Making an Impact on Your City

•Three Nationwide CIty Transformaiton Calls

>You are invited to the cityreaching call next Thursday, March 16th at 10:00 a.m. central time. Our special guest will be Pastor and Author Francis Frangipane whose most recent book is A House United: How Christ-Centered Unity Can End Church Division. Dr. Frangipane will be our keynote speaker at the City Impact Roundtable in Cedar Rapids, Iowa April 3-5. To participate in this call, email info@cityreaching.com requesting the dial in #.

>Last Tuesday Cityreaching Call

Our March 28 call will feature what God has been and is doing in Birmingham, AL. The church in Birmingham has focused their resources on one neighborhood in a holistic manner.

Together they are serving the West End community in many areas, including spiritual revitalization, healthcare, economic empowerment, crime prevention, and tech training. Join us at 9 a.m. (Pacific time)(noon Eastern) to hear more. Call 563-843-7429, then code 643 706.

>Barney Field of El Paso For Jesus convenes a monthly half hour call for experienced cityreachers on the first Tuesday of each month at 10 a.m. Email info@cityreaching.com for the number.

•CIR Annual Meeting Details

No doubt you regularly weigh and pray through numerous invitations to conferences, workshops, denominational or organizational meetings and gatherings of all kinds. If you are anything like me, you ask, Is this worth my time, money and energy? Good questions. A growing number of cityreachers have already registered.

If you have not, I want to challenge you to consider participating in the annual City Impact Roundtable in Cedar Rapids, April 3-5. Why?
· Our main, plain focus will be given to veteran practitioners sharing what Jesus Christ is doing in their city, with time built in for productive interaction.
· You will see and hear what God is doing in cities of different size and profile
· You will network and connect meaningfully with other men and women, existing and emerging leaders of like passion
· You will be enriched from the Word of God from Francis Frangipane, longtime practitioner of city unity in Cedar Rapids.
All this and more can be yours in Cedar Rapids, Iowa April 3-5, 2006. Go to www.cityreaching.com and register today. SAVE $25 by registering before March 15th. Details follow.

Tom White, Convener, 2006 National City Impact Roundtable

•Annual City Impact Roundtable
April 3-5, 2006

The City Impact Roundtable (CIR) is a network of like-minded men and women, working in partnership with City Community Ministries of the Mission America Coalition, committed to bring kingdom leaders together in cities to engage in earnest prayer, collaborate evangelism and social justice. Cityreachers, representing varying streams of a growing paradigm of transformational change, want to see impact of God's kingdom on society that is both measurable and sustainable.

The National CIR is an annual learning community of all interested in serious city-reaching endeavors.
"Pray for the city, because if it prospers, you too will prosper..." Jeremiah 29:7

When and Where?
From 1 PM Monday, April 3, to noon Wednesday, April 5 at
First Assembly of God
3233 Blairs Ferry Rd. N. E.
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

What's the Program?
Hearing the Word of the Lord. Francis Frangipane, one of the longtime spiritual fathers of Cedar Rapids, and well-known prolific author, will be this year's plenary speaker. Francis will bring us a creative word that is both prophetic and practical.

City Models. Based on extensive feedback from former CIRs, we will focus on our "main, plain" purpose: experienced practitioners unpack the core principles and best practices of city movements that have life, momentum and promise. As of today, we have five cities committed to present their models:

Cedar Rapids, IA
Houston, TX
Tuscaloosa AL
Coachella Valley, CA (Palm Springs area)
A regional model from El Paso TX, Las Cruces NM and Juarez MEXICO
Little Rock, AR

Extensive time will be given to hear these presentations and interact together about the strengths & weaknesses of these models. Presenters from these cities will be further available at two meals for "Table Talk" Q & A interaction. These presentations will involve a mix of pastors, men and women in marketplace ministries, emerging leaders, and social justice ministries.

Workshops. Workshops currently on the pad:
The Why, What, Who & Cost of Being a City-Reacher
Trench Talk: Issues Relevant to Veteran City Practitioners
Walking Out Righteousness & Justice in the City Context
Loving Our Cities to Christ
Accelerating City-Reaching at the Speed of Light - (internet blogging)
Building & Implementing Citywide Prayer
Making Disciples: the Heart of the City Movement
Comparing & Contrasting City Leadership Team Models
Dynamics Unique to the Mega-City Movement

For maximum benefit, we strongly encourage a city to bring at least three, and ideally 5-7 members of its leadership team.

What Will the CIR Cost?
Registration $125 before March 15
Late Registration $150 after March 15
Single Day registration $50 per individual

The registration includes a Monday evening banquet, Tuesday box lunch, and Tuesday dinner buffet. A free airport shuttle is also provided for arrivals and departures. We encourage you to take immediate initiative to book in accommodations for yourself and city team members at one of the local motels at very reasonable rates. Our host, Charles Daugherty, is arranging shuttle transportation from the motels to the church. Motel information as well as airport to motel shuttle information is available at www.cityreaching.com (upper right column on home page).

Click on the "CIR Registration" link to download your registration form.
You may direct questions to any of the following:

Tom White, Frontline Ministries, North American CIR Convener: tomwhite07@earthlink.net
Jarvis Ward, City/Community Ministries (MAC) jarvis@cityreaching.com
Phil Miglioratti "LC2C Strategy Team" (MAC) phil@nppn.org

(Please note: Registration does not include lodging.)


•Cityreachers lead the way in internet blogging
Neil Cox, Phil Miglioratti and Joe Walsh are leading the way as cityreaching bloggers. Neil’s http://indychristian.com/ invites us to consider IndyChristian.com as a “Daily Internet Starting-line” Look for a button labeled “How to use this site."

http://www.nppn.org offers 5 blogspots by Pastor Phil (Miglioratti). They are NPPN Now, Praying Pastor, Prayer Leaders, One Great City (Chicago) and Pray for Surf, an interesting outreach to Beach Boy fans (think creative outreach)

Joe Walsh hosts http://www.ccnews.org, with a blog called CityBlews.net, Aggregated posts from Christian city portals around the country. He also lists blogs from several cities.

You will want to take advantage of their workshop at the CIR in Cedar Rapids.