CityShakers
A MODEL THAT IMPACTS CITIES
#CityShakers has developed a model for reaching cities and causing sustainable impact and transformation. Admittedly, the conference is the most popular but CityShakers is more than just the conference. It is a movement designed for long term and sustainable citywide impact and comprises of the following:
1. #CityReach – A Good News campaign that sees our team partnering with local churches, organisations etc to develop and implement a strategic outreach plan which will see key targeted areas and groups systematically reached with the Good News. This is normally held before the conference but our heart is to plant the seed so that our local partners can continue collaborating long after the conference is finished.
2. #CityServe – A partnership with local churches, organisations and individuals etc who commit to ‘bless’ their city through practical works or justice, compassion and love. As they say, “The name of Jesus is one side of the coin which is already famous. His love is the other side and there is still a lot of work needed to make His love famous”. #CityServe initiatives can start pre conference and extend beyond the conference dates. Infact, our desire is for this to be the everyday norm in our cities: believers joining hands to bless their city.
3. #CityArts - A creative arts and media ministry which provides a platform for local artists and creatives to build relationships, fellowship, learn and collaborate. CityArts comprises of various initiatives such as #CityRecords - an inhouse record label; #CityStars - a grassroots talent search initiative; #UNLEASH - a conference for creatives and various performing groups and events.
4. #CitySchools – A partnership with local schools and tertiary institutions which sees local churches ‘adopting a school’ and running school based programmes that seek to build the young people morally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Our philosophy behind this is simple, “Catch them young”. We can raise a next generation of leaders with integrity, walking in purity, passionate about God and patriotically serving their nations by investing in their holistic development today.
The Conference
#CityShakers Conference is typically a 3 day conference that aims to gather thousands of young adults in a 100 cities around the world to equip, empower and release them as revivalists (agents of transformation and kingdom advancement) back into their spheres of influence to ‘shine the light and love of Jesus’. Key things to note:
Programme – The conference normally runs for 2 days with the programme typically kicking off on a Friday night and running till Saturday night. It consists of 4 Sessions (2 evening & 2 day sessions on Saturday), with different speakers and worship bands leading the sessions.
Venue – Where possible, we desire to partner with a local church(es) to co-host the conference at their venue. The benefits of this are greater than hosting the conference at a public venue.
Local Involvement - Each conference, we try and listen to who the Lord would have us invite to speak. We always involve one or more local speakers in the speaking schedule in their city. Furthermore, we also engage local churches and partners to provide worship band(s); dancers; performers etc to participate in partnership with our CityShakers Band and Arts Team.
Outreach – We also involve our partners in the outreach initiatives we will do both pre and post conference. Our heart is to be able to connect all new friends, believers etc we make during our outreach initiatives with the local churches that we are working with so that they can be grafted into a local church community and continuously discipled.
Lasting Fruits – The local partners, in most cases, will enjoy the following as fruits of the conference: new believers; renewed and revived believers; new relationships with other churches and the greater community; greater citywide recognition and influence etc
To read more, click here
#CityShakers has developed a model for reaching cities and causing sustainable impact and transformation. Admittedly, the conference is the most popular but CityShakers is more than just the conference. It is a movement designed for long term and sustainable citywide impact and comprises of the following:
1. #CityReach – A Good News campaign that sees our team partnering with local churches, organisations etc to develop and implement a strategic outreach plan which will see key targeted areas and groups systematically reached with the Good News. This is normally held before the conference but our heart is to plant the seed so that our local partners can continue collaborating long after the conference is finished.
2. #CityServe – A partnership with local churches, organisations and individuals etc who commit to ‘bless’ their city through practical works or justice, compassion and love. As they say, “The name of Jesus is one side of the coin which is already famous. His love is the other side and there is still a lot of work needed to make His love famous”. #CityServe initiatives can start pre conference and extend beyond the conference dates. Infact, our desire is for this to be the everyday norm in our cities: believers joining hands to bless their city.
3. #CityArts - A creative arts and media ministry which provides a platform for local artists and creatives to build relationships, fellowship, learn and collaborate. CityArts comprises of various initiatives such as #CityRecords - an inhouse record label; #CityStars - a grassroots talent search initiative; #UNLEASH - a conference for creatives and various performing groups and events.
4. #CitySchools – A partnership with local schools and tertiary institutions which sees local churches ‘adopting a school’ and running school based programmes that seek to build the young people morally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Our philosophy behind this is simple, “Catch them young”. We can raise a next generation of leaders with integrity, walking in purity, passionate about God and patriotically serving their nations by investing in their holistic development today.
The Conference
#CityShakers Conference is typically a 3 day conference that aims to gather thousands of young adults in a 100 cities around the world to equip, empower and release them as revivalists (agents of transformation and kingdom advancement) back into their spheres of influence to ‘shine the light and love of Jesus’. Key things to note:
Programme – The conference normally runs for 2 days with the programme typically kicking off on a Friday night and running till Saturday night. It consists of 4 Sessions (2 evening & 2 day sessions on Saturday), with different speakers and worship bands leading the sessions.
Venue – Where possible, we desire to partner with a local church(es) to co-host the conference at their venue. The benefits of this are greater than hosting the conference at a public venue.
Local Involvement - Each conference, we try and listen to who the Lord would have us invite to speak. We always involve one or more local speakers in the speaking schedule in their city. Furthermore, we also engage local churches and partners to provide worship band(s); dancers; performers etc to participate in partnership with our CityShakers Band and Arts Team.
Outreach – We also involve our partners in the outreach initiatives we will do both pre and post conference. Our heart is to be able to connect all new friends, believers etc we make during our outreach initiatives with the local churches that we are working with so that they can be grafted into a local church community and continuously discipled.
Lasting Fruits – The local partners, in most cases, will enjoy the following as fruits of the conference: new believers; renewed and revived believers; new relationships with other churches and the greater community; greater citywide recognition and influence etc
To read more, click here