A. Executive Summary

I see an opportunity.As a church, Rockland Community Church has tried to help young people in Tanzania to become more independent.Individuals have debated among themselves mission, strategy and common goals.

A more straight-forward approach seems appropriate.I would like to form a Denver/Tanzanian partnership.Let’s call it Christian Enablers International (or, just Christian Enablers). It will organize according to the following parameters:
a. Operate “for profit”
b. Organize as a “B” corporation, whose profit motivation is married to a social betterment objective (Colorado now allows for such a corporation.An LLC may organize itself with a dual purpose, by virtue of its inherent nature.)
c. Invite/attract potential investors to consider, participate.As a business opportunity, create and operate a Tanzanian Christian mission company to arrange, plan for, host, and manage US Christian group participation in Tanzanian missions and mission visitation trips.

The mission of Christian Enablers International will be based upon the premise that the joy of giving constitutes one of the greatest pleasures a person can experience during a lifetime.It springs from an understanding of how God has blessed each giver.A full and contextual understanding will naturally stimulate an individual to leverage those blessings through a passionate and thankful response.The focus of this organization’s mission will be on the giver rather than the recipient, but turning both into equal transactionally related parties.

The mission statement of this company might read something like this:
Christian Enablers International provides Christians in the United States (Enablers) an opportunity to understand and focus personal Christian purpose and direction by beneficially impacting foreign-country peers through international travel, leveraging talents and knowledge, partnering with foreign Christians in discipleship endeavors, and chronicling results in an experiential mission that employs individual innovation, inherited blessings, practiced talent, empathetic investment and love.

Christian Enablers International envisions Enabler-ship experiences whereby each contributing Enabler must wrap-up his project, leaving as a legacy an educationally improved and entrepreneurially motivated and equipped recipient of his talents and inspiration.Each Enabler will prepare for, contribute to and achieve a life-altering experiential exercise in giving of one’s talents and abilities that will leave each with an indelible;
• Appreciation for who he is,
• Sense of discipleship engagement and fulfillment,
• Understanding of how he might want to leverage his talents through remaining adulthood, and
• Personal sense of purpose inspiration that would not have occurred absent this experience.

Christian churches constantly wrestle with how to more fully engage their congregants in Christian living.Although many congregants look at Christian involvement as mainly attending church on Sundays, the church tries to supplement the regimented celebration and praise of God on Sunday with opportunities to experience;
1. Discipleship,
2. Love for others,
3. Sharing with those less fortunate, and
4. Encouraging each other in the faith.

By providing an opportunity to travel abroad, to share their talents with those less fortunate, and to share Christian encouragement and love (both ways) with other Christians from other cultures, Christian Enablers provides a Christian experience that most mission trip organizers would find challenging to pull off effectively and efficiently.As an independent organization focused on mission preparation and facilitation, preparation and arranged involvement of brothers and sisters in Christ from different continents, circumstances and cultures takes on a much more spiritually powerful air.

Christian Enablers operates in the context of the following:
1. Adhere to compliance with laws and regulations
2. Comport to high ethical standards
3. Operate independently
4. Organize and operate for profit
5. Require transaction based interaction
6. Embrace commonality of purpose and effort in organizing documents
7. Organize as a Community Benefit (“B” Corporation) partnership
8. Emphasize partners in discipleship

The target markets will pull from existing Christian churches, because churches constitute not only a source for identifying Christian disciples; they also embrace the Christian tenants that Christian Enablers wants to uphold and promote.Furthermore, Christian churches provide a wonderful source of potential mission trip sponsors.Pastors and lay leaders may serve as leveraged resources to identify and nominate eligible Christian disciples.These leaders’ passion for international Christian service will likely surpass any other source.Their access to and knowledge of individuals who might be ready to take the next step in their walk with Christ could hardly be matched by any other source.

As in the Denver area, pastors and lay leaders in Arusha serve as natural and potentially powerful sources of Christian mission leverage.Like their US counterparts, Arusha leaders represent a source of knowledge and insight into their parishioners’ stages of spiritual maturity.

