Building Capacity in Communities

There is a growing field of resources and organizations designed to inspire engagement of churches and Christian leaders in their communities.

Let me tell you about my church... This is a very short video from the churches of Teesside. This is a great story of unity in a community!

City Movement Resources

What is a Gospel City Movement– Some definitions and resources for city movements

Gospel City Movements– The City Gospel Movement Team helps to celebrate and accelerate collaborative gospel work in cities around the world.

Movement Day– There is a unique opportunity and urgency to unite and empower Christian leaders to change cities through gospel movement and impact today’s urban issues of fatherlessness, education, poverty, and unemployment.

Marketplace Resources

Made to Flourish– Equip your church to integrate faith, work, and economic wisdom

Atworkonpurpose.org– Mobilizing the work world for Christ 

Regional work

For Charlotte– The For Charlotte Mission Network is a gospel-centered network of churches in the Greater Charlotte area working together to seek the peace of the Queen City. We do this with the shared conviction that when the church operates in unity, it can make the greatest possible impact for the good of the city.

Intercession Group-Intercession Group is a team of men and women, motivating and encouraging leaders to facilitate Hope in the marketplace. There is no formal membership or fee.  Their goal is to impact the community, businesses, and relationships around them to be Christ-like leaders and grow in Him.

For Evansville– By listening, convening, and cultivating, For Evansville wants to see a city where people experience love and give love; where people prioritize the holistic well-being of all people; and where people’s work provides community value and individual purpose. We believe that kind of citywide flourishing happens when each person achieves the fruitfulness for which they were made.

City Shelf- The Tristate community around Evansville Indiana has been in learning mode for a couple of years and this is their website sharing speakers and resources around what they have been learning.

Abide-Omaha– Abide is an inner city, non-profit organization with a dream, that one day, Omaha, Nebraska would have no inner city.

City Movement Canada– Our purpose is to connect churches, ministries, agencies, and marketplace leaders into leadership networks that leverage trust, forward-thinking, shared data, and strategic partnerships to engage a new generation and serve our cities

Danville Illinois-This is the story of a small town in Illinois that is making a big difference.

City Gene– Some amazing video and media that captures the stories and theology of a city movement in the San Francisco Bay area.

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