Linking faith and action

Inspire is a programme for Christians on the relationship between faith and action.  This is modelled on the Infact programme but with a more specific Christian content.

Programmes are geared towards reflection on underlying values and motivations, particularly focusing on the role of faith.  There is also a detailed analysis of our communities, the elaboration of common goals and visions, and a range of tools to help give a sense of direction to an organization's work.

The process is not based on lectures but on intensive group work in which people reflect on their lives through several frameworks which help them to clarify four areas crucial to community transformation:

• Individual and community history and values.
• Analysis of their own communities and cultural contexts, the way they interrelate and the underlying dynamic that governs them.
• The vision to which the group is committed.
• The building and testing of strategies that will enable the group to move towards this vision.

The four areas overlap at various points in a continuous process of action, reflection action, as participants seek to find the connections that will help them re-evaluate their experience.

The programme can be adapted to accommodate interfaith groups.