Overseeing
all our networking efforts is the Coordinator of Strategic
Alliances,
Dr. Edward Gross,
who is a PCA
(Presbyterian Church in America) pastor and
staff member at CityNet. Ed's primary role is a Pastoral
encourager who:
- Contacts urban pastors to understand their vision and ministry, related pressures, loneliness issues, and limited assets, to encourage, help, pray with and for them.
- Helps connect like-minded pastors and Christian leaders ministering in the same community for a regular time of nurturing, fellowship, mutual accountability and prayer.
- Helps to work mergers of local congregations to build a greater unity that achieves the renewed vision and critical mass needed to effectively make changes.
- Teaches LAMPhilly courses and represents the LAMP program to local churches and alliances.
- Finds existing men's groups and helps build new groups who will develop The Men's Fraternity in their fellowship, seeking to unite with other men in their community as the leaders God has made all men to be.
- Discovers pockets of immigrant residency (and any existing ministries reaching them) to encourage and coordinate ministry as needed to these diverse people groups.
NETWORKING
A KEY ELEMENT in CityNet Ministries outreach is in connecting local leaders to one another, and to resources in the larger community. We call this connection networking, but we like to think of it as working the net. We help pastors and church leaders network with one another in the following ways.
how we do it
Word and deed delivered close at hand and to communities of need. By helping churches and ministries know about, and hopefully connect with, other urban and mercy outreaches, CityNet is a resource for networking and support.
Cooperative
Ministries
Strategic alliances of prayer, worship, outreach and urban-focused mercy ministry, resource development, ministry projects and events - coordinated equipping and training of leaders and other events.
Social
Networking
Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like communities or a neighborhood. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in churches or in the workplace, it is most popular online. Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users where participants have access to on-line resources, such as contact with other pastors and church leaders, articles, blogs, profiles, videos, training material, and much, much more.