KINGDOM CITY TRANSFORMATION: INGREDIENTS PROMOTING PROCESS
From observations made in the Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth), other observations in South African cities and some experience, the following ingredients can be listed for a Kingdom City Transformation Process: what will it take towards spiritual, human, social, economic and environmental flourishing? You can fill in your score for each ingredient and do it each year as some form of measurement.
| Ingredient | Application Score 1 – 10 |
| 1. Neutral platform: need operating system to design, plan, strategise & mobilise | |
| 2. Clear vision and growth of shared vision | |
| 3. Have a clear understanding of how a transformed city will look like | |
| 4. Kingdom focus | |
| 5. Towards the “bigger picture”: challenge not to be boxed and operating in silos; why should my church or ministry or organisation be part? | |
| 6. Leadership team: mix of church and business with cultural, gender and age representation: council of wise | |
| 7. Effective succession of leadership | |
| 8. Church leads the way by example | |
| 9. Effective support of business in terms of ethical standards, resources, networking, funding, creating opportunities, influence all spheres of society | |
| 10. City prayer movement spearing the way; dealing with spiritual strongholds | |
| 11. Prophetic insight and specific scripture guiding the process | |
| 12. Relational and trust: value people | |
| 13. Spontaneous and informal: not controlling but serving | |
| 14. Holistic transformation: intersectoral cutting across all spheres in society: spiritual, social (culture, language, nationality, family, welfare, safety), economic, education, health, justice, arts, sport, governance, political, environmental, media, science, technology, etc | |
| 15. Effective engagement with City Council, Provincial Government Departments, SAPS, Chamber of Commerce, Institutions of Higher Education, etc | |
| 16. Ensure coverage of all geographical areas of city (suburbs, inner cities, townships, informal settlements, rural villages, etc) | |
| 17. Acknowledging diversity in city | |
| 18. Acknowledge valuable role fulfilled by NPOs and network NPO energy | |
| 19. Acknowledge different focus areas, approaches, priorities and scope of operations | |
| 20. Create safe spaces to share, align, learn, listen, serve and support | |
| 21. Community focused | |
| 22. Practical ways of collaboration, sharing of resources and experiences | |
| 23. Mapping: who is doing what where | |
| 24. Linking city wide events to the city process | |
| 25. ID what is working and why | |
| 26. ID what is not working and why | |
| 27. ID victories and celebrate it | |
| 28. ID challenges: face realities | |
| 29. Valuable role of media (including social media) as form of sharing God’s stories, news, events & info | |
| 30. Effective application of technology | |
| 31. Understanding city planning and policy processes, IDPs, Ward Committees, etc | |
| 32. Continuous measurements and research: where are we? | |
| 33. Accountability to community and other structures | |
| 34. Internal ownership and not facilitated by outsiders | |
| 35. Link with external processes and resources where applicable | |
| 36. It is a journey: celebrating small victories | |
| 37. Jockey to drive process | |
| 38. Long term commitment | |
| 39. Funds for city process |
For more information contact Skip Krige at skipkrig@mweb.co.za