At the H.I. India Executive Committee meeting held in Hyderabad
in December 2004, the goal of the special AGM-2005 was spelt
out: “To build a strong and
empowered AGM that would take ‘ownership’ issues
far more seriously”. The goal was substantially
met on the 13th and 14th of May 2005 AGM. Presentations
were kept to a minimum and plenty of opportunity was given
for debate and consensus formation. The AGM members returned
very satisfied with the way the meeting was conducted.
The highlights of the AGM 2005 were as follows:
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Greater involvement and therefore
commitment of the AGM in decisions pertaining to strategy,
operations and budget
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Clear focus on transforming Leaders
at the top, in line with the H.I. ethos and therefore
strategic focus on the cities which are the centers of
influence and the “marketplace”. This was
also the Apostle Paul’s methodology. After 17 years
of ministry in India, over 40% of India’s top 35
cities ( pop > 1 million) do not have a significant
HI presence.
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Focus on National Seminars, SLS, SLS-D
and State Level Seminars as opposed to weekend seminars.
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Appointment of Mr. Ravi Raiborde as
the Regional Director (RD)- West with HQ at Nashik. He
is an International alumnus and ex income tax official.
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Proposed new Region called Central
India comprising MP, Chattishgarh, and Rajasthan etc.
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A new paid position of Area Manager(s)
to work under the leadership of the RD for important states
/ cities.
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AGM to assist National Office in reactivating
inactive Alumni Associations.
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AGM to assist National Office to build
up a pool of 1000 probable participants for National-level
seminars.
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AGM to assist in activating returning
International participants and involving them in the National
ministry
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Release of the H.I. Faculty Manual
and inauguration of the new H.I. India website
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Being election year, election was
conducted to elect new members into the EC. Before that
a resolution was passed in the AGM to increase the EC
strength from 7 to 9 elected members, since the strength
of the AGM had gone up and ministry was growing. Six new
members were elected. Among the newly elected were: Peter
Bazeley, R. Rajkumar, Tom Oommen, Joshua Kandula, Mithra
Satuluri and Valentine Davidar. Mr. Peter Bazeley was
elected as President and Mr. J T A Singh as Treasurer.
An extraordinary meeting of the EC is to be held in Hyderabad
on September 20th.
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An expenditure budget of Rs 60 Lakhs
for the year 2005-2006 was debated and passed.
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Even though there was no all India
Alumni meeting, pledges worth Rs 25 lakhs were raised.
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Seminar Goals for 2005-2006 is 185
which includes 8 NS, 14 SLS, 3 SLSD, 21 SS and 139 LS.
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Ms. Maimunah and Bro Benny Siswanto,
representing the leadership of the H.I. ministry in Indonesia
were sufficiently challenged about building the ministry
in their country.
