The story of City to City has two plot lines. One is about the growing network of movement-minded folks outside the United States. The other is about the growing number of connected churches within New York City. Today’s conversation is with Mai Hariu-Powell, who belongs to the New York City storyline. At the time of this interview, Mai was executive director for the New York Project, a 10-year joint initiative of Redeemer City to City and Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
The main objective of the New York Project was to plant 250 churches in New York’s five boroughs. You can learn more about their work and their progress at NewYorkProject.com.
Mai gives us a view of a gospel movement from the operational side of things. She coordinated fundraising for the New York Project for almost a decade. And it’s easy to see why she was so successful. Her enthusiasm for the diverse body of Christ in New York is contagious.
More from our guest
You can learn more about City to City’s work in New York City here and more about the now-completed New York Project here.
The NYC team produced a podcast series called Gospel Legacy in NYC. This episode highlights Mai and City to City’s Chairman of the Board, James Herring, as they talk about the New York Project.
Here’s a brief 2015 article by Mai from Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Redeemer Report on “Public faith: Being a church for the skeptic and the Christian.”
In the Fire is Lit podcast and in the above article, Mai mentions a program called “Questioning Christianity.” You can access that content, led by Tim Keller, in this podcast series, produced by Gospel in Life.
Mai mentions a growing “gospel movement” in NYC. In this article, Tim Keller defines the term “gospel movement.”
