SUMMARY
AbstractThis article argues that the adoption and practice of koinonia is critically important to the poverty alleviation process. Koinonia empowers, as both the poor and the rich exist in the other and for the other, modelled on the immanent and economic Trinity. Koinonia is the very engine of the Godhead and the heart of a Christian gospel. It was the enforcement and institutionalisation of koinonian practice that contributed to the growth of the early church despite the economic hardship of the time. The lack of church koinonian life today has led to socio-economic disparities amongst congregations and congregants. This article aims at finding out whether the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian General Assembly (CCAP-GA) is a koinonian community. This article evaluates the koinonian life in the CCAP-GA as a way of making the church an effective koinonian community. Thus the article examines whether there has been Presbyterian fellowship and koinonian practice within the CCAP-GA. This article is informed by koinonian theoretical practice in probing the question of poverty within the CCAP-GA. Until the church and Christians begin to live and practise koinonian life, equally share and give at all levels, poverty will continue to be a challenge in the home, society and the church.