WHO WE ARE

CITY TO CITY AUSTRALIA EXISTS TO HELP LEADERS BUILD GOSPEL MOVEMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN CITIES.

The vision of City to City Australia is to join with God to see major city centres in Australia worshipping Jesus Christ as Lord so that God will renew them spiritually, socially and culturally to the glory of God the Father. City to City Australia is a resource for church planting and renewal in the cities of Australia. We seek to catalyse new church plants and strengthen existing churches through our programs and resources.

We do this by:

• Training & equipping leaders

• Developing City Networks

A GLOBAL MOVEMENT

We are a part of City to City Asia Pacific, which is, in turn, part of Redeemer City to City in New York City. The movement began out of the vision of Redeemer Presbyterian Church to see a renewal of Gospel-centred church planting in the great urban cities of the world, and is very much connected to the former pastor of Redeemer, Dr Timothy Keller.

We are not bound to any denomination, but rather to Christ. We know that it will take many churches to reach a city. We train leaders to start churches where teaching is biblically sound and applied to the cultures’ questions.

OUR TEAM

Our staff team is spread over Sydney and Melbourne, working nationally to equip, train and support leaders to advance the gospel in their cities.

City to City Australia is under the governing direction of its Board, chaired by Rev Justin Moffatt, and which includes Mr Daren Armstrong, Mr Greg Fendler, Mr Simon Miller, Mr Paul Symons and Ms Lara Rutledge. The CEO of City to City Australia is Rev Andrew Katay.

Why new churches in cities?

The Apostle Paul, arguably the greatest missionary in history, had a simple, two-fold strategy as he set out to bring the gospel to the Gentile world. First, he went to the cities (cf. Acts 16:9, 12), and second, he planted churches in each city (cf. Titus 1:5 - "appoint elders in every town"). Having done that, he could say that he had "fully preached" the gospel and that his work had been accomplished (cf. Romans 15:19, 23). His assumption was that once a church was established everything necessary for the spread of the gospel would follow.

Today, research shows that new churches are the best way to reach new generations, new residents, and new people groups in a city with the gospel. In fact, they are up to 6 to 10 times more effective at attracting people to the gospel than older, more established churches. Although we desperately need the existing churches to continue to grow and maintain faithful gospel ministry, if we are to reach the rapidly growing numbers of people in cities who do not know Christ, we need hundreds and thousands of new churches to be established in those cities.

For the first time in the history of the world more than 50% of the world's population lives in cities. Most leading urbanologists estimate that by 2050 the number of people living in cities will exceed 75%. The growth of cities is the missional challenge of our generation.