It's Messy, but God Rewards Kingdom Risk

We make plans, we cast vision, we try to move forward in advancing the mission and message.

by Fred Harrell

City Church in San Francisco talked about being a "movement of churches" from its inception in 1997, planting churches regionally in the Bay Area as we grew the urban "mother church" in the city--an anchor church that would spawn scores of new churches.

That bold talk was put to the test a few years later. It was scary. We identified two church planters for Marin County and Berkeley, two of the most secular and unchurched places in northern California. The Marin church would start in one year, the Berkeley church plant the next. This we could afford financially...

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