CCM November 2020 Perspective

NOVEMBER 2020
PERSPECTIVE
FROM THE FRONTLINES
From Our Executive Director, Ed Hosack
INFLUENCING FUTURE OUTCOMES
Influencing the future. It's
not Hocus-Pocus; it's Hard
Work and Persistence. In
fact, it's a lot of work; it
requires patient study and
effective decision making.
We live our lives today
exceeding the speed limit
and watching the car in
front of us. We react to
the changes that occur directly in our path,
because the best reactor will be the most
successful.
Strategic foresight requires the discipline to
approach life differently. To step away from
the controls long enough to study the horizon
for factors or conditions that will influence the
journey. Try this while you are operating at
full speed and you will crash. It is not difficult,
however, when you take the time to study the
horizon, to see the mountains or the storm
clouds in the distance.
Being aware of those future realities gives us
the opportunity to make decisions and take
actions that will impact the outcomes of our
endeavors. That is how CCM has developed our
Vision for Cabarrus County in 2030.
CCM’s Board of Directors launched in October
an initiative to develop our “2025 New
Horizon” Strategic Plan that will move us
toward the 10-year vision.
Goals, objectives, strategies and action steps
will be identified and outlined through prayers
for discernment and the help of our community
partners.
We look forward to executing that plan with all
of you.

COMING IN FEBRUARY...
CCM's 2025 "New Horizons" Strategic Plan
From Our Director Of
Community Engagement,
Jeremy Burleson
COLLABORATION
As I stepped away
after nearly 20 years of
working in the corporate
business sector, I carried
one very significant
accomplishment of my
career with a prodigious sense of importance…
that being the relationships which were built
over that span.
Those relationships were built on three
meaningful, but simple, attributes of success:
trust, communication and shared common
goals. Thankfully, the aims of the network
of churches here in Cabarrus and southern
Rowan counties and CCM do indeed share
commonality; to share the goodness and grace
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through our
respective ministries.
God has provided us a pathway to a successful
relationship by way of that shared objective.
A 2030 Vision for this community as well as
a Strategic Plan of collaboration toward that
Vision, is now up to US.
With that, how can CCM play a part
in your church’s community outreach
and local missions plan?
Let’s meet… Let’s talk… Let’s have coffee…
Let’s have lunch… most importantly, let’s PRAY
together!
I hope for many opportunities ahead to meet
each of you personally and share the latest
direction of Cooperative Christian Ministry
(CCM) to your body of believers. I believe that
God will continue to reward our discernment
and diligence immensely and that HE has
something special in store!
TOGETHER
WE STAND UNITED
NOVEMBER CRISIS UPDATE
CCM continues to operate under the COVID response
models in our food, financial and housing programs. In
September, we added part-time staff to increase our
service delivery.
Applications for financial assistance to address rent
and utilities continue to challenge our capacity to
serve.
To date, CCM has provided more
than $656,000 in (rent/utilities)
financial relief to over 700
households averaging $936 per
household.
Ninety-one percent (91%) of those
requests are COVID related. More
than half (52%) are first time
requests with CCM.
CCM is committed to continue delivering a very high level of crisis relief
through the end of 2020 and into 2021!

HOUSING
IS KEY
As we persevere the current economic crisis, we must choose to address the need
for emergency and extremely low fixed-income housing in Cabarrus County. We must
expand our resources to stabilize households and restore healthy lives.
Please join our Housing Initiative
Mallory's Story
Years of enduring verbal and emotional
abuse, which she justified for the sake of
the children, led to bouts of anxiety and
depression. When her husband decided
he did not want to be married anymore,
the painful reality released her from the
emotional entrapment. Feeling helpless
and very much alone, Mallory turned to My
Father’s House for a place for herself and
her two children.
She had a good job and paid most of the
household bills, including the car payment.
Her desire for her children to continue
their relationship with their father was her
reason for an attempt to reconcile with her
husband only to see the abuse intensify.
Mallory returned to CCM and progressed to
the Mothers & Children housing program.
Mallory began focusing on the priorities
that would stabilize life for herself and her
children. One of Mallory's goals was to
establish their own home where her two
children could have their own rooms.
Today Mallory and her children are building
stability in their three bedroom home in
CCM's Teaching Housing program. While
managing her finances and providing for
her family, Mallory has paid off her car and
other related debts, improved her income
and saved significant dollars as part of her
plan to achieve housing independence for
herself and her family.
"Give thanks to the LORD for He is good; His love endures forever."
I Chronicles 16:34

HELP US MAKE THE HOLIDAYS HAPPIER!
THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND
The Empty Stocking Fund was founded
over 80 years ago to provide families in
need with Christmas gifts or gift cards
and to offer additional support and
assistance through our family adoption
program and utility fund.
SENIOR CARE & SHARE
SHOEBOXES
Many seniors live on fixed incomes. A
Senior Care & Share Shoebox spreads
holiday cheer to someone who may
not have much to look forward to this
time of the year.
You can adopt a family, or simply drop
off a gift card to be given to a family in
need, at our Crisis Center located at 246
Country Club Dr. NE Concord.
The deadline to adopt a family for
Christmas is December 20th.
The deadline to deliver shoeboxes
to CCM is December 7.
For more information about how to
pack and deliver your shoebox, please
contact our Volunteer Coordinator,
Lorie Williams
LWilliams@cooperativeministry.com
704-490-4245
If you are interested in adopting a
family, please contact our Volunteer
Coordinator, Lorie Williams
LWilliams@cooperativeministry.com
704-490-4245
If you would like to help with utilities
during the holidays, please send your
donation to:
CCM, PO Box 1717
Concord NC 28026-1717
On the memo line of your check, please
write "Utility Assistance."

If you missed our Celebrate Hope virtual
event, we recorded it for you! Watch on
YouTube, Facebook or go to our website and
see the amazing stories of HOPE. Click the
links below:
THANK YOU!
SHOE SHOW, INC. and Bob & Carolyn Tucker
for your amazing generosity with this year's Celebrate HOPE event!
We specialize in small and large repairs, renovations,
and restorations for residential and commercial properties.
VISIT: R2Rcanhelp.com
"Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever." — I Chronicles 16:34
246 Country Club Drive NE, PO Box 1717
Concord, NC 28026 TEL: 704-786-4709
GIVE ONLINE: www.CooperativeMinistry.com or TEXT: ccmhelps to 44321