What IcFEM Does
IcFEM works by spreading the transformation process to areas by encouraging people to pray and to set up intercessory groups, by sending out the formation team to give the IcFEM vision, by setting up Village Fellowships and establishing Local Transformation Units.
Community development is a skilled process of developing a broad network of interaction in order to increase the capacity of communities to help themselves to achieve a locally sustainable healthy economy and an improved quality of life. Bringing people together in a Fellowship means that the Fellowship will have a vision for the whole village and the individuals living there to enable members to learn to live as God intends, and to develop their skills, faith, attitudes, and understanding. It will be indigenous - no outsider is able to understand the deeper needs of individuals in a community - and it will be able to support itself from local resources.
The Transformation Process ↓
Transformation happens when something is substantially changed in its nature and character. Relief is not transformation; neither is 10,000 people in a crusade meeting raising their hands to follow Jesus Christ. It is a life-long agenda; it concerns the whole of life in which a disciple's mind and character are being transformed by God's Spirit - then their life-style can work itself out in families and communities. (Romans 12.1 and 2, 2 Cor. 3.18, Phil 3.21). IcFEM's Mission statement is to accelerate community transformation and it does so by enabling people to take the initiative and become self-drivers of development transformation comes from within the community through its members.
Some people see development as a dangerous thin edge of the social gospel - a deviation from saving people for the Kingdom; but God is concerned with the whole of life - as Jesus told the people of his home village, his mission was to "preach good news to the poor, release the oppressed, share food, provide shelter, clothe the naked, give sight to the blind" (Luke 4.18-19 and Isaiah 61.1 and 58.6-7 from which he was quoting).
Community development therefore is a skilled process of developing a broad network of interaction in order to increase the capacity of communities to help themselves to achieve a locally sustainable healthy economy and an improved quality of life. Bringing people together in a Fellowship means that the Fellowship will have a vision for the whole village and the individuals living there to enable members to learn to live as God intends, and to develop their skills, faith, attitudes, and understanding. It will be indigenous - no outsider is able to understand the deeper needs of individuals in a community - and it will be able to support itself from local resources. Being poor is not merely a lack of material possession or food but it becomes a poverty of spirit, a lack of belief in self, in ability to change, to achieve, to better one's lot - so this is where IcFEM starts. No one understands transformation better than God and no one can do it better. It is about change for the better (Romans 12:1-2). Change is not about making you to become like me, but about "You" becoming a new "You" or restored to the "You" you would have become - to become better. And what is the key to this change? - learning and education. IcFEM is in the business of creating change and space. It starts with identifying need "sensitisation" which is about identifying what you, the individual, the community need NOT about telling you what you are "going to do" and what you will be given. IcFEM is all about crying with people, identifying with them, standing beside them, showing them the Saviour's love. Do we need transformation in our own communities in other countries? YES WE DO! So maybe IcFEM staff can help us to find out how to achieve transformation for our own community. Can't do becomes CAN DO!
Our Ministry Programs ↓
Evangelism 
Family Unit
Youth Ministry
Ministry to Senior Citizens
Bethesda Pool
Relief & Welfare
Agriculture & Environment
Health
Education
Savings & Enterprise
Sport & Recreation
Music & DramaOur Institutions ↓
Administration ↓
- Director's Office and Support Services - Director, Solomon Nabie, secretary and personal assistant.
- Finance Department - The team runs the Mission's finance systems.
- Chaplaincy - Ministering to all the staff, including those employed in the institutions and ensuring that the Mission continues to follow God's direction.
- Human Resources - Looking after the staff and carrying out all the administrative functions that this entails.
Our Vision, Future & Needs ↓
Special Programmes & Projects ↓
Special Programmes based at IcFEM HQ
- Internet Cafe - IcFEM runs a mast link to the Internet and provides an Internet cafe with approximately 10 machines.
- Building and Construction Services - IcFEM is known for the quality of its buildings and provides services to other bodies for the design, planning and construction of high-quality buildings, e.g. school classrooms, medical clinics, houses, etc. Transport services & vehicle maintenance - The Mission lorry provides transport services not only to the Mission but is frequently hired by others. Quality building materials are also supplied. The Dreamland Education Centre (DEC) has a school bus. The Mission has a fleet of, mainly very ancient vehicles, which are kept on the road by God's grace and which take teams into the community along the mud roads which are frequently almost impossible due to deep ruts and sticky mud. Motorcycles and bicycles are also used extensively for communication and transport.
- Tailoring workshop and shop - IcFEM runs a tailoring workshop as a training facility and sells garments and other items from HQ. For more information on this project
- Christian bookshop & Curio - IcFEM runs the only Christian bookshop in Kimilili from HQ and also sells arts and craft which supports both local artists and the mission
- Lending Library - At the headquarters there is quite an extensive library of Christian material and other books available for the community to use. This facility also rotates the collections too many small libraries in the community.