The objectives of Christian Enablers will include the following:
Profit Maximization – Profit maximization incentivizes creativity, risk taking, and mutual expectation that the people with whom it deals stand on equal footing.
Results Accountability – Christian Enablers aspires to sustain itself by making a profit (rewarding its investors), as well as by providing a societal good (jobs provided, managers promoted, entrepreneurs rewarded).
Societal Good Maximization – Christian Enablers aspires to turn economically disadvantaged individuals, though caught in the trap of a poor economic opportunity circumstance, into profit incentivized and rewarded participants in both a profit-worthy as well as a Christian discipleship-opportunity endeavor.
Transaction Orientation – Christian Enablers will conduct itself with the utmost respect for its partners, never rewarding anyone without requiring reciprocal fair value and always rewarding value received with reciprocal fair compensation.
Incentivizing – Christian Enablers seeks to achieve a worthwhile co-discipleship between Christians from economically contrasted countries; it also seeks to provide economic and spiritually motivated individuals the opportunity to participate in this discipleship walk and to strengthen themselves economically in the context of full mutual respect and economic partnership.
Societal Contribution – To the extent that Christian Enablers yields profits, it will pass those profits on to its investors in the form of taxable income, or allow itself to be taxed itself.

Financial statements and supporting accounting records will support the Company’s objective of maximizing the reasonable generation of profits, and return of a portion of profits to its equity investors.In addition, the Company will supplement traditional financial statements with the reporting of program achievements, both with quantitative measurements to measure efficiency, and qualitative analysis to serve as the basis for experiential and outcome reporting.Quantitative and qualitative reporting will provide the basis for making conclusions relating to the accomplishment of its programmatic mission and objectives.

The operations of Christian Enablers will concentrate on the planning for, conduct of, and follow-up of Christian mission trips to Tanzania.The Company anticipates that each mission trip will include a combination of activities, all intended to support the overall mission of discipleship partnering.

The initial planning of mission trips will consist of a combination of the following activities:
1. Inventorying and planning for the engagement of personal talents,
2. Establishment and development of peer to peer relationships between US and Tanzanian mission team members (discipleship partners),
3. Participation in culturally significant activities by mini-teams of discipleship partners,
4. Visitation of Tanzanian missions, assistance, observance, and participation in mission significant activities (as determined appropriate on a mission by mission basis),
5. Involvement in single day safari adventures,
6. Sharing in daily fellowship, including spiritual meditation, discussion, story-telling, and prayer,
7. Daily documentation of individual experience,
8. Daily documentation of mission team (as a whole) experience and impact,
9. Opportunity for individual local exploration, such as local town or park visitation,
10. Opportunity for personal devotion and/or free time,
11. Opportunity to communicate with loved ones,
12. Opportunity for extended stay additional safari.

The specific itinerary and agenda of each mission team’s trip will likely vary.Based upon experience, the length of each mission trip may be adjusted from that of previous mission trips.

The partnership between the planning, marketing and overall management organization located in the United States and the conduct of activities and peer partnering in Tanzania provides an opportunity for profit sharing.The mechanism and proportionate elements of profit sharing will require negotiation.Nevertheless, as a key objective of incentivizing Tanzanian entrepreneurs, each season’s profit will be shared between each country’s partners.Finally, Christian Enablers will evaluate the social benefit that it will have achieved by the conclusion of each mission trip.

Many organizations and individuals have attempted and failed to significantly assist Tanzania and other African nations to achieve independent, vibrant, and self-sustaining economies.Tanzanian individuals and families continue to struggle to achieve decent standards of living.Christian Enablers risks similar failure.But in the context of Christian discipleship and love of one another, Christian Enablers seeks to leverage the talents and abilities of a few Tanzanian individuals toward a better lifestyle through entrepreneurship, mentored by Christian investors blessed with circumstantial advantages not seen by most Tanzanians.Christian Enablers offers hope, as well as mutual engagement towards a Christian end.

Christian churches constantly wrestle with how to more fully engage their congregants in Christian living. Although many congregants look at Christian involvement as mainly attending church on Sundays, the church tries to supplement the regimented celebration and praise of God on Sunday with opportunities to experience;

Discipleship,
Love for others,
Sharing with those less fortunate, and
Encouraging each other in the faith.

By providing an opportunity to travel abroad, to share their talents with those less fortunate, and to share Christian encouragement and love (both ways) with other Christians from other cultures, Christian Enablers provides a Christian experience that most mission trip organizers would find challenging to pull off effectively and efficiently. As an independent organization focused on mission preparation and facilitation, preparation and arranged involvement of brothers and sisters in Christ from different continents, circumstances and cultures takes on a much more spiritually powerful air.

