CRM teams minister in major American metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix, Denver, Portland and Washington, D.C.
InnerCHANGE, CRM’s ministry among the poor, places specially trained staff teams in the inner-cites of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Caracas, and cities in Cambodia and Romania.
Internationally, CRM teams minister in Australia, Hungary, France, Romania, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Venezuela, Japan, Singapore, East Asia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Cambodia, South Africa, Canada and Great Britain.
What Do We Hope to Accomplish?
CRM envisions movements of fresh, authentic churches, pioneered by godly leaders, fired by a passion for their world, compelled to multiply their lives and ministry; so the name of God is renowned among the nations.
CRM Model of Ministry?
Our Model of Ministry is a description of our strategy . . . the distinctives of how we move from what we do toward results. To accomplish our vision:
CRM creates
Communities of Transformation
and
Mentoring relationships
in which leaders are empowered.
This strategy is accomplished in four primary contexts:
- Among church planters
- Among pastors and lay leaders
- Among selected unevangelized urban settings and people groups
- Among the poor
By create we mean: CRM staff catalyze and shape multiple forms of communities and mentoring relationships. While our staff will primarily lead, they will also coach others to lead and will train others to coach.
By communities of transformation we mean: the type of small groups or cells where leaders can know and be known. It means safe environments where there is transparency, honesty and the type of accountability that promotes genuine spiritual growth and authentic change.
By mentoring relationships we mean: The deeply human, one-to-one connections where life and skills are transferred. It is the experience in which one person empowers another by sharing God-given resources in the type of relationship beyond what can be experienced in a group setting. Such mentoring relationships include those of a discipler, coach, teacher, sponsor or model.
Among existing leaders - pastors, church planters, and lay leaders - our communities of transformation take the form of reproducible systems such as New Church Incubators, New Church Networks, Focusing Leaders Networks, ReFocusing Church/Ministry Networks, and Spiritual Formation Communities.
Where few or no leaders exist - in unevangelized urban setting and among the poor - our communities of transformation take the shape of small groups for seekers, creative cell groups, discipleship clusters, and ministry that is highly incarnational.