Caribbean Cause Strategic Planning Proposal Paper

Caribbean Cause is an alliance of Christian organizations in the Caribbean region. The CAUSE challenges anti-biblical and anti-scientific ideologies, law and policies in the public sphere, and works towards stability and sustainable development of the region by defending and promoting the Judeo-Christian worldview in their respective Caribbean societies and beyond.


As such we have come together to mobilize the church to respond to critical challenges to our laws and public policy being made by those who adhere to the secular world view

We see the church as the only entity with the standing and the capacity to mobilise the number of persons necessary to create a barrier against activist judges and liberal politicians, who are seeking to impose an increasingly radical and hostile secular world view on our societies.

We have therefore created a network of church leaders and churches throughout the Caribbean, which will earnestly contend for the Judeo-Christian worldview in the public sphere.


It is towards this end that this CC Strategic Initiative has been prayerfully and thoughtfully drafted. We refuse to stand by and allow truth to fall in the street. It is our vision and fervent prayer that as church leaders, churches and believers in every walk of life utilize this resource, the Caribbean would become a bastion of truth and God be glorified.



Vision

A Caribbean society of moral strength and a wholesome culture embodied in a sustainable environment where healthy families thrive, as best achieved through the Judeo-Christian worldview.

Mission

To be a watchdog and advocate for the preservation of the godly principles enshrined in our laws, proliferation of truth, human flourishing and the protection of the family, resisting the secular

worldview through vigilance, advocacy, education and mobilization

Issues of Focus

  1. LGBTQ Agenda

  2. Abortion

  3. The Family

  4. The Society

  5. True Human Rights

  6. Democracy

  7. Judicial Activism

  8. National Sovereignty

  9. Education

6 Strategies:

  1. Vigilance

  2. Education

  3. Mobilization

  4. Advocacy

  5. Leadership

  6. Evangelism

(list the 7 sectors

Strategy 1. To be vigilantly watchful over the seven sectors of society ​ ​)​ to actively resist the secular worldview; emphasizing the issues of focus.​

Strategy 2. To educate the Caribbean society of the Judeo-Christian worldview in​ contradistinction to the destructive nature of the secular worldview, raising up leaders, with respect to the issues of focus.​

Strategy 3. To mobilize the church, youth and well thinking Caribbean citizens to defend the Judeo-Christian worldview and resist the secular worldview with respect to the​ issues of focus.​

Strategy 4. To advocate for political and legal resistance to the secular worldview and promotion of the Judeo-Christian worldview with respect to the issues of focus.

Strategy 5. To raise leaders, especially​ among our youth, who will recognize the mandate to become national and regional leaders of integrity who will stand for righteousness and advance the vision herein articulated as they build professional careers in the seven sectors.

6. To evangelize the lgbtq community, thereby obeying the Great Commission, reducing their numbers, and making those converts our most effective contenders and voices for truth.

Vigilance

Strategy 1. To be vigilantly watchful over the seven sectors of society to actively resist the secular worldview; emphasizing the issues of focus.

a) Detecting threats that exist in the education curriculum, draft legislation, appointments, media and entertainment, business and international developments b) Sounding the alarm, alerting the army to action, especially those at ease

Vigilance Goals: An Alarm System

  1. Legislative Watch - tracking proposed legislation in parliament and responding accordingly through advocacy, education and mobilization.

  2. Meeting with leaders in government in order to be effectively represented on the nation's frontline

  3. Affirmatively advocating for legislation that will protect and advance the CC mission.

  4. Assessing proposed appointees (oppositional research) and vetting prospective candidates for government

  5. Proactively assessing curricula throughout the educational system

  6. Mapping global threats and how they translate in our region

  7. Detecting and investigating matters of concern

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  8. Enabling Proactivity: identifying avenues to advance truth and strategically positioning god-fearing leaders

  9. Vetting prospective internal leadership

Accessibility:

  1. Whatsapp number

  2. Email address - ccalert@gmail.com

  3. Social MediaCampaigns “see something say something”

Education:

Strategy 2. To educate the Caribbean society of the Judeo-Christian worldview in contradistinction to the destructive nature of the secular worldview, raising up leaders, with respect to the issues of focus.

This should target:

      1. Churches:

      1. Pre-School and Kindergarten: Eg. Writing children's book

      1. Primary School

      1. High School

a. Prioritize sustainable training of youth for leadership

i. Collaboration with ISCF, IVCF or their equivalents

      1. Educate and involve them in all other strategies, through mentoring, “internships”, giving them specific tasks.

      1. Hosting fora and empowering youth to bring other youth

      1. Immunizations - Empowering Christian youth to stand against the secular agenda as they transition from high school to college

5. University

a. Boot Camps

i. Virtual Sessions where persons have to defend the

Judeo-Christian worldview, after 2 weeks of training. Host would be devil’s advocate

6. The Public

a. Via Social Media Campaigns

i. Creating and disseminating compelling slogans, imploding their slogans demonstrating the danger and falsehood of the slogans of the pro-LGBT lobby etc

1. This can be done via slogan competition with a prize

      1. Bill boards, town hall meetings (in person and online)

      2. Mainstream Media: TV campaigns, Newspaper and Radio

7. Parenting - The primary educational setting of a nation

      1. Children’s books and programmes for parents

      2. Alerting parents regarding the destructive content of CSE

Utilizing some existing educational videos/material:

  1. The Wall (to the church)

  2. Drs. West MTM tv programme

- May also grab excerpts and generate content online

  1. Use of Creative Arts

  1. Using content currently on social media

- Eg. Prager U, Live Action,

Through the use of:

  1. Scholarships for journalists, lawyers and politicians – ensuring biblical worldview

  2. Regional Camps

  3. Creating our own Video University (Like Prager U)

- This can be on youtube, fb and Teachable

  1. Books

  2. Movies

  1. Coordinated regional programme for churches

Mobilization:

Strategy 3. To mobilize the church, youth and well thinking Caribbean citizens to defend the Judeo-Christian worldview and resist the secular worldview with respect to the issues of focus.

