A Catalyst for Church Planting
Strategic Cities Foundation focuses on church planting for the formation of the Gospel influence in cities around the world.
Strategic cities are identified through critical analyzation of geographic location, community connectivity, and most importantly, leadership potential.
How We Serve
TRAINING
INTERNSHIPS
SEED PLANTING
Our Vision
The vision for Strategic Cities Foundation is to catalyze church planting ecosystems in highly influential cities across the world. We envision churches that are Kingdom-minded, desiring to see God’s rule come to bear in their city, the surrounding region, and even beyond. They are churches that are not inward-looking or defensive. They don’t try to build their own kingdom and have a posture of generosity.
Our Strategy
Part of the strategy includes developing the leaders of impact churches so that they expand their vision beyond their immediate cities to the region. This will lead to the next step which is seeing leaders developing the capacity to resource other leaders in their region. In other words, they repeat the process, on a smaller scale, in their neighborhood.
Our Process
Based on the criteria and process used by Europe Collaboration, Strategic Cities Foundation is:
- Donor Initiated
- Research Led
- Analysis Driven
- Donor Decided
Case Studies
ATHENS
The Presbyterian Church in Greece, a relatively old denomination known as the Greek Evangelical Church, was established in 1858. Until about 2010, it had not planted a new congregation in over half a century. Compared to the Greek Orthodox church, it felt impotent to make a dent in the country’s religious landscape.
CHILE
We visited Chile for the first time in 2011. The evangelical church was small and divided, and many of the denominations were led by men more concerned about their kingdom, than God’s kingdom. Many missionaries were having, at best, marginal impact and often negative. The initial point of entry into the country was not obvious. We continued making trips and building relationships.