Christian Enablers operates in the context of the following:

Adhere to compliance with laws and regulations
Comport to high ethical standards
Operate independently
Organize and operate for profit
Require transaction based interaction
Embrace commonality of purpose and effort in organizing documents
Organize as a Community Benefit (“B” Corporation) partnership
Emphasize partners in discipleship

The target markets will pull from existing Christian churches, because churches constitute not only a source for identifying Christian disciples; they also embrace the Christian tenants that Christian Enablers wants to uphold and promote. Furthermore, Christian churches provide a wonderful source of potential mission trip sponsors. Pastors and lay leaders may serve as leveraged resources to identify and nominate eligible Christian disciples. These leaders’ passion for international Christian service will likely surpass any other source. Their access to and knowledge of individuals who might be ready to take the next step in their walk with Christ could hardly be matched by any other source.

As in the Denver area, pastors and lay leaders in Arusha serve as natural and potentially powerful sources of Christian mission leverage. Like their US counterparts, Arusha leaders represent a source of knowledge and insight into their parishioners’ stages of spiritual maturity.

The objectives of Christian Enablers will include the following:

Profit Maximization – Profit maximization incentivizes creativity, risk taking, and mutual expectation that the people with whom it deals stand on equal footing.

Results Accountability – Christian Enablers aspires to sustain itself by making a profit (rewarding its investors), as well as by providing a societal good (jobs provided, managers promoted, entrepreneurs rewarded).

Societal Good Maximization – Christian Enablers aspires to turn economically disadvantaged individuals, though caught in the trap of a poor economic opportunity circumstance, into profit incentivized and rewarded participants in both a profit-worthy as well as a Christian discipleship-opportunity endeavor.

Transaction Orientation – Christian Enablers will conduct itself with the utmost respect for its partners, never rewarding anyone without requiring reciprocal fair value and always rewarding value received with reciprocal fair compensation.

Incentivizing – Christian Enablers seeks to achieve a worthwhile co-discipleship between Christians from economically contrasted countries; it also seeks to provide economic and spiritually motivated individuals the opportunity to participate in this discipleship walk and to strengthen themselves economically in the context of full mutual respect and economic partnership.

Societal Contribution – To the extent that Christian Enablers yields profits, it will pass those profits on to its investors in the form of taxable income, or allow itself to be taxed itself.

Financial statements and supporting accounting records will support the Company’s objective of maximizing the reasonable generation of profits, and return of a portion of profits to its equity investors. In addition, the Company will supplement traditional financial statements with the reporting of program achievements, both with quantitative measurements to measure efficiency, and qualitative analysis to serve as the basis for experiential and outcome reporting. Quantitative and qualitative reporting will provide the basis for making conclusions relating to the accomplishment of its programmatic mission and objectives.

The operations of Christian Enablers will concentrate on the planning for, conduct of, and follow-up of Christian mission trips to Tanzania. The Company anticipates that each mission trip will include a combination of activities, all intended to support the overall mission of discipleship partnering.

The initial planning of mission trips will consist of a combination of the following activities:

Establishment and development of peer to peer relationships between US and Tanzanian mission team members (discipleship partners),
Participation in culturally significant activities by mini-teams of discipleship partners,
Visitation of Tanzanian missions, assistance, observance, and participation in mission significant activities (as determined appropriate on a mission by mission basis),
Involvement in single day safari adventures,
Sharing in daily fellowship, including spiritual meditation, discussion, story-telling, and prayer,
Daily documentation of individual experience,
Daily documentation of mission team (as a whole) experience and impact,
Opportunity for individual local exploration, such as local town or park visitation,
Opportunity for personal devotion and/or free time,
Opportunity to communicate with loved ones,
Opportunity for extended stay additional safari.

The specific itinerary and agenda of each mission team’s trip will likely vary. Based upon experience, the length of each mission trip may be adjusted from that of previous mission trips.

The partnership between the planning, marketing and overall management organization located in the United States and the conduct of activities and peer partnering in Tanzania provides an opportunity for profit sharing. The mechanism and proportionate elements of profit sharing will require negotiation. Nevertheless, as a key objective of incentivizing Tanzanian entrepreneurs, each season’s profit will be shared between each country’s partners. Finally, Christian Enablers will evaluate the social benefit that it will have achieved by the conclusion of each mission trip.

Many organizations and individuals have attempted and failed to significantly assist Tanzania and other African nations to achieve independent, vibrant, and self-sustaining economies. Tanzanian individuals and families continue to struggle to achieve decent standards of living. Christian Enablers risks similar failure. But in the context of Christian discipleship and love of one another, Christian Enablers seeks to leverage the talents and abilities of a few Tanzanian individuals toward a better lifestyle through entrepreneurship, mentored by Christian investors blessed with circumstantial advantages not seen by most Tanzanians. Christian Enablers offers hope, as well as mutual engagement towards a Christian end.