Isaiah 61:4
Challenge
Our cities need REVIVAL NOW, and it takes Christians in all areas of cultural influence, coordinating together, to achieve that level of impact. However, Christian-led efforts to transform cities primarily function in silos, each group focused in one area, on one mission, and seldom coordinating with complementary groups, much less with co-laborers addressing the same need.
Lack of knowledge and simple fleshly desires – pride, offense, envy, greed – have deterred many well-meaning leaders from collaborating and achieving long-term, sustainable impact.
From 1995 to 2023, Americans who believed in a biblical world view of God, dropped from 69% to 50% in a continual decline.
SOLUTION
To tackle the challenge, The Great Awakening Project works with experts Ford Taylor and Chuck Proudfit to bring cities a proven sustainable model of transformational leadership and citywide workplace ministry.
Christian leaders in prominent spheres of culture and committed to see their cities saved and transformed, come together for Christ, agree to resolve relationship differences, then write and implement strategic plans together to maximize their strengths and coordinate their efforts.
FUNDING CITY INITIATIVES
CITY LAUNCH
$100K Per City
IMPACT ROI
12-Month Initiative
- Unified network of Christian leaders committed to collectively bring Awakening and Revival to their city
- Strategic city planning with implemented action plan
- Year-long expert coaching for teams to achieve goals
- Impact measurables and reporting for donors
- Coordinated action to reclaim the city's culture for God
STEPS FOR A SUSTAINABLE
CITY INITIATIVE
Identify COMMITTED CITY LEADERS
Local city leaders, who are called by the Lord to transform their cities, invite our City Impact coaches to come alongside them and help identify others like themselves in the city. Together they build a committed core team with unified purpose and calling. This team then prayerfully identifies Christian leaders reflecting city demographics in business, ministry, government, education, the arts, and the like, who have a heart for Revival and are impactful in their areas of influence. This process lasts six months.
Results:
Dayton city team started at a 10 to 90 ratio of minority to white but is now 50 to 50 reflecting city demographics.
Host City Impact Workshop To Unify Leader Network
At the team’s invitation, our experts lead a two-day workshop providing transformational training to guide leaders out of silos and into sustainable relationships across all areas of cultural influence. There, city leaders first clarify and establish covenant relationships among themselves, then start the process of writing a common vision with a common language for their sphere of influence in the city.
UNIFIED ACTION
The unified team and experts meet regularly for six months to prayerfully develop, clarify, and modify their plan of action, which is then implemented to achieve strategic objectives in focus areas like trafficking, poverty, education, etc. Coaching continues so goals are reached, vision and relationships continue, and the city transformation process becomes sustainable.
Results: In Cincinnati, unified regional efforts resulted in two city councils banning abortion clinics and 65+ churches uniting annually for a citywide service day to clean the city.
IMPACT REPORTING FOR DONORS
The Great Awakening Project provides baseline measures and impact metrics over 12 months to include demographic studies, data collection and analysis, and donor reporting.
UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS (IN DEVELOPMENT)
A robust communications platform for city leaders will be introduced to sync strategic action, reporting, and prayer.
This step is in development as we consider various options
which best suit each city.
CITY IMPACT LEADERSHIP
Ford Taylor
Transformational Leadership
Chuck Proudfit
At Work On Purpose
CITY IMPACT MAP
Key
- First CITY Model
- GAP Helped Fund
- Others Funded
- GAP Priority Funding
- GAP Prospect