Caring For Those Who Serve

CCPI Update

March 2012

U.S. CBO Role

• Thank you!

• $11 million of the $23.5 million raised

has come through U.S. boards of pensions

and their recommended annual conference

petitions/actions

Focus of the CCPI

• Retirement funding for today’s

retirees and surviving spouses

• Help central conferences develop

self-sustaining pension plans

for their future

What Are the Central Conferences?

• Outside the U.S. 72 annual conferences organized into

seven central conferences

• Three continents: Africa

Europe

Asia

• 4.4 million members and growing!

• 8,900 active clergy

• 1,300 retirees

• 1,400 surviving spouses

Plan Development

• 13 pension plans

• Develop plans that are:

Self-funded

Self-governed

Self-sustaining into the future

Project Update

Plans started: • Liberia

• Mozambique

• Angola

• Sierra Leone

• Cote d’Ivoire

• Zimbabwe

• Russia

• Nigeria

Plans pending:

• Central and

Southern Europe

• Congo

• East Africa

• Estonia

• Philippines

CCBO Forum—Johannesburg September 2011

Sessions on: • Sustainability

• Accurate record-keeping

• Transparency

Project Update

Now providing funds to: • 492 retirees

• 645 surviving spouses

To date: • $23.5 pledged—$19.5 million received

• $1.55 million distributed from earnings

on donated funds

• Ongoing evaluations conducted

for each plan

The Faces of CCPI Retirees

The Reverend Naftal Taimo Nhavotso

The Faces of CCPI Retirees

Mrs. Salida Jamela,

Surviving Spouse

Fundraising

• $25+ million challenge goal

• $23.5 in gifts and pledges raised to date

Thank you!

U.S. CBO Role—Ways to Support

• Tithe from earnings

• Equivalent of Cokesbury check

• Gift of a specific amount

• Annual conference session

Special offering

CCPI presentation

• Invite us to your CBOP meeting

www.ccpi-umc.org