February 2016
62 people gathered for the first launch team meeting held in Winston-Salem
April 2016
The Summit Church RDU commissions and sends a team of 30 people to plant Two Cities Church
June 2016
Launched 8 community groups with 95 people in attendance
September 2016
Two Cities Church is publically launched with two services at Goler Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
October 2016
7 people make a profession of faith through baptism
December 2016
203 people meet in Community Groups, 159 people regularly serve at weekend worship gatherings, and 345 average Sunday gathering attendance
July 2017
First short-term missions team sent to Dominican Republic
September 2017
Largest Weekender ever: People moved from Connected to Committed
September 2017
230th person commits to serve at weekend gatherings
September 2017
514 in attendance, highest since church launched
September 2017
Baptized 30th person
October 2017
Over 300 people in Community Groups
November 2017
The Deep and Wide initiative launched to expand all ministries in all directions at Two Cities
ATTENDANCE
Two Cities Church has experienced a 38% increase in attendance over the last 10 months. The average Fall 2017 attendance at Two Cities is 467 people.
COMMUNITY GROUPS
We currently have 300 people actively involved in 21 Community Groups each week.
DNA GROUPS
There are 150 people meeting throughout the Winston-Salem area in personal and intentional DNA Groups.
BAPTISM
Since launching as a church in September 2016, we’ve had 30 people go public with their faith through baptism.
MISSIONS TEAMS
We’ve sent two teams of a total of 11 people on foreign missions trips.
Before coming to Two Cities, I knew what it meant to believe in Jesus Christ and had a substantial understanding of evidence that supports that claim, but I had no experience in what it means to have a relationship with Christ. I had been walking apathetically in my faith, turning to whatever seemed most true and convenient in the moment. On Easter Day of 2017, by no matter of coincidence, I ended up at the 5:30 service of Two Cities Church, where Kyle spoke about Jesus Christ obeying God in my place. He summarized the message of Easter explaining, “When you see the Cross, remember how much God loves you, and remember how much God hates sin.”
I was undergoing a complete paradigm shift throughout the service, but one experience sticks out to me that truly changed my faith. At the end of the service, David asked those of us who felt we had received an explanation of the sacrifice and victory of Jesus, but wanted a relationship with Christ, to raise their hands. In a moment of anxiety, but complete certainty, I raised my hand. From that moment on, I have never looked back in my walk with God. Two Cities allowed me to receive Christ’s sacrifice with its rightful meaning, and has welcomed me with open arms, giving me constant encouragement and community in taking my first steps as a true Christian.
– Elizabeth
WHAT IS
The Deep & Wide Initiative is a comprehensive vision and plan for discipleship, mission, and expansion in 2018. While gaining a permanent gathering space is central to this initiative, it’s not the end goal. At Two Cities, people are the mission, and it is through this facility that we will be able to establish ourselves fully in our community. We will be able to utilize all gathering spaces on campus to fully deepen and develop age-and-stage ministries, significantly increase seating capacities to reach the lost, and better serve the city and surrounding communities through mission.
CAPACITY: 400
$250K UPFIT
Expansion into Sunday morning worship times.
450 chairs and signage
Sound, light, video, staging, technology infrastructure
Kids & Student gathering spaces, artwork and equipment
Property deposits and admin costs
TCC KIDS
Brand new TCC Kids gathering space with secure lobby and check-in area
Age appropriate worship and classroom spaces
This will let us double our current kids space
OFFICE SPACE
Centralized office space for TCC Staff
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM
Dedicated space for Weekenders
Teaching and Ministry Opportunities
Student and other Age-and-Stage gathering space
PARKING/OUTSIDE
Community Development initiatives and gatherings
870 Northwest Boulevard
Winston Salem, NC 27101
This property is centrally located in Winston-Salem at the crossroads of 3 major communities: West End, Buena Vista, and Boston Thurmond with easy highway and major roadway access to all Winston-Salem communities.
