CCT Flashcards
What is Church & Community Transformation?
CCT helps the local church to meet the needs of the local community.
What are the two ways in which the local church meets the needs of its local community?
The local church can serve the local community through service provision e.g. shelter in a disaster, or medical care, or care for orphans etc. and through empowerment e.g. self-help groups, preventative training (child protection, domestic violence, & health).
To date, how many churches across 36 countries have been mobilised to transform their communities?
To date, more than 14,468 churches have been mobilised to transform their communities.
Why use the local church to bring transformation to a community?
The church is uniquely placed to bring complete and lasting transformation through a holistic strategy which meets people’s social, environmental, spiritual, and emotional needs.
In 2001, in which country was CCT first run?
This new approach was piloted in Tanzania by the Diocese of Mara.
What was accomplished in the first pilot project?
A nursery and a primary school were created.
What was the process called in 2005?
CCM - Church & Community Mobilisation.
In which four countries was CCM run in 2005?
Kenya, southern Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
What was the name of the training manual created to enable Tearfund’s partners to replicate the approach globally?
Umoja (Swahili for “togetherness”).
What was the name of the network set up by Tearfund and its partners to strengthen and spread CCM methodologies?
Friends of Umoja.
By 2014, CCM was taking place in how many countries?
By 2014, CCM was taking place in 41 countries worldwide.
By 2014, how many people had CCM transformed?
By 2014, CCM had contributed to the transformation of around 10 million people.
What are Tearfund’s three corporate priorities?
CCT, economic and environmental sustainability, and fragile states.
What are Tearfund’s five key areas of technical expertise?
Food security, HIV & AIDS, livelihoods, resilience, and water and sanitation.
What is the sixth key area of technical expertise that Tearfund will be developing?
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.
What else is Tearfund enabling and equipping the local church to do with its community?
To advocate at a local level on local issues.
CCT has benefited how many people so far?
6,250,000 people.
What are the two main programmes of CCT?
Church Mobilisation (CM) & Church and Community Mobilisation (CCM).
What is Church Mobilisation (CM)?
CM is about mobilising the local church and/or denominations to respond to the needs of their community.
What is Church & Community Mobilisation (CCM)?
CCM is the process where the local church works with its local community to identify and respond to their needs together.
How much of CCT is CCM?
70%.
How many people around the world do not have regular access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food?
Approximately 2 billion people (26.4%) around the world do not have regular access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food.
How many people are living with HIV or AIDS around the world?
36.9 million people.
How many people die each year from AIDS?
1 million people die each year from AIDS.
What is a livelihood?
A livelihood is a person’s means of securing the basic necessities of life.
What is resilience?
Psychological resilience is the ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly.
How many people around the world live without access to safe sanitation?
2.0 billion people around the world live without access to safe sanitation.
How many people do not have access to clean drinking water?
844 million people do not have access to clean drinking water.
How many pence in every pound goes to mobilising the local church?
9p in every pound goes to mobilising the local church.
