What is distinctive about Christian community development? What makes it Christian? And how can short-term teams promote community development? This manual explores three inter-related responses to those challenging questions. The first lesson, Gospel of the Kingdom, discusses the wholistic nature of the kingdom of God. Our challenge is to let Christ rule in every area of our lives, as described in Micah 6:8. Comparing Relief and Development contrasts relief, or doing things for people, with development, or enabling or teaching people so that they learn to develop themselves. Short Term Trips that Build Community Ownership discusses what outsiders, such as short-term teams, can do to help a community take control of its own development and create its own solutions. The lesson plans in this manual can be used in at least a couple of ways: (1) to prepare short-term teams or (2) to teach the topic to any small group. DOWNLOAD = 1 MB