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Brief History
Vision
Chennai Transformation Network is committed to seeing an on going process of serving and transforming Greater Chennai by every means possible through an effective witnessing community in every neighborhood, people groups and all spheres of society.
Motto
Working together for a better Chennai!
Model
The whole CHURCH taking the whole GOSPEL to the whole CITY.
Transformation
Transformation is a process by which the whole church takes the whole gospel to the whole city so that the power, the peace and the presence of God is experienced by every individual who is reconciled to God, to one another and to the environment that brings economic sufficiency, social peace, public justice and national righteousness.
Patrons
Comprehensive Strategy
- Introduction: Chennai being a city of 8 million people and spread out over a vast area will require a comprehensive strategy so that transformation reaches into every area of the city. These areas include the following.
- Geographical: The Chennai Metropolitan Area is divided into 155 wards (Corporation Area), 306 villages in 10 Panchayat Unions, 28 Town Panchayats, 8 Municipalities and 1 cantonment and covers an extent of 1177 sq.km.
- Our Networks: We envision networks in every ward and within every municipality, panchayat and neighborhoods of Greater Chennai.
- People Group: Sindhi, Jains, Eunuchs, physically challenged people, etc.
- Generation Groups: Youth, Elderly, Yuppies, etc.
- Language Groups: Tamil, English, Telegu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati.
- Professional Groups: Information Technology, Call Centers, Medical, etc.
- Areas of Influence: Arts, Business, Media, Education, Government, Law, Police, Politicians, etc.
- Economic Groups: Upper Class, Middle Class, Lower Income.
Process of Transformation
Transformation is aided by the following processes being in full operation. - Envisioning
- For transformation to take place thousands of people need to be envisioned with the potential of what they can do in helping in the process.
- Videos, Manuals, large gatherings, one to one talks, discussion groups, prayer, and consultations will need to be an ongoing process that will envision strategic people who want to get involved in working together.
- Tracks
- Prayer Track
- Youth Track
- Family Track
- Social Action Track
- Church Growth and Mobilization/Saturation Church Planting Track
- Laity Track (Building Movements among Influential Segments)
- Christian Arts Track
- Social Reformation Track
- Sports Track
- Children's Track
- Research
- To gain an accurate understanding.
- Harvest Force Data which records how many churches are presently in the city.
- Case studies could also be done on each ward that shows where the church is growing and why.
- Crime Mapping is another strategy that can be utilized to see what problems are taking place.
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