Annual Report 2025

City to City Japan has run Japanese language Intensives since 2022, where local trainers and coaches walk alongside church planters to see the gospel renew hearts and cities. These Intensives have become a catalyst for deeper formation, equipping leaders with gospel-centrality that transforms ministry from striving to sonship.

In 2025, six new monthly Incubators emerged across Yokohama, Chiba, Osaka, Nagoya, Naha, and Sapporo, drawing individual pastors and entire church teams into immersive, contextualized learning. Within Incubators, the gospel is bridging divides between pastors and missionaries, and cultivating trust where tensions may have surfaced. This is a steady movement of gospel renewal, marked by humility, collaboration, and the deepening work of grace in Japan’s cities.

City to City Taipei pioneered heart language Intensives, holding the first Mandarin Intensive in 2018. In 2025, breakthroughs emerged: a Southern Taiwan Intensive opened doors to a major denomination with limited prior exposure, while another partnership trained 300 leaders in gospel-centered ministry. These initiatives strengthened collaborative ecosystems and expanded gospel influence across denominational lines.

Significantly, pastors-turned-trainers experienced gospel renewal that reshaped their ministries and communities. In imparting this to their teams, gospel centrality began to transcend traditional boundaries between churches, spurring involvement for the good of the city and the sake of the gospel.

Set in multi-cultural, multi-racial, highly-urbanized Malaysia, Gospel City Network has been entrusted with the unique task of equipping leaders in multiple languages. In 2025, the team conducted the second Mandarin Mini-Intensive, the first English Mini-Intensive, and the first in-person Parakaleo Basic Intensive — reaching 100 leaders in total.

A 10-session weekly Incubator with the Bible College of Malaysia achieved seminary accreditation and broadened engagement with new denominations. And ahead of its 2026 public launch, Flourish Hill — a church plant of Gospel City Church, itself a CTC plant — covenanted as a church and voted in their pastors. This second-generation plant is a tangible expression of churches planting churches.

City to City Indonesia has run three Bahasa Indonesia Intensives since 2022. What began with 58 participants has grown to 160 in 2025 — reflecting hunger for the gospel. Driven by the desire of Intensive alumni to gather in their own cities, an organic gospel ecosystem has formed, with Gospel Forums on renewal hosted in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya.

The team executed 40 events in 2025 — Gospel Forums, post-Intensive coaching, and preaching cohorts — and partnered with like-minded ministries: GRAMI (gospel-centered teaching through multimedia and apologetics), Living Word (faithful theological publishing), and @ideclare.id (a youth-focused digital ministry).

After devastating floods and mudslides in November 2025, the church coordinated a massive relief operation — cooking 15,000 meals and distributing dry rations to 1,500 families. The powerful witness led a police officer to remark that he had never seen any group work with such dedication. A Buddhist monk sent a formal letter thanking the church for feeding people sheltering in his temple.

In Kandy, four pastors adapted the "Gospel as Story" module into a complete Sunday school curriculum — eight age-grouped sessions called "The Big Story" — and trained teachers to roll it out to children. The Gospel in the City event in the Sinhala language extended our network to a new group of leaders. In crisis and discipleship, gospel renewal continues to shape Sri Lanka’s witness of grace and restoration.

After many years of leadership development and undergirding prayer, City to City Nepal officially launched in 2025 — a new chapter of organizational identity and gospel-centered collaboration. The team made inroads into Bharatpur city with a Gospel in the City event for 47 leaders. One pastor experienced a profound breakthrough in the "Praying Like a Child" session, learning for the first time to bring his small concerns to God with vulnerability.

Momentum continued through the City Conference in Kathmandu, which gathered 161 leaders and introduced a new “Praying for the City” model, deepening intercession for local contexts. At the Faith & Work Forum, a young professional discovered that his daily labor glorifies God when done with gospel motivation. Together, these moments reflect a movement of renewal—where grace reshapes prayer, vocation, and citywide mission.