UMOJA STAGE 1-5

By Sion Foundation
 STAGE 2: Envisioning
the Community

NAME OF STAGE MATERIAL SOURCES

Stage 0: Laying Foundation Foundations of Discipleship The Navigators
for Development
STAGE 3: Dreaming
Stage 1: Envisioning
the Dream the UMOJA Facilitators Guide Tearfund
Church
Stage 2: Envisioning the STAGE 5: Reflection
Community and Evaluation

Stage 3: Dreaming the Dream STAGE 4:

Stage 4: Action Plan Action Plan

Stage 5: Evaluation
STAGE 1: Envisioning
the Church
STAGE 0: Laying
Foundation
 THE OBJECTIVES OF MODUL
1. Meet the church leaders and plan how
Envisioning the Church
the church will be envisioned.
2. The church understand and think about
the challenges of working together.
3. The church reflect on what this means
for their own church and community.
4. Carry out the celebration activity which
looks at the history of the church and
community.
5. Set up a church co-ordination group
(CCG).
Envisioning the Church Part 1: Envisioning the church
Step 1: Meeting the Church Leaders
Step 2: Energiser - Thinking about the
challenge of working together
Step 3: Bible Study The story of Bartimaeus
Step 4: Celebration activity - Celebrating
our history
Step 5: Setting up a church co-ordination
group (CCG)
Envisioning the Church Part 2: Using our resources
Step 1: Energiser - Making the longest line
Step 2: Bible studies - The raising of Lazarus
+ Elisha and the jars
Step 3: Celebration activity - Celebrating
what we have
Step 4: Assessing what the church needs
and what the church has
 Part 3: Local church initiative
Envisioning the Church Step 1: Energiser - The big container
Step 2: Bible study
Step 3: The minibus exercise
Step 4: Set up a small team to run the
project

Part 4: Learning and reflection

Reflecting Step 1: Envisioning the church
Reflecting Step 2: Using our resources
Reflecting Step 3: Local church
initiative
 THE OBJECTIVES OF MODUL
1. Build a relationship with the community and
Envisioning the community leaders.
Community 2. Planning the first community meeting. At the
start of the meeting, explain the purpose of
Umoja and its benefits to the community
3. Use the ‘Starting the fire’ activity and the
‘Crossing the river’ activity to explore the
principles of working together as a community.
4. Make a list of how you want to work together
as a community.
5. Select and train the local co-ordination group
(LCG).
 Part 1: How should we work with our
Envisioning the community
Community Step 1: Building a relationship with the
community
Step 2: Planning the first community
meeting
Step 3: Bible study
Step 4: Activities - Crossing the River
Step 5: List of how we want to work
together as a community
Step 6: Selecting and training the local
co-ordination group (LCG)
 Part 2: Describing the community
Step 1: Bible Study - Nehemiah inspects
Envisioning the the walls
Community Step 2: Tools for describing your
community
a. Community mapping tool (page 70)
b. The history of our community
(page 71)
c. Community history picture (page
72)
d. Seasonal calendars (page 73)
e. Who does what in our
community? (page 75)
f. Drama (page 77)
g. Ranking (page 78)
Step 3: Setting up an information
 Part 3: Gathering information
Envisioning the Step 1: Exploring attitudes to gathering
Community information
Step 2: Methods of gathering
information
Step 3: Tables and questions for
information gathering Introduction
Envisioning the Part 4: Analysis of information
Community Step 1: Bible study - Making space for
others
Step 2: Presentation of information Step
3: Discussion
Step 4: Ranking the priorities
Step 5: Deeper analysis
Step 6: Writing up the information

Part 5: Learning and reflection

 THE OBJECTIVES OF MODUL
1. To allow some time for everyone to dream
Dreaming the about the best way to meet the needs thathave
Dream been identified in the community.
2. The aim is to help the group think through in
more detail the community project they want to
do. This is so that there is a clear
understanding of what is involved and so there
is ownership by the church and the community.
3. To help the community set goals and develop
an action plan.
4. To review and reflect back on what has worked
well and what could have been done better in
the way they have learnt and worked together.
Dreaming the
Dream Part 1: Dreaming dreams
Step 1: Bible study - Hope for the future
Part 2: Clarifying what to do next
Step 1: Bible study
Isaiah’s vision
Step 2: The dream triangle
Step 3: Going to market
 Part 3: Planning for action and
Dreaming the organising ourselves
Dream Step 1: Bible study - Walking on the
water
Step 2: The minibus exercise
Step 3: Project planning tables
Step 4: Planning roles and responsibilities
Step 5: Scenarios
Step 6: Reviewing the plans
Step 7: Structure for running the project
Part 4: Learning and reflection
Taking Action THE OBJECTIVES OF MODUL
1. To help a project working group consider all
the essential aspects of the day to day running
of a project.
2. Activities and tools for helping a group run and
manage a community project. The activities
and tools should not be done all in one go but
selected as appropriate for your situation..
 1. Bible study
2. Clarifying the purpose of the project
Taking Action and the priority tasks
3. How to monitor your project
4. How should we delegate?
5. Managing and valuing people
6. How to keep ourselves motivated
7. Building a team
8. How to have an effective meeting
9. How to keep others informed
10. Keeping project records
11. Taking specialist advice
12. Learning and reflection
Evaluation
THE OBJECTIVES OF MODUL
1. Accountability to community members who are
receiving a service and to project supporters
who are providing money or other resources.
2. Learning how we can improve what we are
doing
Evaluation
1. The Purpose of evaluation
2. Questions and tools for doing an
evaluation
3. What is next?
4. Final thoughts