Connecting People for Collective Impact

Citygate incubates and develops networks with churches and other partners around key societal issues to collaboratively transform our city and country for good. 

While denominations continue to play a key role in connecting churches, increasingly people of faith are collaborating for other reasons which Citygate recognizes and nurtures. These reasons include:

1. Context: Most of the networks we are developing are within Metro Vancouver. Forming city networks allows for face to face communication and greater collaborative effort. The Coalition around Reimagining Church, Land and Community is a national effort with regional conferences.
2. Crises: Certain of our networks have emerged as churches and groups respond to critical needs such as increasing poverty in schools, refugees, isolation, unaffordable housing, etc.
3. Creative Work: Our collective networks around Recovering the Art of Neighboring and The Bell (Public Theology writers’ group) have arisen because of the individual creative responses emerging in our city.

Forming networks is a way to resource ongoing collective impact. Collective impact is the added transformational effect that results from working together with other churches and groups.