The 'Wiki Encyclopedia of CityReaching' is collaboratively sponsored by the 'Center For Urban Innovation'... "Producing Innovative CityReachers."

Future...

"Innovative is not so much about technology,

 as it is about... OPPORTUNITY."

[Forgive us for this very elementary launch of a page to help (everyone, someday) develop our collective capability to readily consider changes we observe around us, and especially as it may greatly impact the cause of reaching our cities for Christ.Below, we've not nearly considered everything that needs to be thought through.  Thus YOU may want to help develop this wiki-page as a TOOL for helping everyone think into the future year... and beyond.  Envisioning our future together may well serve to help us actually pray, plan and 'DO' together.]

Who?

What's in our future?

• [Notably, we'll want to readily refer readers to the Research Center... to note the latest research helpful to cityreaching.]

• But importantly... consider the research reporting 'lag-time'... You're getting old information... but the question is how old?  Thus how relevant today?

• And importantly... put those driving factors into motion toward helping us think about the future.  Illustration:  Consider hearing all the local weather facts from last January.  How helpful is it today?  Ok, what about the stats from yesterday's weather report?  Today's stats?  We could draw all sorts of (wrong) conclusions about tomorrow if draw simply from the historical static facts.  Thankfully, meterologists don't stop there -- they also put the radar loop into MOTION... which helps us see current trends... helping us to then consider the days ahead.

• And very importantly... consider the convergence of driving factors into motion toward helping us think about the future.  Again using our weather illustration...   Our meteorologists continue that motion, projecting the weather in terms of the days ahead.  But these models don't simplistically project the future based on ONE single factor.  Instead their model tries to determine the future based on a number of interacting factors.  Thus what may seem to untrained eyes to be a sun shiny day, may in fact be leading toward a hurricane arriving tomorrow.  Point is:  Don't short-cut to a simplistic conclusion too quickly.
• Case in point:    Let's hypothesize about a potential coming 'revolution'... Call it renewal.  Or transformation.  Innovation.  Change.  What might be the significant driving factors?

   

• Another Example:   Pew Research posted this great presentation as a part of their 'Internet Evolution' series.  They seem to only take a snapshot of today's world... re internet, broadband, skills, ages, and current usages re tv, radio, newspapers & online news,   What they seem to have failed to do, is to put their snapshot(s) into MOTION... especially as some driving factors (age, educational gains, skills-improvement, leadership transitioning, technology-improvements, cultural acceptance of new media, broadband availability, decreased economics of mainstream media due to competition, etc.... CONVERGE.  And then accelerate it all by a factor pertaining to increased critical mass.  [ie, if all your friends have a telephone, you will get one despite every conceivable objection.]
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When?

• Collaborative 'TIMELINE' thinking.   Don't think 'calendar' -- that's way too passive.  We all have busy 'calendars'.  The greater question is, what are the PRIORITY items on your future timeline??? As people gather for timeline thinking, they begin to consider more possibilities of COLLABORATIVELY working together in their cities.  Each person helps the others think ahead.  That is a key capabilitity cityreachers need to develop.
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Where?

Why?

How?

• Timeline thinking.
• Videos stimulating our considerations of the future?  That is, can you develop a futuristic video portraying the way your city MIGHT LOOK as driven Christians increasingly work together toward completing the Great Commission?
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