Against the enormous challenges represented by each continent, nation, and city we recognize our desperate need to work collaboratively with other agencies. Whether it is collaborative church planting, fighting sex trafficking, or generating entrepreneurship, we must do this together.
TRANSFORMING CITIES
TRANSFORMATIONAL CITY STORIES ALREADY EMERGING GLOBALLY:
• In Brazil, collaborative evangelism stimulated by our Movement Day Scholars training will reach 11,000 people in Brazilian cities in 2025. • In Natal, the capital city of Rio Grande Do Norte, a Movement Day Scholar recently mobilized 700 volunteers and 80 churches during a multi-faceted gospel outreach in under-served communities. • In the United Arab Emirates, 1,000 nannies have been reached by a network formed by a scholar participant, resulting in hundreds of conversions and baptisms. • In Chennai, India, one Movement Day Scholar was inspired to plant 28 churches in the slums of Chennai. Another launched a youth discipleship program that is training 400 young people to share the gospel, while a marketplace leader has built a
network of 400 Christian business owners seeking to foster job creation.
• Across India, the Disruptive Women movement, active in 20 cities, addresses the extraordinary rates of suicide among women, including the work of sex trafficking. The woman who incubated this movement was inspired and trained in our Movement Day Scholars program. • In Africa, a continental network is being established to bring best practices together as represented in the 2025 publication Why African Cities with 25 authors. • In Accra, Ghana, Movement Day Scholars are playing key roles in the “Together for the City” initiative, an ambitious plan to train 10,000 leaders for a citywide gospel outreach later this year.
YEAR 2025 300 CITIES
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