Share & learn
Exchange field stories, frameworks, and hard-won wisdom across continents. What God is doing in one city becomes encouragement and strategy for another.
A Lausanne Movement Issue Network
Accelerating urban mission together.
Let the Church declare and display Christ in the cities of the world. We connect local and global city-movement leaders to share, learn, and build trust — discovering how, paradoxically, slowing down to accelerate is the way city movements truly grow.
- 6Continental deep dives
- 5Catalysts & coordinator
- 50+Years of Lausanne heritage
Why we gather
One network, three ways to grow together
Built by and for the leaders carrying the gospel into the world's cities.
Find & connect
Discover like-minded leaders near you and across the globe. Build the relationships and partnerships that turn isolated effort into citywide collaboration.
Curated resources
Access tools, research, and theology of the city — vetted and curated by the network so you spend less time searching and more time building.
The pathway
TRUST: how city movements grow
Across the continental deep dives, the same lesson keeps rising — city movements grow not through speed, but through trust. Slow down to accelerate.
Upcoming gatherings
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Where the network meets next
JUN032026
WUF13 Report — UN-Habitat's World Urban Forum
CitiesCollab shares highlights from the World Urban Forum in Baku — housing, dignity, city flourishing, and faith engagement — plus the road toward WUF14 in Mexico City.
Hosted by Jacob BloembergCitiesCollab · WEA & Lausanne Cities
JUN102026
June Deep Dive — Africa
The final deep dive in our global series. With the Movement Day Africa Team, discover lessons from Africa's city transformation journey — now cultivating City Gospel Movements in some 40 cities.
With the Movement Day Africa TeamLausanne Cities Network
Find your people
Connect with leaders who share your calling
Wherever you serve, you are not alone. Lausanne Cities helps you find like-minded leaders — by region, by city, and by the issues you carry — so collaboration can replace isolation.
- Discover regional networks and the people coordinating them
- Submit your city story and put your context on the map
- Join Lausanne Connect to message and meet fellow leaders
AsiaArise Asia · Love Hanoi · city forums
AfricaUrban movements across the continent
Latin AmericaCity consultations & ecosystems
EuropePost-Christian city collaboration
North AmericaCity gospel movements network
Your city?Add it to the map
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Curated by the network
Resources to learn and lead
Insights, research, and theology of the city — gathered and vetted so you can put them to work.
Field notes
Continental deep dives
Stories and lessons from city leaders across Latin America, Asia, Oceania, North America, Europe — and Africa to come.
Explore the deep dives → The articleTrust Is the Pathway
Jacob Bloemberg on what the continental deep dives teach us about how city movements actually grow.
Read the article → The frameworkThe TRUST Pathway & matrix
Trace, Relate, Unite, Structure, Transfer — with the integrated city-movement matrix across continents.
Explore the pathway → Watch & listenCity Movements in Action
Curated talks and sessions from Seoul, Arise Asia, Love Hanoi and beyond.
Explore → Tools & canvasesCollaborative Action Toolkit
Downloadable canvases and frameworks for building citywide collaboration.
Explore → ReportsGathering Summaries
Executive summaries and outcomes from recent network convenings.
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From the deep dives
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Voices from the cities of the world
Lausanne Cities over time
Fresh action built on deep roots
For over four decades, Lausanne has recognized cities as decisive for global mission — a vision carried by pioneers like Ray Bakke, Glenn Smith, Tim Keller, and Mac Pier, and now by a global network of city leaders.
- 1979A theology of the city
Ray Bakke becomes Lausanne's Senior Associate for Large Cities, calling the global Church to see cities as critical mission fields.
- 1980Christian Witness to Large Cities
The first Lausanne consultation on the world's cities (Pattaya, Thailand) produces a foundational call to urban mission.
- 1989The city turn
Tim Keller plants Redeemer in New York; the Manila Manifesto calls every congregation to turn outward to its city.
- 1990Reading the city
Bakke mentors Glenn Smith, shaping a framework for understanding and transforming cities — refined and taught around the world.
- 2010Two breakfasts in Cape Town
The Cape Town Commitment urges urgent, holistic urban mission; conversations there catalyse a movement for the world's cities.
- 2011A network of city networks
Mac Pier launches Movement Day, mobilising collaborative city leadership across denominations and sectors.
- 2016Movement Day Global Cities
Urban leaders gather from around the world to learn, pray, and strategise for citywide transformation.
- 2024Cities, an Issue Network
At Seoul (Lausanne 4), Cities becomes a Lausanne Issue Network — "let the Church declare and display Christ in the cities of the world."
- 2025–27The TRUST pathway & a meta-network
Continental deep dives surface a shared pathway — Trace, Relate, Unite, Structure, Transfer — and an emerging Global Cities Meta-Network.
Learn & connect
Three ways to take your next step
Connect
Join Lausanne Connect or reach the network coordinator to meet fellow leaders.
Learn
Explore curated resources on collaboration, ecosystems, and urban mission.
Partner
Find your regional network or submit your city story to the network.
Join the network
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