Sacred Roots

To Equip Leaders Serving the Churches That Arise from Evangelical Church Planting Movements Furthermore, we will strive to insure that the leaders and congregations of these church planting movements are equipped for effective urban ministry, and empowered to affiliate with other leaders and churches in shared identity and purposeful association. We will strive to enable the leaders and churches arising from these movements to participate as active members of larger networks of healthy assemblies, where they can be encouraged in their common worship and discipleship, and be enriched in dynamic and ongoing fellowship. We will facilitate the establishment of effective structures of godly oversight and stewardship, which will protect them from schism and heresy, and encourage them to collaborate together through strategic projects of giving, service, and mission. Finally, we will strive to see that the evangelical leaders and churches from these movements join together in explicit unity for the purpose of fulfilling the Great Commission among the urban poor in America, and wherever possible, around the world. Starting with the American unreached poor, we will challenge every Christian leader, urban church, and church planting movement to collaborate and coordinate their gifts, efforts, and resources to advance the Gospel of Christ and his Kingdom to every urban poor community on earth. We will begin with our own Jerusalems and Judeas here in urban America, and hope to grow throughout this continent, and in our hemisphere. Ultimately, we will seek to assist these same church planting movements among America’s urban poor to aggressively advance the Kingdom by rapidly multiplying similar church planting movements among the unreached urban poor of the mega-cities of the world, especially those recognized as Gateway cities within the 10/40 Window. To Spawn Aggressive New Church Planting Initiatives among the Poor in America and across the Globe

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