“Global Cities: The Drivers of Economic Growth,” Bruce Katz (h/t J.D.Payne). “Our ultimate intention is to create an international network of leaders from global cities—those that can succeed in trading together and thereby growing together.”
I remember from my very early days in politics hearing that “all politics was local”—e.g. what happened at the city level was in some ways far more important than what happened at the state or federal level. John Robb has been talking a lot about the need to build “resilient communities”—and the Texas town of 6,000 I’m living in right now is one I think would be resilient if anything bad should happen.
Missionary strategy must spend as much time thinking about and planning for both cities and rural areas as they do about people groups. The early Celts (of whom I am so fond of referring to) made cities (well, towns and villages really, but populated places nonetheless) a key part of their missionary strategy.
Do you have a list of urban places in the country you are focused on? Do you know their populations? Have a strategy for reaching them?
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