The Three-in-One Project is central to the strategy that CPCM has adopted for achieiving its goal. It is based on an identification of priority social needs together with practical ways of mobilising the community of God's people to meet these needs by using resources that are readily available. People are becoming encouraged to act as they realise that they themselves are the primary resources that are needed.

Three key problems have been identified for immediate attention. These problems are not abstracted to be dealt with separately, but are treated as three dimensions of a single project. Hence the name "Three-in-One Project" that is summarised in the following diagram:

The identified problems are dealt with in this way, as dimensions of a single problem, because each one affects the other. Health care problems are worsened by inadequate education and poor health hinders the development of adequate educational programmes.

1. The Education Dimension

a. Community Adult Education

The aim of the community education program is to develop a biblically informed world view that is applicable to the contemporary African context, providing a framework within which communities can develop effective ways of dealing with contemporary problems.

This aspect of the educational dimension currently includes the following components:

(i)  

Weekly or daily programmes with significant, identified groups;

(ii)

Monthly training sessions for group leaders;

(iii) 

Annual conferences and training seminars for professionals and other groups with common interests

b. Church-sponsored Schools

Local church groups are being encouraged to establish church-sponsored schools with the aim of providing:

(i)

High quality education with sensitivity to the African worldview governed and shaped by Scripture. This is to equip students with the ability to make a constructive contribution to dealing with contemporary problems affecting Kenyans in particular and Africans in general but within the global context;

(ii)

Spiritual and academic development;

(iii) 

Assisting those unable to obtain an appropriate education due to poverty, including orphans left behind through AIDS or other reasons;

(iv)

Technical skills and amenities for youth development.

c. Community and Public Schools

This is provided through the Pastoral Programme Instruction as provided for by the Ministry of Education. We take this opportunity to influence the pupils, teachers, Boards of Governors and the parents on what we feel is appropriate in the educational context. This includes raising awareness of the issues related to HIV/AIDS.

2. The HIV/Aids Dimension

The issues associated with HIV/AIDS are very complex. In its contribution to dealing with these issues, CPCM is using the following strategies:

(i)

Mobilising the Christian community to assist in Home Based Care for AIDS patients;

(ii)

Moblising families and relatives, as well as the Christian community, to provide support for AIDS orphans;

(iii) 

Participating in workshops, seminars and conferences with a Gospel-oriented focus directed at promoting effective behaviour change in the wider community and fostering changed attitudes that treat HIV/AIDS patients as fellow humans who are persons of worth in the sight of God;

(iv)

Assisting people living with HIV/AIDS to live positively with the problem and direct them to ways in which they can still get involved in the development of community just like anyone else;

(v)

Motivating the community to address the problem of poverty which is recognised as one factor in the HIV/AIDS epidemic;

(vi)

Promoting a youth development agenda that encourages youth to find a fulfilling way of life that does not involve behaviour carrying the risk of HIV infection;

(vii) 

Participate with others of similar views in research on the nature and scope of the epidemic, the best ways of dealing with it and other related areas of concern.

3. The General Health Care Dimension

On the wider issues of health care, which taken together are at least as important as the issues associated with HIV/AIDS, our immediate strategy has two aspects:

a.

Working towards the establishment of a church-sponsored Health Care Clinic with the aims of:

(i)

Providing affordable primary health care;

(ii)

Providing community health education programmes;

(iii) 

Dealing with some of the manageable health problems;

(iv)

Treating AIDS patients with every effort to provide affordable drugs.

b. 

Working towards providing safe, clean water for all within our area of operation.

We are not able to deal with all problems in our community, but we are making a contribution. Watch the news page to keep track of of what we are doing in the fulfilment of this Three-in-One Project.

In the end, we can only do as much as the Lord, through his people, enables us to do by providing the necessary financial support. It is a ministry that we see as an integral part of fulfilling the Apostle's exhortation to proclaim Christ, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom -- Colossians 1:28.

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