In this multi-faceted process of community development, the following few key groups of people can be distinguished:

• Family - the cell group of a community
• Leaders - people in authority that can influence the community through the attitudes and the decisions they may take that impact the community and the local church.
• The Local Church - a structure that is essential in forming the character of the people reaching higher standards of morality through the proclamation of biblical truth. The Local Church has the God-given potential to influence each community member from a spiritual, social, intelectual and phisical perspective.

FHI Community Development focuses its work on these three groups of people. As we help these key groups to start the process of community development, the process will strengthen. With this in mind, FHI Community Development has set the following objectives:

• The Local Church: should increasingly be reaching out to their community
• Leaders: should be increasingly solving problems in their community
• Family members: should be increasingly meeting each others’s needs.