Monday, May 10, 2010

City Center Hubs in N. America

I announced yesterday at our Tacoma Gathering for Soma Communities 2 new developments:
  1. Soma's vision to establish City Center Hubs for Gospel saturation via Gospel Communities on Mission in 10 major cities west of the Mississippi: San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Boise, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Phoenix
  2. The Hiring of Sam Ticas to help led from a Kingly Perspective the Tacoma/Seattle aspect of that work in order to free myself and Caesar up for the National/International work
In brief, we believe God is leading Soma to establish City Center Hubs in at least the above cities that have in place:
  1. At least one resourcing and sending church that equips, sends and resources church planting teams to saturate the surrounding region with Gospel Communities on Mission
  2. An apostolic/equipping team that assists in breaking new ground evangelistically, establishes Gospel Foundations for new churches, identifies and appoints elders for local churches, provides ongoing training for future expansion and organizes for the ongoing resourcing of a region
  3. Soma School for immersion training of new leaders and planters in a region
  4. Church-based theological centers that are fully accredited (BA, MA, DMin) so that members can remain in their churches and on mission while being equipped theologically
  5. Communication tools and structures to enable connectivity and ongoing resourcing/equipping from key movement leaders beyond the region to the nation and world
We anticipate that this will "bleed" into the Eastern half of N. America as well as Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa and S. America as well...but all of this is way beyond us...we are submitting all of this to the builder of the Church - Jesus Christ.

Would you join with us in prayer as we depend on Him to lead, guide and provide?

Jeff