engaging the church in sharing the good
  news and good deeds of the gospel to effect the
  spiritual and societal transformation of San Diego

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We partner with others in the city
Centered Set
Bounded Set
Do you believe like I believe?
Do you care about what I care about?
People of good faith working together with people
of good will
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We center on service to the city
Needs and Dreams of the City
Evangelism is our ultimate motive, not our
ulterior motive

Control
Common Grace
Service
Mandates and Desires of God
Callings and Capacities of the Church
Saving Grace
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We blessdont condemn the city

• This is what the Lordsays to all those I carried
  into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon seek the
  peace and prosperity of the city to which I have
  carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it,
  because as it prospers, you too will prosper.
  
• Jeremiah 294-7

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Contact Us

• Vision San Diego
• www.visionsandiego.com/xtreme
• Sam Williams
• swilliams_at_visionsd.org
• 858-444-4406