Community empowerment is a broad term applied to the practice and academic disciplines of involved citizens, governments, and professionals to improve various aspects of local community. It is also an important method to empower individuals and groups of people by providing these groups with the skills they need to affect change in their own communities. This essay borrows Van Gennep’s “rite of passage” to analyze the roles of residents in Anggadiann or Hongchie community will shift from separation, transition, to re-incorporation during community empowerment. Besides, according to the Turner’s concept, we can demonstrate the leadership will come into “communitas” to acquire legitimate on the one hand; residents do enter to “liminality” to show their attitudes from being against to community empowerment to advocating it on the other hand. Furthermore, this article tries to provide that there are four factors could be found within issue, participants, and activities of community empowerment. The four factors are the key to determine if the attitudes of residents shift happen and whether the leader can acquire legitimate. Finally, when rural area faces contradiction between existed interpersonal relationship structure and neo-relationship of community development organization, Hongchie provides the agency of residents’ motivation. It will be a good model for other counties.