God-Empowered Community Transformation — When the Presence of God so invades a community that people turn to Christ, church attendance increases, churches experience dynamic spiritual life, the community climate shifts toward godliness in its values, poverty decreases, crime drops, student stay in school, oppression, lawlessness, and injustice decreases, businesses and the economy flourish, government corruption disappears and community and governmental leaders are not only open to God's presence and prayer, but seek to work along-side the church for the betterment of the community. When God-send transformation occurs, even the land and ecosystem respond with restoration. Transformation is both an event (God coming in sudden ways) and a process of change over time as His Presence invades various spheres of the community. It is measured in the distance the community moves from darkness to light.