2018
discipleship and missional objectives
– DEEP –
Develop all age-and-stage ministries through one-on-one and corporate discipleship
Create better systems and on-ramps for DNA groups to multiply exponentially in 2018
Leadership development and theological training through Equip gatherings
Create more opportunities for students to engage in discipleship relationships with adults and other students
Multiply apprentices, leaders, and Community Groups to better disciple the church
Continue to develop and create discipleship relationships with collegiate campuses in the greater Winston area
– WIDE –
Own the geography of where our church gathers (800 Mill Apartments, Boston Thurmond, West End, Buena Vista)
Build strategic partnership with Mumbai as an IMB Send City
Continue to build strategic relationships for Mission in the Dominican Republic
Continue to support Church Planting:
- Grace Alive (Orlando, FL)
- Center Church (Charlottesville, VA)
- Rise Church (Waughtown, NC)
THE CENTER: A gospel-centered life
of our lives and putting God on the throne. When the gospel is the center of one’s life, it rede nes everything about that person, including the trajectory of his or her career, family, and future.
THE SPOKES: Fruit of the gospel
A WARNING: Keeping the main thing the main thing
THE GOAL: Gospel-motivatedtransformation
A wheel works best when it’s full and balanced. Growing in just two or three spokes does not improve a wheel; it actually makes it worse. In the same way, gospel-centered growth in all of these areas puts God’s glory on display in the life of a disciple of Jesus Christ.
The discipleship wheel
HOW DO WE GO
together In 2018?
Our primary goal with this initiative is 100% participation of the people who attend Two Cities to go Deep & Wide before God and have a life-changing encounter with him as it relates to their generosity.
Our secondary goal is $250,000 in generous one-time gifts, above and beyond regular tithes and offerings to do what we believe God is calling us to do to go Deep & Wide.
COMMITMENT
to raise
250K
by the end of 2017
HOW DO I GIVE?
GIVE BY MAIL
Checks can be made out to Two Cities with “Deep & Wide” in the memo. Mail to:
Two Cities Church
P.O. Box 24941
Winston-Salem, NC 27114
GIVE BY stock
Two Cities has the ability to receive stock gifts. For some, this is the most effective way to use their resources.
*Make sure to designate your gift to “Deep & Wide”
GIVE online
We make it easy and convenient for you to give online through our website. To give online, click here.
*Make sure to designate your gift to “Deep & Wide”
GIVE on sunday
During our weekly services, you can give by placing your gift in the offering bucket.
*Make sure to designate your gift to “Deep & Wide”
The generosity ladder
Legacy giver
Sacrificial giver
Intentional Giver
Consistent Giver
Initial Giver
IN WINSTON,
FOR THE WORLD
February 2016
62 people gathered for the first launch team meeting held in Winston-Salem
April 2016
The Summit Church RDU commissions and sends a team of 30 people to plant Two Cities Church
June 2016
Launched 8 community groups with 95 people in attendance
September 2016
Two Cities Church is publically launched with two services at Goler Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
October 2016
7 people make a profession of faith through baptism
December 2016
203 people meet in Community Groups, 159 people regularly serve at weekend worship gatherings, and 345 average Sunday gathering attendance
July 2017
First short-term missions team sent to Dominican Republic
September 2017
Largest Weekender ever: People moved from Connected to Committed
September 2017
230th person commits to serve at weekend gatherings
September 2017
514 in attendance, highest since church launched
September 2017
Baptized 30th person
October 2017
Over 300 people in Community Groups
November 2017
The Deep and Wide initiative launched to expand all ministries in all directions at Two Cities
ATTENDANCE
Two Cities Church has experienced a 38% increase in attendance over the last 10 months. The average Fall 2017 attendance at Two Cities is 467 people.
COMMUNITY GROUPS
We currently have 300 people actively involved in 21 Community Groups each week.
DNA GROUPS
There are 150 people meeting throughout the Winston-Salem area in personal and intentional DNA Groups.
BAPTISM
Since launching as a church in September 2016, we’ve had 30 people go public with their faith through baptism.
MISSIONS TEAMS
We’ve sent two teams of a total of 11 people on foreign missions trips.
Before coming to Two Cities, I knew what it meant to believe in Jesus Christ and had a substantial understanding of evidence that supports that claim, but I had no experience in what it means to have a relationship with Christ. I had been walking apathetically in my faith, turning to whatever seemed most true and convenient in the moment. On Easter Day of 2017, by no matter of coincidence, I ended up at the 5:30 service of Two Cities Church, where Kyle spoke about Jesus Christ obeying God in my place. He summarized the message of Easter explaining, “When you see the Cross, remember how much God loves you, and remember how much God hates sin.”
