HOPE IN VIEW INC

Hope In View aims to develop redemptive communities in all the religious sectors of Ethiopia. Redemptive communities are environments in which ordinary people experience spiritual, physical, economic, educational, social, and environmental transformations that allow them to live together with people of other tribal groups in health, prosperity, and harmony. These transformations happen when people interact with the teachings about Jesus of Nazareth present within almost all of the religions of Ethiopia in the company of friends who love them and hold them accountable to what they are learning. Hope In View further aims to develop networks of leaders in these communities who internalize these values, who are personally supported and held accountable by other leaders, who have the skills to promote this kind of transformation in small groups, and who can become agents of change throughout their communities with no need for financial help from outsiders.

Hope In View’s primary strategy is to develop visible models of redemptive communities in every demographic group, from which others can derive inspiration and know-how. Specific steps toward this include the following:
1. Training and mentoring religious leaders on all levels, from small group leaders to organizational heads, to promote spirituality that produces health in all areas of life.
2. Promotion of self-multiplying self-help groups that can lift people out of poverty without outside subsidy.
3. Temporary sponsorship from outside the country of children in desperate need until such time as local churches and community groups can take over this function.
4. Various trainings for the broader community in areas of health, finances, business development, and peace-making.
5. Occasional short-term relief efforts in collaboration with local churches or other groups when acute crises threaten to derail progress and future development.

Keys to our success are the following:
1. Hope In View acts only by invitation from local churches or other groups, who own all of the projects.
2. Hope In View works primarily with groups rather than individuals, as real change takes place only when people work together, developing and contributing a diversity of perspectives and gifts. We have found this happens best in small group settings.
3. Hope In View has long-term relationships with Ethiopian leaders in Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and other settings who value its mentoring within their own cultural contexts.
4. Hope In View strongly advocates multi-level structured leadership networks, in which no leader cares for more than 12 people directly and in which every leader receives care and accountability from another leader.
5. Hope In View works hard to do long-term planning and develop local funding so that its work will continue after Hope In View ceases to exist.
6. Hope In View reinforces on every level the principle that every worker is accountable to God in every area of life.

Hope In View’s leaders have decades of cross-cultural leadership experience in churches, non-profit organizations, medical ministries, and educational institutions. We have more than 19 years of relationships with leaders within Ethiopia, and we have long-term relationships with many donors based on trust, accountability, and transparency.

During the COVID crisis in 2020, we have provided:
- resources on leadership during COVID for Ethiopian leaders
- matching grants to Ethiopian organizations enabling them to raise money toward COVID and flood relief
- food for 8522 needy people through over 200 churches
- resources enabling over 100 pastors in devastated communities to stay in ministry
- oversight for small group ministries where COVID closed churches
- a growing child sponsorship program serving almost 200 very needy families and making consistent home visits to them during the lockdown
- oversight for urban and rural self-help groups, which together have accumulated $16,309 in assets
- mentoring for leaders in 8 geographically separate movements of churches in several religious contexts.

What’s next:

Hope In View has provided another matching grant to raise relief funds for people displaced by an ethnic conflict and is strategizing to restore their churches and equip them for peace-making. We have begun in-depth reviews of progress and obstacles in each movement with which we work and data collection on their progress in forming redemptive communities. We will continue providing training based on specific topics identified by the above research.

Hope In View aims to increase our child sponsorship program to impact a larger number of very needy families in the community, to update our self-help group reporting systems and training curricula based on lessons learned over the last 7 years, and to offer renewed training to our colleagues in Ethiopia in the areas of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) to further improve our work within the community.