Movement Day - Church Multiplication

Interactive Tracks

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Renewing Cities Through Church Multiplication Movements

“A major religious shift is taking place in the United States, specifically as people of other religions are becoming our neighbors. The population growth in the world’s cities has exploded: since the year 2000, more than 50% of the earth’s population (numbering six billion) has been living in cities.” Ray Bakke, Chancellor, Bakke Graduate University

The majority of Americans live in America’s 40 largest cities. There has been a huge influx of immigrants that have migrated to our cities. “The only way to increase the number and percentage of Christians in a city is to plant thousands of new churches. The only way to change the culture of a city is to increase the number of churches engaged in it.” Tim Keller, Senior Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church

There is a great need for hundreds of culturally relevant, Gospel-centered churches to be planted in North American cities. The opportunity to ignite and cultivate church multiplication movements in cities has never been greater. The goal of this track is to ignite and cultivate church multiplication movements in North American cities.

Participants:

This Track is for current and potential urban Church Planters, Church Parents and Church Planting Facilitators and Network Leaders.

Objectives:

• Become inspired by a vision for your city and hear about what it takes to ignite and grow a church _multiplication movement.

• Hear from and interact with a panel of urban church planting leaders who are making a significant impact _in their city. This panel of leaders, representing different cities, denominations and ethnicities, will share _the challenges they face and the lessons they are learning.

• Participate in peer learning and networking with other urban church planters.

• Engage in an interactive case study with Jon Tyson, Lead Pastor of Trinity Grace: “Renewing Cities _through Missional Communities and Prayer”.

Track Speakers/Panelists:

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Jon Tyson, Senior Pastor, Trinity Grace Church

Jon Tyson is the senior pastor of Trinity Grace Church in New York City. Trinity Grace is a network of neighborhood churches throughout the city, committed to joining God in the renewal of all things. Jon moved to New York to plant Trinity Grace in Summer 2005. Since then, Trinity Grace has experienced tremendous growth planting five neighborhood churches located on the Eastside, Westside, Chelsea, Brooklyn and the East Village (www.trinitygracechurch.com). Originally from Adelaide, Australia, Jon lives in Manhattan with his wife Christy and their two children.

“The latest trends indicate that 80% of the world’s population will live in cities by the year 2030. Faced with this brave new world of urban societies, church planters are scrambling to find strategies for reaching cities.” Jon Tyson

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Rev. Wilfredo De Jesus, Senior Pastor New Life Covenant Ministries

Rev. Wilfredo De Jesus is Senior Pastor of New Life Covenant Ministries, one of the fastest growing churches in Chicago. Wilfredo De Jesús received a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Trinity University and a Master’s degree in Christian Ministries from North Park Theological Seminary. Wilfredo received Jesus as his Lord and Savior in 1979 and remained in that same little church for over 20 years before he was appointed Senior Pastor in July, 2000. He has also been instrumental in launching three new churches; two in the Chicago area. The third is located in Chimbote, Peru.

Rev. De Jesús has been instrumental in the development of several community-based programs. New Life Family Services was incorporated in 1998 as an extension of the church to serve the community. Today NLFS operates River of Life, a homeless shelter for women with children and an after school program. Rev. De Jesus is the Vice President of Social Justice for the nation’s largest Hispanic Christian organization, The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference which serves 18,000 churches and close to 15 million born-again Christians. Since 2004, Rev. De Jesus has served as a commissioner on the Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals. Wilfredo and his wife Elizabeth have three children.

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Michael Hayes, Executive Pastor, City Church San Franciso

The Rev. Michael Hayes is the Executive Pastor of City Church San Francisco. Mike is a native of California who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969. He and his wife Cathe have been married since 1974 and have two adult children, Meggin and Joshua. Mike is a graduate of California State University and Concordia Seminary. Before coming to San Francisco, he was involved in starting three churches in Northern California most recently Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Santa Rosa.

Charles Park, Lead Pastor- The River Church

Charles emigrated to the U.S. from Korea at age 14. He later went on Stanford where he received degrees in Computer Science & Economics. He continued on to M.I.T. where he earned a Ph.D. in Economics. After striving hard to achieve the American Dream, he found getting tangled up with the story of God made life much more interesting and unpredictable! He's been involved in full time ministry for over 10 years, including helping plant the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Greater Boston. He and his wife Caroline moved to Manhattan in June of 2004 to start the River. They live in Manhattan with their three children

Orlando Rivera, Pastor of Mount Vernon Alliance Church

Orlando is the Pastor of Mount Vernon Alliance Church located in Mount Vernon, NY, just north of New York City. Orlando is also the Assistant Professor and Department Head of Pastoral Ministry at Nyack College, NY since the fall of 2008. Prior to moving to New York, Orlando served as Pastor at Northland Church located in Orlando, FL., taught Business Ethics at Rollins College, and owned operated two Nature’s Table Café locations for three years. Orlando also planted a church and coached two church planters in Florida. In New York, he stepped into a church revitalization project two years ago. This fall, the Metro District of the C&MA is launching a church planting movement through missional communities starting with graduates of Nyack College, in addition to the denomination’s traditional church planting strategy. Internationally, as a mission pastor at Northland, A Church Distributed, the church financially supported, mentored and provided theological training for a church planting movement in Sri Lanka; this relationship that started around 1995 and continues today. He possesses the following degrees: SUNY Albany, B.A., Reformed Theological Seminary, M.Div., Rollins College, M.B.A., and Regent University, PhD candidate.

Ellis Prince, Senior Pastor, The Gallery Church

In 2008 Ellis Prince, his wife and two children moved to Baltimore, MD in partnership with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention to plant the Gallery Church. In the last three years the church has grown from four people to a gathering of more than 300 people at two sites across ethnic and economic lines. The Gallery Church is known in the city as a place where the people love God, love each other, and love being a neighbor. The Gallery is learning how to share the Gospel through living obedient lives of thankfulness for the grace we have received. The church has led initiatives to improve schools and parks and has engaged the medical community to set state and national records in testing and linkages to care for people living with HIV/Aids. Ellis Prince was born in Tampa, FL, yet was raised in Maryland. He is a graduate of Liberty University and served the Church as a youth pastor for 15 years prior to becoming a church planter. He has learned how difficult it is to engage skeptical people and the challenges pastors face when trying to shepherd people of different economic and ethnic backgrounds.

Track Design Team:

Aaron Coe	Vice President of Mobilization, North American Mission Board
Yeathus Johnson	Urban Regional Director, Christian & Missionary Alliance
Lauren Moy	Chief Operating Officer, The New York City Leadership Center
Steve Pike	National Director- Church Multiplication Network, Assemblies of God
Mark Reynolds	Associate Director- Church Planting, Redeemer City to City
Tim Vink	Coordinator of Church Multiplication, Reformed Church of America