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Published by gary.b.jennings1, 2022-03-23 11:14:13

About CityLife

ABOUT CITYLIFE

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ABOUT CITYLIFE
CityLife is a faith-based, non-profit organization committed to making life better in marginalized apartment
communities across North America. Our vision/mission compels us to intentionally serve apartment
owners and apartment management companies to create flourishing, healthy apartment communities.

Vision
We desire to join God in transforming apartment properties into flourishing and healthy
communities by serving with purpose.

Mission
We serve apartment owners and management companies by providing a sustainable, long-term
strategy and partnerships to genuinely demonstrate God’s love to employees and their residents.

Bottom Line
We make apartment communities a great place to live, work, grow and serve.

Strategy Design (disciple making movement principles)

➔ Pray and Fast!
◆ Pray and Fast to discover where God is working and join Him in His plan.
◆ Develop an intercessory prayer team.
◆ Establish a PrayerHouse in apartment communities.
◆ Recruit, equip and mobilize individuals to prayer walk the most difficult areas and do a needs
assessment.

➔ Serve with Purpose.
◆ We will assess the needs in apartments to make life better emotionally, physically, spiritually,
socially, vocationally and financially.
◆ CL will accomplish sustainable acts of compassion by …

○ Recruiting and equipping local individuals, churches and organizations to help struggling
families and individuals thrive by connecting them to local resources and services.

○ Building bridges into communities through teams supported by local churches who relocate

to and “adopt” low-income apartment complexes, where needs are densely saturated.

➔ Find Persons of Peace.
◆ Prayer Walk neighborhoods and have spiritual conversations.
◆ Find and work with persons of peace who will open their family, friends and other networks
to compassion ministries and start Discovery Groups.

➔ Start Discovery Groups.
◆ Equip and empower residents of apartments to be facilitators of Discovery Groups using an
obedience-based, simple, easily replicable inductive Bible study.
◆ Discovery Groups will be coached by Discovery Bible Study equippers.

➔ Embrace Multiplication.
◆ Train, equip and coach disciple making movement leaders and catalysts to make
disciplemakers who make disciplemakers.
◆ Mobilize the local Church to reach the nations locally and beyond using the disciple making
movement strategy.
◆ Empower and equip Discovery Groups to become disciple making movement churches.

➔ Develop Partnerships.
◆ Create life changing partnerships among local individuals, entrepreneurs, churches and
organizations who will share their skills and resources to make life better, more joyful and
purposeful in apartment communities.


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