EQUIPPING & CONVENING LeADeRS
I n the wake of 9/11, MOVEMENT. ORG began a global partnership with World Vision, raising $6M for victims and families that was distributed through local churches. From 2002 to 2013, we hosted 175 pastors and leaders to see the work of World Vision in East Africa and the Caribbean. East Africa was being ravaged by the AIDS pandemic. By 2013, the 175 pastors and leaders enlisted 11,000 sponsors of children, impacting 600,000 people. Because of its power to convene leaders in unity, MOVEMENT.ORG was asked by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to give
pivotal leadership in hosting Dr. Billy Graham’s last crusade in Flushing Meadow Park (2005), which drew 210,000 people over three nights, including 9,400 recorded decisions for Christ. During that season, MOVEMENT.ORG was also approached by the Willow Creek Association to plant the Global Leadership Summit (GLS) in New York City, convening more than 20,000 leaders over the course of a decade. Leadership development has been a hallmark of MOVEMENT.ORG and its strategic partners in New York. Redeemer City to City-trained church planters were crucial to the historic Manhattan church growth.
We convened many of these leaders from 10 denominational backgrounds.
Tim Keller invited Mac Pier to co- create the Church Multiplication Alliance with him, saying, “Manhattan needs many new churches. They are not all going to be Presbyterian. We can’t do this without you.” In 2010, Keller and his team also co- created the New York City Movement Project with MOVEMENT.ORG. The goals of the project were to plant new churches, train 20,000 New York City leaders, and launch Movement Day. Tim Keller communicated to a philanthropic colleague that if the NYC Movement Project was successful, it would be world historic.
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