The 1231 Plan

The leadership of Cherry Street Mission Ministries is thinking ahead - in this case, we're thinking at least three years ahead and have developed The 1231 Plan. The 1231 focuses on a single day in our future; December 31, 2010.

We have asked, and are now answering through careful planning; What will Cherry Street Mission Ministries be doing on December 31, 2010?

Steven R. Covey says in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People; "Begin with the end in mind". If we know what we will be doing, then we can reverse engineer the steps necessary to reach the goals of that single day.

Here are some of the objectives we'll be working on and developing for 2008:

• Social Service Enterprises that will begin with schools for the culinary arts and construction.
• Serving the Church to be equipped and effective in reaching, training and supporting parents.
• After care programs that will support and connect our Ready For Life Graduates returning to the communities.
• Moving our Administrative Offices from the Monroe Street facility in an effort to provide improved living quarters for men in our program.
• Adopt A Block Programs that will reach into the systemic and rooted issues of neighborhoods.
• And much more ...
  

To receive additional information about The 1231 Plan, contact our office at 419-242-5141 or send me an email at danrogers@cherrystreetmission.org and we'll invite you to one of our quarterly community briefing sessions, held throughout the year.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, The Chairman of the Board Don Weiss, our Staff and our Guests ... Thank you for a wonderful year of service.

Dan