Sustainably transforming systems at one’s place of work, and engaging in emergency initiatives. Believers should also intentionally place themselves in positions of influence and use their placement to effect change.

Mobilization Goals

  1. Communicate a wide reaching and clear message about the urgency of the issue, and the range of necessary actions

  2. Call together pastors country by country or region by region and host strategic planning forums

  3. Prioritize youth as game changers and equip youth leaders to agitate for action

  4. Evangelism of lgbtq sympathizers and activists, with a focus on the Sauls becoming Pauls, thus giving unequaled impetus in the fight and manifesting the love of Christ.

  5. Influence influencers and invite to special events, specifically targeting lawyers and politicians

  6. Recruiting persons to join CC at different levels. - Interview process necessary for main team

  7. Event focussed secretariat, getting permission and list of pastors from denominational heads

  8. Pastors should be asked to identify and sanction capable and dedicated leaders

  9. Mainstream media - engaging current and creating our own

  10. Social media mobilization - Each member will be asked to like the social media page and invite 100 friends from their country. Persons will be asked to create 2 - 5 minute videos tackling issues of focus and the obstacles listed below.

  11. Church sponsored community meetings to inform the public of threats and strategic response

12. ​ Rallying where the battle is fiercest. Focussing our resources of prayer and other​ forms of critical support on frontline areas.

These may be accomplished through the use of :

      1. Movie/ documentary events​

      2. Creating a media team

      3. Music and jingles

      4. Panel Discussions, Zoom Regional Conferences/Symposiums engaging principals, guidance counselors, PTAs, health professionals and law professionals

      5. Regional Events such as : Regional Day of Prayer & Regional Family Week

      6. Platforms for youth leaders to spread the Judeo-Christian worldview via all media and at events in churches and in the community

Advocacy:

Strategy 4. To advocate for political and legal resistance to the secular worldview and promotion of the Judeo-Christian worldview with respect to the issues of focus.

Advocacy Goals

  1. Lobby parliament and parliamentary representatives to enact or protest legislation.

  2. Publicize lobbying efforts, informing the public of the threats at hand.

  3. Organize community groups, churches to resist the encroachments of anti-God agenda.

  4. Fundraise through approaching the government, corporations, individuals and other well resourced entities who share the Judeo-Christian worldview to help to fund the cause.

  5. Encourage church leaders to devote ministry resources to fight this battle and support specific strategies.

  6. Strategically positioning at least one lawyer on each island who will be able advocate for righteous laws, enabling cross-border support

  7. Creating a database of legal precedents

  8. Prioritize all Caribbean nations adopting a constitutional protection for marriage between one man and one woman as it is done in Jamaica

Through the use of:

  1. Letter writing to individuals, institutions or the media

  2. Press releases and press conferences

  3. Tv, radio interviews

  4. Legal challenges

  5. Protests and Rallies

  6. Social media activism

  7. Position papers

Fundraising:

  1. Caribbean Cause to be legitimized

  2. Each member to give $50 US per year

  3. Down to earth fundraising campaigns

Major threats to our mission:

  1. A lack of understanding of the theology of suffering

  2. A lack of supreme allegiance to the Kingdom of God above political party, the face of men and earthly things (To be used to form one of the core values)

  3. How we respond to the end times. What is our role - spectators or partners with the Lord?

  4. Disunity in the Church, including doctrinal differences

  1. Church dependency on governments for grants, handouts and favour.

  1. Religious affluence over influence. The prioritization of monetary prowess over being effective kingdom representatives

Organizational Structure

A Hybrid model is suggested, which merges hierarchy and agility. See video below https://youtu.be/Pc7EVXnF2aI​

It recommends the Hybrid Model as the Best Model, where we combine

(a). the Circular, Flexible Model, from the Centre out,

(b). with the Hierarchical Model (from the Top down), with All its Bureaucracy.

Potential Proposed Structure:

President

VP - Lesser Antilles

VP - Greater Antilles

(The division of roles could be geographical or based on internal verses external functions (Internal would be money, HR, administration; External would be advocacy, education, mobilizatio, vigilance)

Director of Vigilance

Director of Education

Director of Mobilization

Director of Advocacy
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Director of Human Relations

Director of Administration

Treasurer and Chief Fundraiser

Chief Advocate for Individual Countries

Teams

The Seven Strategy Questions:

1. Who Is Your Primary Customer?

  1. How Do Your Core Values Prioritize Shareholders, Employees, and Customers?

What tough decisions have been guided by your core values? • Do your core values recognize your business’s responsibility to others? • Is everyone committed to your core values?

  1. What Critical Performance Variables Are You Tracking?

• What is your theory of value creation? • What could cause your strategy to fail? • How do you create accountability for performance?

4. What Strategic Boundaries Have You Set?

• What are your major reputation risks? • Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? • What strategic initiatives will you not support?

5. How Are You Generating Creative Tension?

• How are you motivating everyone to think like winning competitors? • How do you encourage innovation across units? • Have committees and dual reporting made your organization too complex?

6. How Committed Are Your Employees to Helping Each Other?

• What is your theory of motivation? • How are you creating shared responsibility for success? • How do your compensation policies affect commitment to help others?

7. What Strategic Uncertainties Keep You Awake at Night?

• How do you focus everyone’s attention on these uncertainties? • What system do you use interactively to stimulate change? • How do you encourage bottom-up information sharing?

Simons, Robert. Seven Strategy Questions . Harvard Business Review Press. Kindle Edition.