The team’s “God-sized vision” includes having a missional community near every stop. In London, the GCI initiative involves using the city’s 280-plus underground tube stops as key points for missional communities. The goal is that as members of the people groups are transformed by the Gospel while living in the cities, they will return to their homelands as indigenous missionaries. The five GCI cities were selected based on their potential for global influence as well as their vast numbers of unengaged, unreached people groups. Recognizing global migration patterns from rural to urban settings, IMB has named London – along with Dubai, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and a major city in South Asia (unnamed for security purposes) – as focal points in piloting a Global Cities Initiative. The Anglican Church alone saw a 33 percent drop during this span. In 2015, that number had soared to 44.7 percent. In 1963, 3.2 percent of London’s population claimed to have no affiliation with religion. ![]() More than 300 languages are spoken in London, and 37 percent of the city’s population was born outside the U.K., one-fourth of whom have moved to London in the last five years.Ī city that once served as fertile ground for great Christian preaching and churches, London has grown fallow over the last 50 years. “There’s no lack of church buildings in London, but the average congregation is fewer than 20 people,” Roberts noted. More than 50 non-indigenous communities, each with 10,000 people or more, have been identified in London, making it truly a global city. ![]() LONDON (BP) – James Roberts is part of an International Mission Board team in London strategizing a comprehensive missions approach to reach this city of 8.6 million.
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