Planning From the Global
Congress Cities Network

In May 1995, 250 city leaders met together as part of the 4500 attending the AD2000 Global Congress on World Evangelization. The following were our goals:

Through a two day process of mutual instruction, sharing ministry models and waiting on God, participants in the Cities Network Track it is our hope as a network Leadership team that participants will leave GCOWE:

1. Committed to establishing a church for every people and the gospel for every person in the least evangelized cities of the world (Population more than 100,000 and less than 3% evangelical) with particular focus on the 10/40 window.

2. Inspired and motivated with a vision of the Kingdom of God and the core values necessary to make it a growing reality in the cities of man.

3. For those so called, having defined commitments to other city leaders as members of :

a. regional inter-city networks

b. in - city Leadership teams

4. With a clear sense of the next steps to take in their city and region.

5. With ownership of global, regional and national planning goals in regard to cities for the next phase of the cities movement (1995-2000 A.D.).

 

Network Methodology

The methodology of the network is not based on any single model that should be imported to each city (e.g. evangelistic crusade or prayer evangelism or Jesus Film but is based on the wise integration of multiple models. The role of the network in enabling such an approach involves:

w Consultations

w Networking networks

w Catalytic events

w Process Development

w Media Development for Communication of Shared Vision

Leadership Team Membership
(Incomplete List as of May 1995)

Regional Coordinators

w Canzacs - Viv Grigg

w Europe - West (Heinz Strupler (Germanic), Jean-Paul Rempp (Catholic countries), Iaon Bochian (Eastern), Doug Flett (U.K.), Roger W (U.K.)

w SEA/NEA (David Cole, council members)

w China , Hong Kong ( Ben Wong, Nev Chamberlain?)

w Africa (Celestin Masekura)

w French Speaking Africa (Philippe Joelet, COEF??)

w Muslim World (??)

w Indian Sub-Continent (Viju Abraham (coordinator), Ravikant Kant (chairman)

w USA (John Quam, Hal Sacks, Tom Pelton)

w Latin America - Paul Landrey, Brazil (Paulo Leite), Spanish - speaking ( ?? )

w Russia ??? China ???

Leaders of Sub-Networks

w Jesus March linked through Prayer Network.

w Urban Poor (Bro Daniel Davies - coordinator, Viv Grigg - chairman, Jackie Pullinger (co-chair)

w Dave Thompson - Harvest Evangelism Prayer Evangelism Network for cities linked through Prayer Network.

w City Women's Leaders - proposal to find a leader who can clarify ways that women can be meshed in at Leadership levels in cities

w Street Children - Patrick McDonald, Viva Network, Canadian network (??)

w Training Centers: Tom Wolf (chairman) ,

w Research - Viv Grigg to continue in this

w Brigada E-mail - Doug Lucas to appoint

w House Church Development - Ben Wong, Nev Chamberlaine?

Council of Advisors

w The following have been involved in some roles at different points: Kamaleson -chairman, Ray Bakke, Bob Linthicum, John Dawson, Roger Greenway, Harvey Conn, Roger Forster.

Team Leadership

w Coordinator, Team Leader- Landry

w Chairman - Kamaleson

w Co-Chairman , Cat alyst - Grigg

Functions of the Leadership Team

w Philosophic Conceptualization of Processes (Landry, Grigg, others, by consensus, produced in manuals)

w Materials production committee (Grigg, Quam, Landry, Pelton) Manual either like Aussie Awakening magazine or 4 smaller boklets to be mailed out to leaders in 3500 cities

w Cities Network Video (Tom Pelton)

w Communications - 3 monthly network newsletter (or portion of manual) (Grigg to edit maillist and get to Landry, Landry to mail)

w Database update (Landry )

w Research (Grigg)

Global - Southern Baptist Convention??

Adopt-A-City Profiles ??

Work-Among Analysis for every city??

In-City Research

w Major Catalytic Events (Landry, Carol Davis)

w Sub-network Development (Grigg, Landry)

w Recruiting and appointing of regional coordinators and other Leadership (Landry, Grigg)

w Adopt-a-city Process (Paulo Leite??)

w Exploring the mesh with other tracks particularly radio, mass evangelism movements, 100 Gateway Cities initiative of the U.S., Ed Silvoso, Jesus March (Landry)

 © Viv Grigg and the Encarnação Alliance Training Commission
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