Vision
… is to assist churches of all denominations, all over the world, in establishing expanding networks of small groups that will effectively “equip God’s people to do His work, and build up the church, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love” (Ephesians 4:12,16).
Goal
… is to form an expanding team of international coach-consultants to help churches of every denomination to understand and appreciate the worth and critical importance of expanding networks of small groups operating in the life of their churches … engaging the members of their congregation in ministry and mission, in the power of the Holy Spirit and through the proper exercise of their gifts.
Objectives
When we launched CCI in February, 2008, our objectives were to:
1. Contract with three churches in the Gold Coast area of Australia to provide close consulting and coaching support .
We’ve established consulting relationships with three churches in the Gold Coast region of Australia. We are working with them - we have raised up leaders and have begun to implement the Small Groups Development Plan, and are seeing very encouraging results.
2. Establish a small groups training and resource center on the Gold Coast to serve churches Australia-wide.
We are still in the ‘ideas’ phase of this project but hope to commence more concrete work to establish this later this year or in early 2012.
3. With the help of our partners around the world, we plan to translate CCI’s Small Groups Development training manual and Growing Up into His Likeness into various languages, including Greek, Finish, Polish, Romania, Portuguese, French and Arabic.
We have completed a complete revision (and publication) of the Small Groups Development Plan and have (at the request of a partner ministry) produced a Russian language version that is now being used in Russia and Lithuania and a Polish version was published in June 2011. We also have an Arabic translation being worked on.
4. Build an expanding team of globally based CCI field coach-consultants to help churches understand, adopt, adapt and apply small group principles in the building of authentic community, godly-leaders, and the Kingdom of God.
At the moment CCI has field coach-consultants in the UK and Nigeria as well as experienced Associate Directors in the USA, Australia, Sudan and Cairo. We have been praying for new team members to be called to serve as CCI’s representatives in Poland to serve churches and ministries in Eastern Europe.
5. Invite financially enabled individuals, churches and other church development organisations to invest in CCI’s ongoing development in several financially challenged countries around the world, providing opportunities for them to invest in such churches, prayerfully and financially.
We have carried out a lot of research and investigation into how best CCI can offer Kingdom Investment opportunities to our friends around the world and visitors to our website. The coming months will see some developments in this area and if you would like to know more, please subscribe to receive our regular updates through the website.
6. Develop the CCI website so that we can provide, within the comfortable reach of every church around the globe, online information and access to teaching and training resources.
We are really encouraged by the interest that has been developed in the website and our growing subscriber base (who receive regular updates by email). On average we get between 1,500 and 2,000 visitors a month and have a newsletter database of around 500 people.
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