About our faith & leadership

Spreading the gospel

throughout the world’s cities

Beginning with Prayer

Starting back as early as the 1980s, the roots for Movement.org had two primary foundations: a commitment to cities and a commitment to prayer. When Concerts of Prayer founder Mac Pier first moved to New York in 1984, only 9,000 of the 1,500,000 residents in Manhattan attended a Christian church. In response, organizations like InterVarsity and Here’s Life Inner City partnered together to ask for God to move in a mighty way in their city and, by 1988, the Concerts of Prayer Movement was born.

Multiplied by Leaders

Over the next three decades, what eventually came to be known as Concerts of Prayer Greater New York grew into a network of 2,000 churches spread throughout the city. As new churches began to emerge, new efforts were made to develop church planting leaders. In 2003, leaders such as Tim Keller and many others started The Church Multiplication Alliance, resulting in a 300% growth in churches throughout Manhattan.

Launching a Movement

This increase in leaders created a growing need for resourcing and equipping the work happening in the city. As a response, The New York Leadership Center was established in 2008 to engage and connect Christian leaders in the church, nonprofit, and marketplace sectors. This same work still continues today within New York City. January 2025 will be the 35th Annual Pastors Prayer Summit and October 2024 will be the 15th Movement Day. The work continues in New York City!

Expanding to the World

What began in NYC eventually found new opportunities for application in cities around the world, leading the New York City Leadership Center to multiply over time into expressions with both a local focus (LEAD.NYC) and an expanded focus (MOVEMENT.ORG). In order to create a catalytic point for facilitating relationships and collaborative work, the first “Movement Day” event was held in NYC in 2010. This model found great success, and Movement Day events continue to catalyze city gospel movements around the world. MOVEMENT CITIES, the current expression of all of the work being done outside of NYC, comes alongside local leaders around the world to launch and accelerate gospel movements that support the spiritual and social flourishing of the city.

Leadership Team

Mac Pier

Founder

Josh Miles

Managing Director

Tenets of Faith

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood.
We believe in the soul saving power of His bodily resurrection and His ascension to the right hand of the Father. And we believe in His inevitable return in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. The express mandate of the church is to fulfill the Great Commission.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, indwelling, and enabling Christ’s followers to live godly lives.
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost – that they are saved unto the resurrection of life and that they are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.