Church and community mobilisation involves mobilising a local church to act as a facilitator in mobilising the whole community to address their own needs.

This approach is different from the ‘church mobilisation’ approach because, once the local church is mobilised, it becomes a facilitator rather than the provider. The local church seeks to envision and empower community members to identify and respond to their own needs, rather than meeting those needs for them. The local church therefore works with rather than for the community. The community is in control. The local church can provide ongoing support to the community, and the community may call upon Christian organisations for technical support where necessary. 

Click on these links for information about church and community mobilisation:

• A comparison of church mobilisation and church and community mobilisation (PDF 39 KB)
• Key principles of church and community mobilisation
• Training resources for church and community mobilisation
• Church-based community mobilisation models in East and Southern Africa – a report comparing a number of different mobilisation models (PDF 444 KB)
• How to integrate local-level advocacy into church and community mobilisation (CCM) processes – CCM advocacy guide – English (PDF 468 KB), French (PDF 439 KB), Spanish (PDF 436 KB), Portuguese (PDF 443 KB)
• Church and community mobilisation in Africa (PDF 1.2 MB)
• Church and community mobilisation in Africa (Video)
• Church and community mobilisation process: Facilitator’s Manual (PDF 6 MB)

Communities can be mobilised in a variety of ways. This section explores two models of church and community mobilisation:

1. Issue-focused church and community mobilisation
2. Open-ended church and community mobilisation