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OUR PURPOSE is to create the environment and relationships necessary to equip, empower, and engage Christian mission and ministry in the city cores that is characteristically incarnational and transformational. WE WILL pray for kingdom power, pursue kingdom values, partner for kingdom goals.
1/23/2004
Resolution on Texas City Cores
City Core Initiative
Resolution on Texas City Cores
WHEREAS Texas cities are increasingly secular, pluralistic, and multicultural, and
WHEREAS Texas cities are in demographic and economic transition, and
WHEREAS the city core is home to an emerging multicultural mix of the undocumented immigrant, the artistic, and the eclectic postmodern, and
WHEREAS the city core is home to those who are poor, unemployed, and powerless, and
WHEREAS the city core is home to those who are affluent, powerful, successful, and driven, and
WHEREAS many city core communities are identified by problems of poverty, crime, and violence, and
WHEREAS the city core is the hub of government, business, commerce, banking, and communications, and
WHEREAS the city core is a growing mission field, and
WHEREAS the city core is being populated by non-Christian religions, and
WHEREAS many churches of all Christian denominations have left the city core, and
WHEREAS many churches remaining in the city core are statistically plateaued and have limited resources for ministry, and
WHEREAS our Lord Jesus Christ wept over the city of Jerusalem, and scattered His churches to bring the good news of the gospel to the cities of the world, and
WHEREAS we are still called to be salt and light to our culture,
Be it therefore RESOLVED that we make a fresh commitment to the city core for spiritual renewal and community transformation through prayer, evangelism, innovative missional strategies, compassionate ministries, social entrepreneurship, and missions partnerships; and
Be it further RESOLVED that we encourage churches in the city core to seek alliances and networks among other churches with which to share fellowship, resources, and strategic methods to jointly engage their communities for Christ; and
Be it finally RESOLVED that City Core Initiative seeks the cooperation of Christians and their institutions in community transformation processes and strategies through dialogue, collaboration and partnership.
City Core Initiative 1/2004
Resolution on Texas City Cores
WHEREAS Texas cities are increasingly secular, pluralistic, and multicultural, and
WHEREAS Texas cities are in demographic and economic transition, and
WHEREAS the city core is home to an emerging multicultural mix of the undocumented immigrant, the artistic, and the eclectic postmodern, and
WHEREAS the city core is home to those who are poor, unemployed, and powerless, and
WHEREAS the city core is home to those who are affluent, powerful, successful, and driven, and
WHEREAS many city core communities are identified by problems of poverty, crime, and violence, and
WHEREAS the city core is the hub of government, business, commerce, banking, and communications, and
WHEREAS the city core is a growing mission field, and
WHEREAS the city core is being populated by non-Christian religions, and
WHEREAS many churches of all Christian denominations have left the city core, and
WHEREAS many churches remaining in the city core are statistically plateaued and have limited resources for ministry, and
WHEREAS our Lord Jesus Christ wept over the city of Jerusalem, and scattered His churches to bring the good news of the gospel to the cities of the world, and
WHEREAS we are still called to be salt and light to our culture,
Be it therefore RESOLVED that we make a fresh commitment to the city core for spiritual renewal and community transformation through prayer, evangelism, innovative missional strategies, compassionate ministries, social entrepreneurship, and missions partnerships; and
Be it further RESOLVED that we encourage churches in the city core to seek alliances and networks among other churches with which to share fellowship, resources, and strategic methods to jointly engage their communities for Christ; and
Be it finally RESOLVED that City Core Initiative seeks the cooperation of Christians and their institutions in community transformation processes and strategies through dialogue, collaboration and partnership.
City Core Initiative 1/2004
