You're the God of the Cities

A City is unique in that it is not solely composed of one people group.  When you travel to a rural village within a people group area you are likely to find that most people speak a particular language, dress a certain way and are from the predominate tribe of the area – not so in a city.

Cities contain a plethora of people groups speaking their own language or dialect with unique customs and style of dress all within walking distance of one another – sometimes in the same apartment complex.

Cities make the issue of unique people groups very blurry because people tend to meld into and add to their own customs something of their surroundings.  For example, how many of your parents (those of us 40 years of age and older) ate tacos or enchiladas on a regular basis – we know our parents didn't –  but we eat Tex-Mexican food all the time now – we added it to our cultural food base. This same adaptation happens in large cities across the globe.

Recently we attended a workshop on reaching cities.

This picture was taken during a
prayer focus on Nairobi.

Dialogues  about reaching communities in constant motion, whether physically relocating or culturally and linguistically adapting were conducted between missionaries and nationals from all over Sub-Saharan Africa.

It was a good time of hearing from other parts of the continent and brainstorming ideas on reaching the cities of East Africa.

The meeting was held at the Baptist camp.
The words "Jesus Saves" in the Africaans language
is written in white stone on the hillside as a witness.

Ultimately we know that God is the God of the cities -- He is the King of these people – the Lord of the nations – the Light in the darkness – the Hope to the hopeless – the Peace to the restless.  There is no one like our God.




Pray for God to call out people willing to go to the cities -- they have their own unique challenges -- it will take God called, unique individuals, to reach the people who live in them.