The community and its people are advancing toward their God-given potential by:

• Being facilitated to progress beyond meeting their basic needs
• Having growing groups of transformed people, loving God and one another, manifesting the fruit of care and concern, reaching out to serve others.

Understanding Key words in the VOC

• Community and its People. - Our help must ultimately benefit the community and its people (not just national or church levels).
• Advancing. - We desire to create a process that keeps spreading.
• God-given potential is the aim, not FHI’s potential.
• Facilitated. - We help people do their own development.
• Basic needs. - Entire range of needs
• Transformed people. - People whose lives have been changed by the values of VOC.
• Manifesting the fruit of Care and Concern. - Doing practical projects for the benefits of the community.

Three Partner Groups in the VOC

• FHI workers are increasingly reaching out to the community.
• Leaders are increasingly solving problems
• Families are increasingly meeting each other’s needs.