Vision 22

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The Vision Behind Vision 22

One of the impetuses for this vision is our city’s perennial struggle with concentrated poverty and its effects.  Since the Brookings Institution published its concentrated poverty study in late 2005, Fresno has made minimal progress related to this issue and has continued to battle the effects of our city’s condition.  The blame for our lack of progress can be assigned to many, but amidst our struggles there are many who have devoted themselves to seeing Fresno flourish. 

Vision 22 celebrates those efforts and believes that perhaps the greatest movement is still to come.  It is a movement that is not focused on the concentration of poverty, but on the concentration of “light.” 

This “light” emanates from the Body of Christ in Fresno, joined together and actively pursuing God’s vision for our twenty-two neighborhoods of concentrated poverty as well as for our entire city.