2015 REPORT FINAL1

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CITAM RESOURCE MOBILIZATION REPORT
TWM is designed to work within
our discipleship system to
encourage and embrace a ‘culture
of stewardship and generosity’
Rev. Kwame Rubadiri
Coordinator, Resource Mobilization
At the end of 2014 CITAM established a
department of Resource Mobilization to help the
church continue the important work for funding
the construction of new sanctuaries, expanding
our missions and ensuring that our social action
ministries like care for the at-risk children at our
Children’s Center were well supported.
God has blessed us at CITAM with a large
congregation, great gifts and abundant resources.
But quite often these gifts and resources are evident
from only a small percentage of the congregation;
and even though by the Grace of God we accomplish
a lot – all of us know that we can (indeed we should)
accomplish a great deal more.
Together We Can Do More (TWM) was launched in
September 2015 and introduced to all the CITAM
Assemblies as the natural progression of our efforts
after the close of Moving the Ark. TWM is described
as a “progression” because we want to introduce a
new ‘culture’ to CITAM that will ensure support for this
ministry for decades to come. TWM is designed to
work within our discipleship system to encourage and
embrace a ‘culture of stewardship and generosity’.
The objective of this 1-year capital stewardship
campaign is to raise support for the completion of
construction for the permanent sanctuaries (three
remain to be done) CITAM Buru Buru, Thika Road
and Nakuru. In addition to encourage a regular (and
growing) pool of funding for future sanctuaries,
current missions, street child rehabilitation and
much more.
Based on our efforts during the MTA campaign we
can conservatively raise KES 150 million every year
over and above regular tithes and offering from just
over 11,000 members of CITAM – that’s roughly one
quarter of our total membership/attendance.
TWM was introduced via a ‘soft launch’ in the last
quarter of 2015 and just over 2,500 of us committed
KES 85 million toward a last quarter goal of KES 50
million. This in itself was an outstanding expression
of faith in God and our potential to do so much more
if we would only rally our efforts together and strive to
accomplish what the Lord asks us to do!
We decided to use the TWM ‘launch’ period to
re-introduce ourselves to the amazing ministry of
CITAM. We did so by sharing a video series entitled
“Discovering CITAM”.
The series highlighted four big things we have
accomplished TOGETHER over the years.
The first video highlighted the transformation the Lord
has allowed us to experience in the lives of the street
children at our rehabilitation center in Kiserian. The
Center celebrated 20 years of ministry in August
2015 and we shared the testimony of several young
people (some are now graduates of local universities)
who began life at the Center right from the rough
CITAM Annual Report and Financial Statements | 2015