Florida Church Planters and GCMI Partnership for Miami
While the city of Miami is home to half a million residents, the metro area of Miami is just over 6 million people. Forty-two percent of those living in metro Miami were born outside of the US in nations including Cuba, Colombia, Haiti, Brazil, and Venezuela and other locations throughout Latin America. Miami is also home to significant Jewish communities, Middle Eastern peoples, and Hindu and Muslim South Asians. As a secular city, nearly half of Miami residents never attend religious services of any kind.
Last year, a conversation began when Jeff Swearingen, Executive Director of Florida Church Planters, and Chris Marsden, Director of Ministry Dynamics at Global City Mission Initiative, crossed paths at a ministry event. The conversation continued over the next year. Last Spring, as they met together in St. Petersburg it became clear that a partnership was well underway. Both ministries share a deep desire to see the gospel advance in the metro area of Miami. Over the next year or so, FCP and GCMI will be working together to discover & mobilize catalytic church planters to serve the incredibly diverse communities of Miami. We hope to see work begin on the ground by 2026.
Join us in prayer as we begin this new partnership, seeking to mobilize missionary church planters and to have impact in the greater Miami Metro area. If you are interested in learning more, please reach out here.
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