Leadership

Leading like Jesus is the goal of many women and men. Whether you lead a household, a small group, a church, or manage your team at work, Jesus’ serving-first style was anything but weak. His investment of love and time over 3 years into a few men, prepared them to launch and steward what has become the largest and most influential community of faith in the world for 18 centuries.

We set up an empty chair in our meetings, inviting God to take a seat as our Leader. Our men and women are trustworthy, solid, and faithful. Yet our founder sets the tone of open confession of sins of commission and omission–good days and bad ones are common to us all and we find his light cast into the broken places at times. We have each other’s back because we share the passion to serve Jesus when no one notices.

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”           — Malachi 4:5-6

A Spiritual Investment multiplied into a mighty Spiritual harvest–and creating a significant Economic ROI

From Pastor Dongo Namono, East Uganda,

Before the Warrior course came to us from Kenyan Coordinators–most of ourfamilies were near starving. Mhy fellow pastors and I were eating one small portion of cornmeal each 2 days, so my wife and children could have one portion each day. But the story of a very poor farmer named Gideon filled my heart with strength and hope! The next day as the Kenyan teachers showed us how to mulch weeds and stubble–and add in animal manure, we all were filled with hope to change our lives.

The first season my meager crop was some better, but the next season it was double! Each year since . . .more

2020 Annual Report

Core 300 International is a California 501c3 Training and Development non-profit organization in good standing with Federal and State Governments.

Board of Directors, Core 300 International

Art Hobba – Founder and Chairman of Core 300 and Principle Based Leadership (PBL), Art has a unique blend of business leadership and pastoral experience and perspectives. He was a church planter and senior pastor for 14 years. He also has 2 years of experience serving in executive roles for several companies including 2 public technology companies and a global accounting firm. He founded Transcende in 2001, where he integrated Psycho-sociology and cultural transformation into a unique consulting and coaching firm serving mid-market to Fortune 500 companies until he retired and began serving Core 300 full-time in 2017.

Rev. Hobba wrote the popular men’s book “Called to War“, and Core 300’s boot-camp-style curricula, The Warrior, The Priest, and The King. Art and his wife Sharon have 5 grown sons, 2 daughters-in-law, 2 grandsons, and two granddaughters. more

Rev. Wycliffe Mudavadi – Director and Treasurer, also serves Core 300’s  Daughter ministry Principle Based Leadership (PBL) in Africa as Treasurer. graduating as a Building Science major, he spent the first 20 years in the role of architect and designer, working for the Kenyan government and later as a private practitioner. With her degree in Education, she is a contributing author for our new women’s curricula in development, The Warrior, Woman of God. Long called for in women’s prisons and by multitudes of wives. Married to Juliet, they have 8 beautiful children, where she mentors pastor’s wives when not managing a very busy home and orchard. They live outside the city of Bungoma, Kenya

Rev. Barack Nyongesa – Director, has served Core 300’s  Daughter ministry, Principle Based Leadership (PBL) in Kenya as our operational Executive Director. Barack is a Co-founder of PBL, along with Rev. Alex Achuti and Rev. Art Hobba, and he also helps support our newer work in Uganda. An experienced pastor and expert farmer, Barack launched our Native-led leadership training initiatives in 2013 right after Core 300 came to Bungoma, Kenya.Holistic Ministry. An entrepreneur, Barack also launched our Holistic Ministry and Farms for Life which currently has produced some $15 million dollars worth of produce and farm-to-market increase, and has empowered 9,000 poor smallholder farmers to expand into agribusiness and provide school fees and improved nutrition for Kenyan and Ugandan families. Married to Mercy, they have 6 children together and live on a farm in Busia, Kenya

David Piester – Director of Development, has worked as an outsourced Senior Global Sales Officer and management consultant to software tech firms. His primary focus is to lead and advise large sales enterprises on their data journey and show sizable ROI. As a disciple of Jesus for two decades, Dave is a devoted single father of two adult daughters and a son in High School. For the last decade, he has been an ambassador and team leader to care for the marginalized. He has traveled to developing nations such as India and Uganda, working with the Calvary Chapel organization on the ground in sports ministry, and other humanitarian projects for alleviating the plight of the poor in the Name of Jesus Christ. He lives in Carlsbad, California

US Advisory Board, Core 300

We are blessed with an active, multi-talented and godly team of advisors. Some of these Advisors also regularly attend our Board Meetings, contributing their ideas and tactical and strategic perspectives.

