Phase 2
July 2020–June 2023
We began Phase 2 in July 2020 in the midst of unprecedented times. A global pandemic that continues to impact many with losses of loved ones while bringing economic uncertainty and massive disruptions to basic human interactions. While at the same time, we experienced a transformational anti-racist movement. So much is tragic, bewildering and at the same time, hopeful and beautiful.
Our city needs Christians
serving as his hands and feet more than ever. Christians living, sharing and praying in other-centered ways to bring restoration and renewal especially for those isolated and living on the margins in our city.
Our city needs gospel-centered churches
sharing the good news of Jesus’ saving grace to our friends and neighbors who don’t know a God who restores all things. It needs the full spectrum of churches, from majority-culture churches to churches on the margins to call out racial injustices while praying for all in the city. For churches to reflect on how the larger evangelical church may have been co-opted into silence or inaction and embrace the work of repentance.
Our city needs mission-focused planters
and ministry leaders more than ever. Leaders embracing reinventions of ministry and staying agile in leading others for the sake of the gospel movement.
Center-city Manhattan continues to be one of the most secular center-cities in North America
and yet, through the grace of God, we saw the body of Christ grow from 5% to 7% in Phase 1 bringing us closer to a tipping point. We are expectant more than ever that he will continue to build the movement.
COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund
We gave away a crisis fund of $1.5M to bless 83+ churches with emergency funding. This funding helped keep churches afloat. It enabled them to:
Support church members in financial need, especially those that don’t qualify for government assistance
Pay rent or mortgages for church facilities
Avoid lay-offs when pastoral staff is needed more than ever
Pay for technical support to set up online giving and tithing and online services
Pray March Act
Following the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, 30+ churches affiliated with City to City joined together to lament and pray for the racial injustices in the city through peaceful protests in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx. These protests were led in large part by local leaders, minorities and millennials.
Phase 2 Goals
New York City needed healthy and missional churches more than ever.
New Churches
47
new churches started
11
in center-city Manhattan
36
new non-center-city churches, from the Bronx to Brooklyn
New Leaders
$8.7m
We continued to fine-tune the leadership training engine that was built in Phase 1.
690
leaders trained
231
pastors trained
Areas of Focus and Growth
Evangelism and Missional Church
Healthy Churches and Pastors
Greater Community Engagement
A New Home
$22m
NYP Leadership Development Center
NY Leadership Development Center
The property selected and purchased for Redeemer East Side provided additional air rights which enables City to City to build much needed training space. By constructing three additional floors, City to City will be able to own and will build a permanent training hub for church planters and pastors for the New York Project. The purchase, design and construction are planned to cost a total of $22M.
Together with Redeemer East Side, this joint construction project began fall 2021 and is expected to complete fall 2024.
What It Cost
$8.5m
for New Churches
$8.5m
for New Leaders
$22m
for A New Home (NY Project Leadership Development Center)
$1m
for Fundraising
$40m
total
What was fundraised
$40m
Given by the Momentum Weekend community