I was undergoing a complete paradigm shift throughout the service, but one experience sticks out to me that truly changed my faith. At the end of the service, David asked those of us who felt we had received an explanation of the sacrifice and victory of Jesus, but wanted a relationship with Christ, to raise their hands. In a moment of anxiety, but complete certainty, I raised my hand. From that moment on, I have never looked back in my walk with God. Two Cities allowed me to receive Christ’s sacrifice with its rightful meaning, and has welcomed me with open arms, giving me constant encouragement and community in taking my first steps as a true Christian.
– Elizabeth
WHAT IS
The Deep & Wide Initiative is a comprehensive vision and plan for discipleship, mission, and expansion in 2018. While gaining a permanent gathering space is central to this initiative, it’s not the end goal. At Two Cities, people are the mission, and it is through this facility that we will be able to establish ourselves fully in our community. We will be able to utilize all gathering spaces on campus to fully deepen and develop age-and-stage ministries, significantly increase seating capacities to reach the lost, and better serve the city and surrounding communities through mission.
CAPACITY: 400
$250K UPFIT
Expansion into Sunday morning worship times.
450 chairs and signage
Sound, light, video, staging, technology infrastructure
Kids & Student gathering spaces, artwork and equipment
Property deposits and admin costs
TCC KIDS
Brand new TCC Kids gathering space with secure lobby and check-in area
Age appropriate worship and classroom spaces
This will let us double our current kids space
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM
Dedicated space for Weekenders
Teaching and Ministry Opportunities
Student and other Age-and-Stage gathering space
OFFICE SPACE
Centralized office space for TCC Staff
PARKING/OUTSIDE
Community Development initiatives and gatherings
870 Northwest Boulevard
Winston Salem, NC 27101
This property is centrally located in Winston-Salem at the crossroads of 3 major communities: West End, Buena Vista, and Boston Thurmond with easy highway and major roadway access to all Winston-Salem communities.
2018
discipleship and missional objectives
– DEEP –
Develop all age-and-stage ministries through one-on-one and corporate discipleship
Create better systems and on-ramps for DNA groups to multiply exponentially in 2018
Leadership development and theological training through Equip gatherings
Create more opportunities for students to engage in discipleship relationships with adults and other students
Multiply apprentices, leaders, and Community Groups to better disciple the church
Continue to develop and create discipleship relationships with collegiate campuses in the greater Winston area
– WIDE –
Own the geography of where our church gathers (800 Mill Apartments, Boston Thurmond, West End, Buena Vista)
Build strategic partnership with Mumbai as an IMB Send City
Continue to build strategic relationships for Mission in the Dominican Republic
Continue to support Church Planting:
- Grace Alive (Orlando, FL)
- Center Church (Charlottesville, VA)
- Rise Church (Waughtown, NC)
The discipleship wheel
THE CENTER: A gospel-centered life
of our lives and putting God on the throne. When the gospel is the center of one’s life, it rede nes everything about that person, including the trajectory of his or her career, family, and future.
THE SPOKES: Fruit of the gospel
A WARNING: Keeping the main thing the main thing
THE GOAL: Gospel-motivatedtransformation
A wheel works best when it’s full and balanced. Growing in just two or three spokes does not improve a wheel; it actually makes it worse. In the same way, gospel-centered growth in all of these areas puts God’s glory on display in the life of a disciple of Jesus Christ.
HOW DO WE GO
together In 2018?
Our primary goal with this initiative is 100% participation of the people who attend Two Cities to go Deep & Wide before God and have a life-changing encounter with him as it relates to their generosity.
Our secondary goal is $250,000 in generous one-time gifts, above and beyond regular tithes and offerings to do what we believe God is calling us to do to go Deep & Wide.
COMMITMENT
to raise
250K
by the end of 2017
HOW DO I GIVE?
GIVE BY MAIL
Checks can be made out to Two Cities with “Deep & Wide” in the memo. Mail to:
Two Cities Church
P.O. Box 24941
Winston-Salem, NC 27114
GIVE BY stock
Two Cities has the ability to receive stock gifts. For some, this is the most effective way to use their resources.
*Make sure to designate your gift to “Deep & Wide”
GIVE on sunday
During our weekly services, you can give by placing your gift in the offering bucket.
*Make sure to designate your gift to “Deep & Wide”
GIVE online
We make it easy and convenient for you to give online through our website. To give online, click here.
*Make sure to designate your gift to “Deep & Wide”
The generosity ladder
Legacy giver
Sacrificial giver
Intentional Giver
Consistent Giver
Initial Giver
