Our Strategy

I-61 Strategy for Community Transformation

The “I-61” Strategy is a faith-based mode of operation that uses the Bible scripture of Isaiah chapter 61 as an Answer to hopelessness, unproductivity, crime and poverty in the nation of Jamaica. It is designed and developed within City Life Ministries as a tool to transform the nation one community at a time.

The I-61 message and philosophy lays the foundation for the all programmes, projects, and activities that are carried out by City Life Ministries. We believe that personal change and church membership are not the end purpose of God for the believer. The righteous community is a means toward an end, not an end in itself.

Operating in the communities primarily through a Target Group of Men, who in turn will become change agents amongst their own people, the “I-61” Strategy engages the Church as a witness to evangelize and mentor those in the community who are committed to learn, to be shaped, and to be transformed.

Isaiah 61 speaks about the empowerment of the ‘Pillars in the community that must become the vehicles of change.  (V. 4) And they shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations.

v. 4-7  describes the results of the effective implementation of this strategy