City to City Blog
Remembering 9/11
12 Sep 2011 by David Ellis
Ten years ago this summer, my family and I moved back to Queens, New York to plant a church in the neighborhood of Astoria. I spent the first couple of months getting to know the neighborhood and networking with people who lived there. In early September, my co-planter Darcy Caires, ...
The Long Horizon: How the City Informs Youth Ministry
05 Apr 2013 by David Plant
In his recent book Calvin’s Company of Pastors, Scott Manestch points out that for about 35 years after Calvin’s arrival in Geneva all the city pulpits were occupied by foreign pastors, not Geneva natives. This was due, as Manestch points out, to the lack of catechizing Geneva’s young ...
Fighting Stagnation with Encouragement
03 May 2013 by Felipe Assis
Often times all we need in order to do what needs to be done is to acknowledge what God is already doing. Allow me to unpack this simple thought.
If we are honest, the reason why things do not get done in our lives or ministry is not because we lack ...
De-industrializing The Church, Part 2
26 Apr 2012 by Felipe Assis
In my last blog I spoke about changing our paradigms from an industrial or megachurch mentality to one that is more sustainable in our post-Christian culture. The first two were 1) incarnation over innovation and 2) environments over processes, and the last two are 3) movements over expansion and ...
De-industrializing The Church, Part 1
13 Apr 2012 by Felipe Assis
[This was originally posted on Felipe's blog.]
Despite the growing number of megachurches in America, the truth of the matter is that Christianity is in decline in our culture. I’ve heard Alan Hirsch explain the phenomenon as one of reconfiguration due to a lack of understanding of the true ...