Cru · Church Movements

Annual
Report

2025 – 2026
May 2025 – April 2026
Gábor Grész, Director
churchmovements.com
Mission Key Metrics Stories Residency Staff Feedback Our Focus
Who we are

Our Mission

Partnering to make Jesus known,
multiply the church,
and serve the city.

In the United States

Our Objective

168 Million unchurched people to reach
168 Thousand missional communities to plant
1.5 Million leaders to mobilize
Our People

Our Team

133
Staff members
26
States represented
80
Cities served
80 Cities Across America
Church Movements Team — 133 staff across 26 states
Impact · 2025

Key Metrics

1
2,500
New believers being followed up in the foundations of faith
2
5,622
In-person gospel conversations where the gospel was fully shared
3
9,504
Spiritual conversations initiated in-person + digitally
4
8,719
Believers trained to share their faith and/or start a missional community
5
148
New faith communities started with the intention of becoming a church
Our Approach

3 + 1

Three audiences moving toward one metric

1
Lost
Connecting those far from God to Jesus
2
CoJourners
Helping every follower of Jesus normalize sharing the Gospel and making disciples
3
Mobilizers
Partnering with pastors, missional leaders and church-planters to multiply missional communities
+1
Multiplying missional communities
Story · Jacksonville, FL
In 50 years of full-time ministry, this is the first time I've seen five generations of disciple-making in my own discipleship chain.
Ben, veteran missionary · 80 years old
Ben went through Sent 6:7 — our discipleship and church multiplication process — and began applying its simple tools and methods. His disciple Paul is now a church-planting pastor.
Sent 6:7 Multiplication Story from Jacksonville, FL
Watch Paul (Ben's disciple), a church-planting pastor, share his story of multiplication. ↗ Opens on YouTube
From the field

Voices from
the Frontlines

Stories from our staff across the country — real moments of transformation, discipleship, and multiplication.

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In January we started two new discipleship groups. Bruna is from Brazil. She is definitely a "fourth soil" leader who continues to invite others to our faith community. She helped double the size of our group.

Becky · Wisconsin
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We had an amazing time investing in the refreshment, encouragement and training of nearly 20 church planters, their spouses, and their kids in New England! God's Spirit was evident in all of our times together.

Matt · Pennsylvania
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The local FCA staff team and I partnered to create a Victory Beyond the Cup introduction meeting for pastors and church-leaders. Over 50 attended! Also, seven guys in our jail Bible study were baptized last week!

Bryan · Maryland
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Ian, from Williston, North Dakota has seen a prayer movement consisting of mainly oil workers grow up to 300 participants. They meet every Wednesday at 5:30 am and are seeing men surrender their lives to Jesus every week!

John · Minnesota
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During our discipleship meeting, we introduced the practice of 'Spiritual Breathing'. Heidi said: 'I have done confession before, but I never considered inviting Jesus back on the throne of my life moment by moment. It's such a non-condemning gift.'

Zack · Wisconsin
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We have loved doing Becoming a CoJourner training with a new church in Liberty over three weeks. We've never done it this way before, but it was so fruitful and encouraging! Celebrating the wins each week was life-giving.

Angela · Missouri
Church Planting Pipeline

Our Residency

Cru Fellowship for Church Multiplication — our year-long church-planting residency program.

19
Participants graduating this year from the program
CFCM was incredible! The content and connections were amazing and I loved the conversations at our tables at the Life in the City event.
— Angela, CFCM Graduate
CFCM Residency Graduates 2026
What CFCM Develops
→ Church-planting vision & calling
→ Peer cohort & mentorship connections
→ Practical tools for multiplication
→ Life in the City conference experience
2026 Staff Engagement Survey

Staff Feedback

Looking Ahead

Our Focus

The strength is in the parts. Movement and multiplication happens at the local level.

①
Renewed CMO — New Staff Orientation Revamped onboarding to align all new staff with our vision and tools from day one.
②
Ongoing Staff Training Developing Regional Director-led training to equip staff for deeper local fruitfulness.
Organizational Maturation

Where Are We?

Phase 1: Pioneering
Foundation, formation, discovering the landscape, building initial tools.
Phase 2 → 3: Stabilizing to Maturity
Defining culture, establishing initial structures, clarifying jobs. Moving toward local ownership of vision, clarified national roles, strong hiring & care, and contextualized tools.
Phase 3: Maturity & Multiplication
Local ownership of vision, clarified national roles, strong hiring/care, contextualized tools. Reaching maturity requires focus on local fruitfulness.

Church Movements is between Phase 2 and 3. Reaching maturity requires focus on local fruitfulness.