Stories

We are in the month of January and the weather is cold and the daylight is short. As ministry leaders, we can start to lose energy and focus. In this season, a disproportional amount of people leave staff or make poor decisions. Considering this, we need to be proactive and be aware.

A letter from Jason Wilson, co lead pastor of Citylight Kansas City.

Residency Programs can be vital to church multiplication. A Residency Program’s typical goal is to provide direct development in a particular ministry calling. The hope is to see each resident equipped and developed for the ministry calling God has for him or her.

Salt Church Greeley was planted in 2022 by a core team that was made up of 30 people from 14 different churches. With such a diverse group, strengths and giftings were abundant. Also with such a diverse team, many opportunities to grow in understanding, communication, and humility were made.

The vision of the Citylight Family is to plant churches in key cities so that those church plants are the catalysts for the multiplication of hundreds of new churches and tens of thousands of new disciples over the coming years.

God has given us grace in church planting and as we prayed on where next, we are now asking if its Sioux Falls.

Church planting is a command, a necessity, and both a joy and burden. For the Citylight Family of Churches, it is a shared value and one of the main components of our DNA. This past spring, at the Citylight Family pastor’s retreat, Erick Whigham, co-lead pastor of Citylight Council Bluffs, was reminded of this mission with a new and fresh perspective.

Radiant City joins the Citylight Family and becomes the second church partnership in Florida. Radiant City is bound by love, relationship, and a common goal of mission led by pastor Cliff McCray. Get to know Radiant City and how you can be praying for them.