Anthony Barton – has been a close friend of our Founder and to Core 300. His passion for awakening and developing men is only exceeded by his gift for connecting like-hearted, action-oriented people together for the purpose of loving and bettering the human condition worldwide. Anthony Founded and led The A Specialists, selling the company in 2018, a founded Safe Kitchens soon thereafter. He and his family share a deep passion and calling to Africa. He lives in Agoura with his wife, Yolanda and they have 3 children together.

Dr. Glenn Burris – As a new retiree from the high office of President of Foursquare International, Glenn has been a friend and advisor to Art over the last years and helpful with key introductions to create synergies between Core 300 and his movement.

John D. Tayloe – John has over 30 years in international and US radio broadcasting experience, many in executive leadership. He founded and serves “Voice of Hope” as President. John and his wife Heather also founded Strategic Communications Group in 1998, a ministry vision that is ever-expanding. Strategic Communications Group’s purpose is to “reach the world, with God’s Word, through radio”, and their coverage exceeds 500 million people per day–many of whom are Muslim. Their African station covers 75% of the continent. John and Heather live with their children in Moorpark, California.

Core 300, Kenya and Uganda

Principle Based Leadership

“PBL” was registered as an NGO Association with the Kenyan government in 2014 by founder Art Hobba and native co-founders Barack Nyongesa and Alex Achuti. PBL Uganda was founded in 2022 and is in process of doing the same

As a prolific grassroots training institution, most of the operations budget is funded by the US parent organization through monthly Grants by Core 300 International. Today, its Board of Directors operates the growing community of 1400 national volunteer Coordinators who are tasked with responding to the movement of the Holy Spirit among male leaders and their families in both nations.

Operating as our “boots on the ground,” PBL is a close-knit band of Brothers who live in the spirit of trust, mutual submission, and in the unity and oversight of Core 300. Communication via WhatsApp is daily in a fruitful and collaborative partnership. Approximately 85% of the income of Core 300 Intl. is directed towards supporting PBL, each year. However, self-sustainability via entrepreneurial farm science, adult education, and new business incubation are already in place. All programs aim to generate self-sustainability and missional investments that will carry the lion’s share of operational costs as we expand toward Central and Eastern Africa in years ahead.

Our Programs

Hard-Time Cons now Jesus’ Disciples                                                                                                                                                                                               9,050                                                                                                                                                                                         

Jiggers Clinics sends 8,045 back to School

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

  

Church Leaders Training & Discipleship 29,000

8,000 Small Farms come to Life with 300% Yield Increases                                                                                                                                                                by Farms for LIfe                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Economic and Entrepreneurial Development was begun in 2021 in Western Kenya through US “Investor” dollars into a seed fund named SIMBA Ventures. 15 new business initiatives are underway and doing well

Principal Based Leadership (PBL) Kenya, Board of Directors

Rev. Alex Achuti – Co-founder and Director, and Co-Founder of the PBL movement with Barack, Alex is a skilled counselor, pastor, and savvy entrepreneur–adding to our skillset as men frequently have to rebuild their lives–especially as Ex-cons. As a skilled personal coach, he has mentored and even sponsored some of our young men into successful business start-ups. As one of our most animated and effective teachers, he and Barack went out–just the 2 of them–to many West-Kenyan and East-Ugandan rural locations putting on the first 100 of our Warrior Conferences for pastors and church leaders, establishing this ministry as potent, transformative, and trustworthy. He gives in Bungoma with his wife Joy, son, daughter and two grandchildren

Mdm. Rose Andange – Director, and Team Leader of Government Affairs – Semi-retired today, Rose has worked in Nairobi in central government positions of upper management for the last 3 decades. Thus she has deep connections and experience navigating the halls of bureaucracy within Kenya’s highest offices–opening doors and providing access to our senior leaders to develop partnerships and pilot programs in Bungoma County and elsewhere. Rose lives with her husband Frank and their adult son training for a career in minsitry

Rev. Art Hobba, Founder and Chairman, See above description

Rev. Wycliffe Mudavadi – Treasurer and Director, serves  PBL as Treasurer. graduating as a Building Science major, he spent the first 20 years in the role of architect and designer, working for the Kenyan government, and later as a private practitioner. . Wycliffe is highly gifted with numbers and data, he has been an instrumental addition to the Board leadership at PBL and is our newest member of the US Board as of Spring 2021.

