CCMP and the Light Wheel

Tearfund believes that when God created the world, humankind experienced only perfect relationships; with God, ourselves, with others, and with creation. In the Fall, those relationships were broken – and it is this brokenness that we believe causes all poverty. God’s mission, seen throughout the Bible, is to restore these relationships. This is made possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus. The mission of the church is to participate in this restoration, and when all four broken relationships are impacted, we call this holistic or integral mission. This is the calling of all Christians: to live out their faith in all areas of life. 

In John 10:10, Jesus said: ‘I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.’

The Light Wheel gives us a framework to help us think in a more practical way about the areas of everyday life we must consider if we want to see relationships restored and lives transformed ‘to the full’. It is made up of nine aspects of wellbeing that are depicted as spokes on a wheel to demonstrate their interconnectedness. The Light Wheel ensures that change is understood more deeply and holistically than just physical and spiritual change, and recognises that all these different aspects make up the total wellbeing of a person or community.

The objective of the church and community mobilisation process is ‘to empower people to transform their situations holistically, using their God-given local resources’. The aspects of wellbeing can be used as indicators to ensure that this objective is met. In order to transform a community holistically, CCMP must impact all nine aspects of wellbeing.