Accelerating urban mission together.
Cities move fast, and leaders often feel pressure to move faster. Lausanne Cities helps city movement leaders slow down to listen, build trust, and learn from one another — so urban mission can grow with depth, wisdom, and shared strength.
- 6Continental deep dives
- 5Catalysts & coordinator
- 50+Years of Lausanne heritage
One network, three ways to grow together
Built by and for the leaders carrying the gospel into the world's cities.
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.
Find & connect
Discover like-minded leaders near you and across the globe. Build the relationships and partnerships that turn isolated effort into citywide collaboration.
Field notes & learning
Read field notes from six continental conversations and explore the TRUST Pathway emerging from them — the network's core body of shared learning.
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.
Voices from the cities of the world
Trust Is the Pathway
What the continental deep dives teach us about how city movements grow — from isolated burden to shared, durable, multiplying engagement. Curated and edited by Jacob Bloemberg.
Read the full article →A harvest across 40 cities — the series is complete
Voices from Uganda, Accra, and Zambia — how Movement Day Africa confirms and completes the TRUST Pathway.
Read the field notes →Cities, faith, and dignity at the World Urban Forum
What WUF13 in Baku reveals about housing, human dignity, and the church's growing seat at the urban policy table.
Read more →Recent and what's coming next
Africa Deep Dive — The final continental gathering
With the Movement Day Africa Team, we heard from leaders cultivating City Gospel Movements in some 40 cities across the continent — completing our six-continent series and strengthening the TRUST Pathway.
With the Movement Day Africa TeamLausanne Cities Network
City Movements in Action — A New Topical Series
Specialist panelists from across the continents, each session going deep on one topic — aligned with the TRUST Pathway. Topics and dates will be shared as the series takes shape.
Hosted by Jacob BloembergLausanne Cities Network
Three ways to take your next step
City leaders
You carry a burden for your city. Join to meet peers across the world who share that calling — and to bring your city's story into the network.
Network leaders
Leading a city network or movement? Explore the TRUST Pathway and deep dives — frameworks built from the ground up by leaders like you.
Partners
Working across cities or connecting organisations? Reach us to explore what collaboration with the Lausanne Cities Network looks like for your context.
Join the network
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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."
- 2025Lausanne–WEA MOU on Cities
A Memorandum of Understanding formalises the partnership between Lausanne Cities and the WEA Commission on Cities, signed in Chiang Mai at the WEA General Assembly. Read the story →
- 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.