Welcome to Transform Columbus

This website is designed to serve as a town square or hub for ministry engagement in Central Ohio. It's purpose is to surface, showcase and support God-led transformational activity as the Body of Christ collaborates to reach and transform our city, communities, neighborhoods and families.

Community Transformation is the marvel of our time. After centuries of division and distrust Church leaders are embracing unity and collaboration and the Lord is transforming cities, towns and regions all over the world. The culture of any community or nation can be identified by the following areas of influence. Intentional transformation strategy reaches every area of influence.

  • Arts, Entertainment & Sports
  • Business, Commerce, Science & Technology
  • Church
  • Distribution of Media: TV, Pring, Internet
  • Education
  • Family & Home
  • Government

Research informs us that 3 essential elements MUST work in concert where the Kingdom of God is coming and His will is being done. Through Prayer, People and Presence of God.

Prayer: A sustained, well focused and unified PRAYER movement informed by God- inspired information and God-led transformational activity. C.O.P.S., the Central Ohio Prayer Summit, is where people can join this prayer movement, receive current prayer requests, reports, event schedule and resources.

People: Transformation is the outcome of an invasion of God's love expressed through His PEOPLE. The CHURCH is an army at war fulfilling the dream of God's heart. As PEOPLE in every area of influence live under the leadership of the Holy Spirit they bring about the rule and reign of Jesus Christ in their arena of influence. www.HalftimeColumbus.org and www.ServeColumbusOhio.org are two places designed to help PEOPLE find their purpose and connect with hundreds of opportunities to serve.

Presence of God: Anyone who has had an encounter with the living God is changed. There is a distinction between well planned, well implemented and well done human effort and what happens when the PRESENCE of God increases and invades a place. It is the Holy Spirit bringing about “the ministry of Jesus” and every Christian ought to seek this lifestyle as normative.

Transformation can be properly applied to a community when change is evident not only in the lives of its inhabitants, but also in the fabric of its institutions. In the end, it is dramatic social, political, and even ecological renewal that sets these cases apart from common experience.

In short, a transformed community is...

"A neighborhood, city or nation whose values and institutions have been overrun by the grace and presence of God. It is a place where divine fire has not merely been summoned, it has fallen. A society in which natural evolutionary change has been disrupted by invasive supernatural power and a culture that has been impacted comprehensively and undeniably by the Kingdom of God. A location where kingdom values are celebrated publicly and passed on to future generations!" George Otis, Jr. (from IFTP Core Definitions & Values)