Bish. Vincent Mugun Executive Director..Vincent leads the overall operations for PBL in East Africa. His calling to Core 300 first came during a three-day pastor’s conference in his hometown of Mt. Elgon, Kenya.  With 5 other West-Kenyan Board Members, he oversees 190 certified Pastor-Coordinators spread over 4 of Kenya’s 9 Regions. He also manages the rollout, and our Prison rehabilitation partnership with the Kenyan government for all 109 prisons in Kenya, In addition to these responsibilities, he is the Founding Bishop of 19 churches–with each pastor serving under him for a season, where he continues to advise and provide oversight as needed. He is married to Teresa, who also works on the writing team of The Warrior, Woman of God. They have 5 children and 5 grandchildren together.

Rev. Barack Nyongesa – Co-founder and Director, Co-Founder, and Lead Coordinator of all Holistic Helps ministries, is a farming expert that has brought Holistic training to 15,000 men over the last 6 years–launching our Jiggers Clinics, Healthcare and Nutrition initiatives as well as serving as one of our best teachers. From 2013-2015, he and Alex went out–just the 2 of them–to many locations putting on the first 100 of our Warrior Conferences for pastors and church leaders, establishing this ministry as potently reproductive, transformative, and trustworthy in the Western Region of Kenya and Eastern Uganda. Barack is a farmer and associate pastor at the local church he and his wife Mercy, and their 6 children attend together.

Rev. Jacob Sudi – Director, serves PBL (Core 300) as Director and Secretary. He has been very effective at finding men and developing them into Coordinators and currently leads p to 3 of our 10-man  Cluster Groups of Coordinators in the Mount Elgon Region. He and his wife Grace founded and serve their growing local church

Rev. Augustine Wesonga – Director, Lead Coordinator of Motor Wings and Jigger Clinics, he has a keen business mind and feels sincere that his greatest privilege is to kneel before and cure children and the elderly of rancid Jigger infestations. He serves a local church with his wife Edna, and they have 6 children together

Principle Based Leadership (PBL) Uganda, Board of Advisors

Joseph Ejobi, Director of Operations

Rev. Timothy Pancras, Director and  Lead Teacher

Bishop Vincent Mugun, Executive Director, PBL Kenya

Rev. Craig Linquist, Founder, Calvary Chapel, Entebbe

Rev. Fred, Lead Pastor, Calvary Chapel Entebbe

Stewardship

Field Data Acquisition, Reporting, and Research

Early into our movement’s arrival in Kenya, our founders established and maintained a culture of excellence, regarding financial best practices, accountability, and leadership values. Field data (activities, results, and impact) gathering and reporting formats–and more recently–research and metrics, are being developed to validate the quality and “shelf-life” of the 32,000  transformed families through our training, development, and Holistic Helps ministries.

In 2019, one of our international Board Members created and implemented the Wives’ Survey tool to confidentially record the graduates’ wive’s observations and opinions regarding the changes in her husband since he graduated from the Warrior Course. We also created one for those men who had completed both the Warrior and Priest. The 5 Rater Statements and 2-page summary report can be downloaded here.

Our Team on the ground began conducting Confidential Wives Surveys with the spouses of the Men who had graduated from the Warrior and the Priest Course (Figure 1) as well as those whose husbands had just completed the Warrior course a few months earlier.  Five rater statements were formed to capture the key virtues of a man’s behavior in his Culture–and ones that were, in large regard almost non-existent in most African men today.

The wives of the more mature cohort ranked their husband–when averaging rater scores together–found as either”Improved” or “Much Improved”  95.5% over their state of behavior p[prior to taking the first Warrior course.

Although the tendencies recorded for both groups of wives were the same, the scores on the recent graduates were, on average, about 5-15% lower than the men who had been walking in their new life–with the freedoms and principles of the Holy Spirit and both courses for some years.

