{"id":10651,"date":"2025-11-04T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.movement.org\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:51:51","slug":"forum-unites-church-and-marketplace-leaders-to-impact-500-asian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movement.org\/es\/forum-unites-church-and-marketplace-leaders-to-impact-500-asian-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum Unites Church and Marketplace Leaders to Impact 500 Asian Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Mac Pier
\nFounder, Movement.org \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 28-30, SG 500 Asian Cities hosted its annual forum, which was attended by 300 delegates from 30 nations and 70 cities.<\/p>\n

Represented nations included Iran, Israel, Indonesia, Iraq, UAE, Jordan, Mongolia, China, and Russia.\u00a0\u00a0Gen Z made up 55% of the total attendees. The program was formatted around the \u201c5 Opens,\u201d including Open Heavens (prayer), Open Hearts (generosity), Open Homes (discipleship), Open Highways (media and business), Open Hallways (government and education) and Geo Networks (Movement Day and Arise Asia). The strategy is to create integrated, contextual models for each of the 500 cities, resulting in measurable church growth. \u00a0A 2% growth in Christianity in a decade would result in 100M new conversions for Asia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jess Chin, a member of the Movement.org Board and Global Advisory Team, spoke powerfully on the potential of the next generation, reflecting on leaders from American Awakenings including Jonathan Dickinson, a Presbyterian Minister as the first President of Princeton University. She said there are stirrings presently on 300 American campuses.<\/p>\n

Movement.org\u00a0is functioning as the backbone organization to provide Asia wide coordination and leveraging the Movement Day Scholars Program training to inspire, connect, and catalyze a 10-year collaborative model in each city. Arise Asia is a fresh movement challenging young Asian Christians to go where there is no gospel. There are 4.4B people in Asia outside of Christianity, representing 1.1B more than the combined populations of the other five continents.<\/p>\n

A primary outcome of this SG500 has been the creation of a modified Scholars curriculum for young urban leaders called Metro Movement Collective. This will be launched in July 2026 at the Kuala Lumpur Arise Asia Congress with 5,000 delegates. The operating conviction is that 85% of the attendees of this congress will stay in their respective cities.<\/p>\n

SINGAPORE HOSTING<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Singapore Team, led by Tim Wong, brilliantly and generously hosted the Forum. \u00a0They provided significant scholarship assistance to many under-resourced leaders to travel and attend.<\/p>\n

His hospitality initiative reflects 50 years of leadership from Canon James Wong, now carried forward by his son Tim and their dedicated team. Singapore is the most strategically positioned city in Asia to host and catalyze Asia wide efforts.<\/p>\n

DISCOVERY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the past year we have learned a great deal about how God is stirring in Asia. The biggest discovery has been China Partnership, which is present in 192 cities in China. Movement South Asia is present in 140 cities. Frontiers, a Muslim outreach mission, has presence in ~300 cities. Of the 500 largest cities, these three agencies are working\u00a0very serendipitously. Our primary point of contact with China Partnership, Jeff Kyle, lives in NYC. \u00a0We have met several times in the past year. Another NYC colleague is Yucan Chiu, who is a senior leader at City to City. He very much wants to build on our history for the future.\u00a0We were able to create a map that showed our current collective presence across 300 cities in Asia<\/p>\n

FORUM OUTCOMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are working off the TABLE acronym:<\/p>\n