Global Cities
“But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria and to the
ends of the earth.”Acts 1:8
The Cedar Springs Global Cities Team is in partnership
with Redeemer Church of New York City in their desire
to plant churches in the gateway cities across the
world.
Following in the scriptural path of the apostle Paul from
the book of Acts, we are looking to “engage the cities,
instead of escaping from them.”
Piers Vander
Partnering in: Funding, Coaching, Training, Assessing,
RecruitingLocal Church Leaders In Global Cities
Redeemer Presbyterian NYC
Cedar Springs Presbyterian
Global Cities
“I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have
been clothed with power from on high.”Luke 24:44
“The Goal is to create new movements of gospel-driven, urban-center church planting in the most influential cities of
the world that have the potential to transform those cities and the nations or regions in which they exist.” Allan Barth
Urban Dwellers
“There will be over 35 cities in the next 10 years that will have more than 10 million people and only
one of those will be in the Midwest”
Jay Kyle – Redeemer Church
Urban Dwellers
• By 2010 there will be 23 cities with populations greater than 10,000,000
• By 2020 there will be more than 25 cities with populations less than 11,000,000
• By 2050 there will be more than 25 cities with populations greater than 16,000,000
LOVE THE CITY TO LIFE
“The city attracts the strongest as well as the weakest. Sin takes this divine strength-the diversity of the city-and turns it
into a place of conflict and strife. The Gospel is needed to resist the dark side of this gift.” Tim Keller
London ,Rome, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, L.A., San Francisco, Paris,
Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Beijing…
“By the end of 2008, half or the world’s 6.7 billion people will live in urban areas.” Mongabay News
“For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” Hebrews 11:10
“Christians cannot expect to influence the wider culture without living and being active in the city.” Tim Keller
Reach the Cities and You Reach The World
Loose the Cities and You Loose the World
Paris Church Plant
• Less than 20% of people in Paris are churched.
• Pray that God’s Spirit would do a deep work in each person who visits the church.
• Pray that visitors would come back and stick with the Paris church plant.
Paris
Rome
Church Plant Pastors
“The Vision is to start from Rome to reach the nation, to start from a church to mobilize and expand a movement
and to live the gospel to see transformation . . . So we need global prayers to see the work taking off.”
Leonardo de Chirico
London
Berlin
Cape Town“We long for
greater gospel penetration into
our city and particularly into
traditionally difficult areas like the city
center. Thank you to all of you for your prayers,
support and encouraging
messages along the way - they
are a huge blessing to us.”
Cape Town Church Planters
Sao Paulo
Church Planter
Buenos Aires
Beijing
CSPC Partnering in China
Hong Kong
In mainland China so many people are moving from the countryside into the cities that the Chinese are creating 20 or
more new cities of one to two million each year.
“It is not a question of
whether they will continue to influence the world. It
is only a question of what that
influence will be.”
Harvey Conn
“AS THE CITIES GO, SO GO THE NATIONS . . . SAVE THE CITIES AND YOU SAVE THE NATION, FOR THE LORD GOD OF ALL THE HEAVENS IS THE LORD GOD OF THE CITIES.”
How Can You Engage?Prayer
RelationshipsStrategic Financial Support
Visit-ConnectMission Teams