Community Transformation is our vision. Myanmar is our focus. Our passion is to see communities transformed holistically; to facilitate physical, emotional, relational, financial and spiritual development, and to see a church planting movement established amongst the Burmese people.

NEWS - July 2010...

Mingala pa! (Greetings)

It has now been 2 months since the official launch of Community Transformation, and is just days until Gin Bawi leaves Australia.

Official Launch

The official launch of Community Transformation was a great success. Thank you to all who came! Some highlights:

• Approx 100 people attended
• $430 / month has been pledged, in addition to existing support for Gin Bawi
• A further $3,800 has been given in one-off donations
• We heard the heartbeat of Gin Bawi, Anthony & Vicki Ware, Rob Koch, Derek Tucker, and many others

On behalf of the board and committee of management we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped to make the launch so successful. It takes a large number of people working behind the scenes as well as up front to make such an event successful.

A lot has happened since the launch:

• Visits to a number of churches and connect groups/cell groups to promote CT and Gin Bawi's ministry, including
  • Ballarat City Church
  • Southern Hills AOG (Korumburra)
• Work has commenced on our new registrations
• Strategic planning with Gin Bawi for the launch of the Mandalay project
• Preliminary planning for two trips to Myanmar in 2011

Gin Bawi Departure

(see more details of the project here)

Gin Bawi departs Australia on July 19. Wow! So soon!

With just 1 week remaining, Gin Bawi is very busy with final arrangements and strategic planning for his ministry.

Gin Bawi has been a special part of many of our lives over the past 3 years. It is now time to say our farewells.  A number of events have been arranged:

• Sun 11 July – 1pm Andrew & Fiona Walker's home
• Sun 11 July – 5pm Rob & Karen Koch's home
• Sat 17 July – 1pm Derek Tucker's home (9704 1464/0410 803 190)
• Sun 18 July – 5pm Mercy Benjamin's home (9705 6129/0405 146 384)

*** PLEASE NOTE: Gin Bawi will be speaking at all 3 services at Winepress this weekend. Don't miss this! ***

Our goal is to raise:

• $1,600 per month for ongoing support for Gin Bawi and his work, plus
• $10,000 to help with initial set up costs

by December 2010.

We are well over ½ way there ... but we still need your help!

please CLICK HERE to donate now, or contact us HERE

Praise points:

• for providing for Gin Bawi's financial needs during his 3 years in Australia
• for a very successful launch event and strong commitment to the vision
• for the beginnings of His provision of finances for Mandalay

Prayer points:

• that God will provide the necessary finances to support the Mandalay project
• that Gin Bawi's transition back to Myanmar will go smoothly. In particular, please pray:
  • that Gin Bawi will readjust quickly;
  • and that he will find favour with local authorities
• for God to release CT staff to financially to put more time into building this ministry
• for the registration processes for CT proceed with a minimum of delays
• that God will raise up more board members. We are currently in discussions with a number of potential people. Please ask God to give us all clear guidance as to who the right team should be.
• for fellow labourers to assist us in the task ahead in Myanmar

In a nutshell ...

Community Transformation (or CT) is a Christian faith-based not-for-profit organisation. We conduct both development and mission projects in Myanmar, and are non-denominational. What sets CT apart is our focus not on children or individuals, but on empowering whole communities for total transformation.

Mandalay project ...

Click here for details of our Gin Bawi project in Mandalay.

Ongoing Strategy ...

Our ongoing strategy is two fold:

1. Help train, release and support church planters, like Gin Bawi, who will build churches that share Christ authentically in culturally sensitive ways; and,
2. Partner with poor communities in Myanmar and journey with them over the long term through CDE projects. This means helping empower them to break out of the poverty cycle, to build healthy communities and allowing them to evaluate the claims of Christ.

The organisation was established in 2003, when Anthony and Vicki Ware returned from 8.5 years service in Thailand with another organisation. Ian Grant and Don Gall have been board members since 2003. Rob Koch and Derek Tucker both joined the team in 2006.

The year 2010 marks the launch of a new era, with additional team members, an expanded vision and a new governance structure.  2010 sees us formally registering with the Australian Government as two separate not-for-profit companies, one for our mission program and one as our development arm.

transform lives with us ...

transform communities with us ...

If you have two pairs of shoes and a beggar has none, then to keep both pairs amounts to theft

Ambrose, a 4th-century bishop of Milan

The wealth of the world is given to all

Thomas Aquinas, a 13th-century theologian

If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled" but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?

James 2:15-16