 

2013 to 2020 Impact Statistical Summary

Financial Stewardship

For the last 8 years, the modest financial support raised by Core 300 of a little more than $500,000 (85% of which went directly to this mission), the above results were literally impossible to achieve by any stretch of the imagination. Though all of us gave the best of our sweat equity and labor to this effort, none of the US or African team members were prepared by education or international mission experience to contribute a significant level of talent. Pause and consider with us what we know to be true: The only explanation of the string of successes and logic-defying opportunities placed before us is that this is a sovereign movement of God. All of the glory for any accomplishments or good fortune must therefore be given to God alone. For” it is in Him that we live and move, and have our being” –Acts 17:28

Economic ROI

Although it is impossible to measure the amount of gross wealth that has been generated through the efforts of our mission, in consideration of the testimonials of business successes and agricultural yield increases reported to be between 200-800%–and rising–there is clearly a very real and practical economic accelerator that was ignited into our constituents. Equipped with a transformed and entrepreneurial mind and the breakthrough farming knowledge conveyed to 16,000 men–applying an overall rise in work-ethic in 94% of the Wives’ Surveys, our efforts applied in situ have given these 24,000 men who are non incarcerates–and their respondent families, we have attempted to gauge a number in US Dollars of how much wealth has been generated that would not have been there if God had not brought us. Using the average household incomes of both Kenya and Uganda, our estimate of the return on investment for these 16,000 holistically trained head of households close to 1,000,000 USD

Since 2013, over $600,000 in financial support and Spiritual “Capital” of prayer, vision, and leadership has been invested by our donors, volunteers, and staff into PBL by godly men and women of prayer and action. Thus there has been a 200% capital gain in Kingdom-based growth and transformation earned by our supporters–and re-invested into skills development, farming, new business development, children’s and family health, and education!

Though many more things have been and are being done by the Holy Spirit that cannot be put into a spreadsheet, the multigenerational impact among some 200,000 children today–in such a short time–the fruits of godly hard work, and the faith-producing hope they will bear into future generations has awakened the power of freedom, innovation, and prosperity fueled by the release of the Kingdom’s assets, righteousness, peace, and joy to the once barren lands and hearts of Kenya-Uganda.

PS – Finally, the evidence of our Wives Surveys and the Ministry Impact numbers—the marriages that have been healed, and the ex-cons who will not be returning to the Hell of the penitentiary are staggering. For our founder–whose calling was to follow the Father in Heaven and serve the cause of the fatherless–and those who have labored by his side with the one Spirit of God, the greatest reward is in the healing of the father-wound in all that come–and the prospect of generations still not yet born, who will not suffer it deadly rejection, abuse, and deserts of unwantedness.

Thank You–for all who have prayed and fasted–and for all who have given. If we shall be known by our fruit, then rich indeed are we all on Earth and in Heaven!

Art Hobba, Chairman and President, Core 300 International, Chairman, PBL

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Recent Financial and Government Reports
  2018   PBL Income and Expense Report 2018
  2019
    -2019 INCOME & EXPENSE
    -2019 990N  
   – 2006 IRS 501c3 Auth Letter
2020
    – 2020 990
– 2020 Functional Expenses 
– 2020 Financial Income and Expense 
Values and Creed
We prescribe to the Nicene Creed (modified to include the Holy Scriptures):
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through Him, all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day, he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy universal and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
We believe in the power of the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, inerrant in its original writing, God-breathed and written down by anointed mortal men in service to God by the Holy Spirit; The Word is discerning, insightful, and illumination into the human heart; He is our Convictor of sin; Builder of faith; Bearer of sorrows; Physician-healer, Bread of Life for our spiritual nutrition, and our Light and General into victorious warfare. And our Holy Spirit uses it to apply it all to the seeking human heart and mind to instruct us in righteousness, grace, love, and truth.
  • The Flesh, or carnal human nature
  • The world system
  • The Devil and his minions
All of which were overcome by Christ in us, if we walk in Him.
Values
Core 300 was founded with Axiometric Principles installed in its core. Axiometry is the Science of Values, and Values-based Leadership guides what we stand for, how we treat our own and serve others. Our Core Values are woven into every thread of who we are and the organization we are becoming.
Integrity
Courage
Love
Unity
Creativity
Family
Church
Financial Leadership
Integrity is derived from the Latin word integritas, used for wholeness, unity, excellence, oneness, and complete. This is the quality of heart and excellence in execution that has been embraced by our Stakeholders, Staff, Volunteers, and service professionals.
Transparency is an important value for us. Our books are open to any interested investor or Partner. We are committed to transparency in all we do. We subscribe to Intelligent Philanthropy, which has evaluated our annual financials and ministry results and accounting for the last 6 years. Recently we have joined GuideStar as well as other validating organizations.
Email of write us mailto:freeman@core300.org questions you may have regarding our operations, policies, and accountability.

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