Our VISION
WE WANT to see the gospel of Jesus Christ transform lives and impact cities.
Our vision is to catalyse gospel-centered movements in key cities across the Asia Pacific region.
We want to impact cities by planting and strengthening gospel-centered churches, training leaders, establishing networks, and promoting trans-denominational collaboration.
City to City Asia Pacific is working in many of the global and mega cities through support in planting new churches or church revitalization, the training of ministry and cultural leaders, and providing resources in several different languages to cities in networks throughout the Asia Pacific region. These networks currently include cities in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, China, India, and Australia, and is expanding.
City to City Asia Pacific is the global affiliate of Redeemer City to City, New York. We are a gospel-centered leadership development organization that prayerfully recruits, trains, coaches, and provides resources for church planting leaders. Our hope is for gospel movements to be cultivated in key global mega-cities through church planting. The formation of City to City Asia Pacific is the answer to many years of prayer from many - Redeemer City to City leaders in New York, as well as pastors, business and cultural leaders alike in Asia Pacific.
We work to:
raisE Leaders
plant churches
develop city networks
Our presence at target cities in Asia Pacific is guided by these key elements:
Urban centers with economic and cultural influences
Church planters with a deep sense of calling for the city, leadership potential, gospel-shaped character
Partnership commitment of the local church leadership for church planter oversight
Our footprint coincides precisely with the most dynamic cities in Asia Pacific - emerging urban clusters that will drive dramatic economic growth and demographic changes over the next decade
What draws us and binds
us together is the gospel.
Gospel DNA is an understanding of how the gospel shapes all of life - from the heart, to churches, and to the cities. It is a vision of the world put into action.
a GROWING MOVEMENT
As a movement of gospel-centered churches develop in the region, we seek sustainable operational models to better serve and catalyze this continuous dynamic growth.
We build upon Redeemer Global/Redeemer City to City's experience and resources to create opportunities in partnering with our network leaders, pastors, trainers and coaches in Asia Pacific. This fosters a local leadership that is unique for Asia Pacific context as our leaders begin to shape their own gospel ministry models and further develop resources for the future.
THE DREAM
Gospel-centered church planting in our cities will lead to a critical mass of people who are changed by the gospel in such a way that the way they work, think, parent, manage money, and think about sex will be different. It will change the very fabric of the city, and the Name of the Lord will dwell in the city. That's the dream.
WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN CHURCHES ARE PLANTED IN THE CITIES OF ASIA PACIFIC
• Greater unity and collaboration
• Strong gospel presence in the city
• Changed lives leading to the flourishing of the city
• Social changes in the city; increased justice and mercy works
• Presence of a voice in the government
• Conversions and baptisms
• Believers apply faith to their work; workplaces becoming more humane
• Christian entrepreneurs and leaders in business and the arts create a counter-culture for the common good
• Growing churches – new and renewed churches
• Spontaneous church planting
• A gospel movement beyond human control (A Holy Spirit movement!)