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Field notes from the continents

Continental Deep Dives

City movement leaders from across the world, sharing how the gospel is taking root in their cities — and the shared pathway emerging from their stories.

The synthesis · featured

Trust Is the Pathway

What the continental deep dives teach us about how city movements grow — from isolated burden to shared, durable, multiplying engagement. By Jacob Bloemberg.

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One pathway, six continents

Field notes by region

Each deep dive brings its own accent — yet the same lesson keeps rising: city movements grow through trust.

Rio de Janeiro harbourLatin America
José Durán

Trust, trust, trust — the currency of the kingdom

From hard-won mistakes in Guatemala City came the clearest language of the pathway: city first, trust before strategy, and local leaders who reproduce in new cities with their own flavour.

Amber Fort, Jaipur, IndiaSouth Asia
Jerince Peter

Mapping Kolkata: when red zones turn yellow

Jerince's team mapped the city's pin codes and found more than a hundred with no church presence. Made visible, the gaps became shared responsibility — and the city began to change.

Sydney Harbour, AustraliaOceania
Greig Whitaker

From "my church" to "we church"

"You do not love — or know — your city." God shifted Greig's vision from church growth to city love, and oneness tables became the railway tracks on which mission moves.

New York City skyline at duskNorth America
Rob Kelly & Daria Nardozza

Roots before fruit: ecosystems, not isolated ministries

City movements don't grow by accident. North America's gift is patient development — trust, common language, coaching, and the Tree Framework that builds durable, healthy systems.

Amsterdam canal, the NetherlandsEurope
Piet Brinksma

From the margins, the city needs one another

In post-Christendom Europe, Piet calls for an "exegesis of the city." In Amsterdam Southeast, migrant churches reframed themselves as missionaries to the city — needing grace, renewal, and each other.

Cape Town and Table Mountain, South AfricaAfrica · upcoming
With the Movement Day Africa Team

Africa: the deep dive to come

The final continental deep dive — 10 June 2026. Movement Day Africa is cultivating City Gospel Movements in some 40 cities; its voices will refine and strengthen the pathway.