1. Pillars of CCMP 
2. CCMP Stages
   • Church Awakening 
   • Church and Community Description.
   • Information Gathering. 
   • Information Analysis. 
   • Decision stage

9 PILLARS OF CCMP

1. Holistic Human Transformation 
2. Relationships
3. Sustainability
4. Empowerment of people 
5. Process rather than product
6. Reaching God given potential
7. Resources
8. Local church transforming immediate community
9. Changed change agents

5 Stages of CCMP

Stage 1: Church Awakening Stage 

This is the first stage of CCMP, based on the principle that the CCMP should begin in the church, where the church first “awakens” before it can go out to “awaken” its immediate community

The church awakening stage begins with envisioning the church leadership and the church. It then takes the church through a set of bible studies that are designed to facilitate the church to draw scriptural principles and to apply them, and thus truly become “salt and light” to its immediate community. The bible studies are divided into three categories, i.e. Foundational bible studies, Resource mobilization bible studies, and Relationship building bible study. Each of these categories is dealt with in separate sections below. 

The Church Awakening Stage falls into four sections, i.e. Envisioning of the church leaders and the church, Foundational bible studies, Resource Mobilization bible studies, and Relationship Building.Overall Expected Outcomes of Church Awakening: 

The following are some of the expected outcomes if the church is truly awakened: 

At the church level– The church will:

• · Understand God’s purpose for His creation and the role the church should play in fulfilling that purpose. 
• · Take care of the environment – plants trees, conserves nature, etc. 
• · Develop a deep concern for its immediate community and takes action accordingly. 
• · Reach out to its immediate community in a holistic manner. 
• · Positively and directly influence decisions that affect the life of its immediate community. 
• · Stir up its immediate community to take responsibility to change positively, hence making a difference in its immediate community. 
• · Understand that the resources available are God-given and motivate its immediate community to appreciate this. 
• · Use the resources that God has given in a responsible and sustainable way. 
• · Meet its needs using the resources available to it, and without having to depend too much on external assistance. 

At the level of individuals– members of the church will: 

• · Understand that God has a special purpose for their lives as individuals. 
• · Begin to use the resources around them in a sustainable way. 
• · Meet their needs and therefore address their poverty with confidence. 
• · Change their perspective of who God is to them. 
• · Perceive themselves to be of value because they are made in the image of God. 
• · Support one another in addressing issues affecting them; join hands to deal with poverty. 

At the community level– The church will influence the community to the extent that the community will: 

·Perceive the church to be relevant to the life of the community. 

·Respond towards God more positively, and hence may begin to appreciate the true God and to worship Him more consciously. 

Stage 2: Church and Community Description 

Introduction 

The church and community description stage is the second of the five stages of CCMP. This stage enables the church and community to answer two important questions, i.e. “Where are we coming from?” and “Who are we today?”. These questions are important because they enable people to examine their history as well as their current situation. The historical perspective (Where are we coming from?) gives people the background that has brought them this far, and informs them of some of the root causes to the situation they are in. The second question (“Who are we today?”) enables the people to examine their current reality and motivates them to begin addressing issues that emerge as they “read” into that reality. 

Expected outcomes 

From the Description, it is expected that the church and community will: 

• · Generate a general baseline of their situation that summarizes all that they have discovered about their situation today. 
• · Articulate their historical background and how it has impacted on the way they live today. 
• · Generate an inventory of all the resources available to them, how they are being used, and how they could be better used to improve the situation and address needs. 
• · Articulate the quality of relationship between people, and with their environment and take responsibility to improve the relationships. 
• · Appreciate the positive aspects of life, progress they are making, and those who have contributed to bring about good change. 
• · Identify issues, challenges and problems that are experienced, and possible solutions to issues affecting them. 
• · Begin to take responsibility and action to transform their situation using the resources available. 

Stage 3: Information Gathering Stage 

The information Gathering stage aims to empower the church and community to investigate their issues deeply so as to emerge with specific information that deeply describes the issues affecting the church and community, and thus enables them to make informed decisions that when implemented will transform their situation. 

Stage 4: Information Analysis Stage 

Introduction 

Information is key to bringing discovery of and a deeper understanding about a situation. Information that the community gathers about their situation is important because it provides tangible evidence about the situation as it is at that particular time. Information may be primary or secondary, quantitative or qualitative, or value-based (describing the values of people), narrative or statistical. In whatever form the information may be, it still provides evidence about the nature of the situation of a community.

Information becomes useful only when it is ORGANIZED and INTERPRETED. Information that has not been organized to satisfy information needs is USELESS 

Stage 5: Decision Stage 

Introduction 

Decision stage is the last of five stages of the CCMP. It is called Decision because it is at this stage that all the major decisions regarding the desired transformation are made. Yes, the church and community have all along the process been making decisions, e.g. church at the Awakening stage decided about the vision, small priority projects to focus on, committees to implement the projects, going out to build relationship with the community, etc. At the Relationship building step of the Church Awakening, the church and community decided to join hands and move on a journey of change, select the CCRePs to “keep the development fire burning”, when the “journey of development” should start, etc. At the Description stage, the church and community decided on the priority issues, to have more specific information, and the system to be used in gathering it. At the Information gathering stage the church and community decided on the validity of the information gathered and when to begin to analyze it. At analysis stage the church and community decided on the major issues that each piece of information analyzed is presenting, and what could be done to address each issue identified. Now at Decision stage, the church and community must consolidate all the decisions that have to do with determining the total transformation that must take place in the church and community, in the short-term as well as the long-term future of the people. The decisions in this change therefore have to do with the total desired change in the lives of the people, as well as the environment that they live in, in addition to the action that the people must take form now hence, in order to actualize this desired change.