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Dear Pastor, We thank God for you! Your work for him is amazing. Even though we are nearing the end of 2023 at the time of releasing this report, it covers January 2022 to December 2022. Last year was challenging, but happily we see momentum regaining all across our movement. There were unexpected challenges in many areas but our churches have been effective in regathering and rebuilding teams at all levels. We’re so proud of you for pressing forward, filled with faith, and power by the Holy Spirit. You and I know that Jesus has promised to build His church and the gates of hell stand no chance against it. He will continue to build His Church, with you and I, as we keep walking with Him. What a privilege! We are so happy we got to see so many of you in person in 2022 and this year. Thankfully in 2022 we were able to attend the Regional Gatherings in Americas, Australia, South Asia, and South East Asia. These have been really special moments. It’s with great joy that we furnish you with our C3 Church Global Annual Report for 2022, where we can celebrate what God has done with all of us working together. Thank you again for your tireless commitment to the Lord and His great work in the Earth today. Praying for you and believing for His strength, revival, provision, and overflowing cup to be yours.
Yours in Christ,
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591 CHURCHES
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551 CHURCHES 12 Regions
CANADA - 16
EUROPE -
AMERICAS - 26
EAST & WEST AFR
SOUTHER
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C3 CHURCH GLOBAL IS AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF CHURCHES
REACH - 80
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EAST ASIA - 01 SOUTH EAST ASIA - 48
SOUTH ASIA - 25
RICA - 73 INDONESIA - 26
AUSTRALIA - 95
PACIFIC - 64
RN AFRICA - 47
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REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT New Region: Indonesia For almost 20 years, Indonesia was a part of the C3 South East Asia Region. There were 5 churches in Indonesia in 2008, which then grew to 11 churches in 2012, and then 25 churches in 2022. At the end of 2022, we became our own region. When the number of churches grew to 25, the dynamic of leading and interacting with churches on the Regional Office level required new oversight structures. Several seasoned pastors started functioning as Overseers for Sumatra, Jakarta, Central Java, Bali, and Eastern Indonesia. There are many people who have helped make this happen: Jake Betlem as Regional Director of C3 South East Asia, Mark & Bernie Kelsey, Steve White, Eric Harrison, Keith Edwards, and Greg French, all committed people who have been coming to Indonesia to train local pastors and church planters for many years. As a new region, Indonesia offers challenges and opportunities for growth. There are still many potential new leaders
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to raise, new churches to plant, and souls to win for the Kingdom. Our goal is to have planted 100 churches 5 years from now. We are aiming to do this by preparing leadership pipelines in 3 areas: leading a strong Regional Team; empowering the saints to serve and flourish in their gifts; and including new leaders in strategic and leadership decision making. Our big questions in raising leaders: who do we see, and how do we invest in them to help them be authentic, powerful and Christ centered. In 2022 we laid a strong foundation for this. In July we held a Pastors Retreat in Bali, with speakers John Pearce, Steve Burgess
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and Jake Betlem, where 50 pastors were refreshed and recharged. In November we held Xpress with Mark & Bernie Kelsey and Jake Betlem. 30 church planters trained for 5 days, experiencing holistic transformation in spirit, soul and body. These church planters are on fire! Following Xpress, we held the South East Asia Regional Gathering in Jakarta. The power of God manifested and many people were touched and the teaching of the Word was exceptional. It was here that we officially launched as a region and Sannita and I had the honour of being ordained as the new Regional Directors of Indonesia. We are very excited for the future!
Much love, Joshua & Sannita Winarta
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THE GLOBAL TEAM 2022 We made some changes to our Global Team, which consists of the Global Executive, the Global Board, and our Regional Directors.
Rock & Deborah Mutegheki, Senior Pastors of C3 Alive in Uganda, joined the Executive in April of 2022.
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Julia Sabatini, based in the United States and a long term member of C3 LA, joined our Board in December of 2022.
Joshua & Sannita Winarta, Senior Pastors of C3 Victory in Indonesia, officially became Regional Directors in October of 2022 at the C3 South East Asia Regional Gathering. 9
THE GLOBAL OFFICE Management Team In 2022, we worked really hard on creating a lean and (not so) mean Global Office team, that can best serve our C3 family through a variety of strengths and skill sets. Three key team members started new management positions in 2022, to help our Global Office function smoothly across the Globe.
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Ben Giles
Jo Mikac
Phil Hubbard
We welcomed Ben Giles on board as our General Manager. He stepped into a big role, which includes budget, policies and procedures, and managing the media. Ben and his wife Bentley are long term members of C3 Ryde, led by Richard & Cathie Green.
We promoted Jo Mikac to Operations Manager. She oversees the seamless functioning of the Global Office. Jo also volunteers at C3 SYD, of which she is a long term member.
Phil Hubbard joined us from London as our new Communications Manager, while still leading C3 London with his wife Lucy.
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G LO B A L
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Ever since we hosted our first Global Day of Prayer in 2020, it’s been a moment in our calendar to gather as one global family online, united in prayer. In 2022, we held two Days of Prayer - one in March and one in December. On both days our 7am and 7pm prayer meetings were powerful moments led by Ps Phil & Chris. This year we were specifically praying for: • a great return of people to the House of God • new people coming to know God • C3 people under persecution • new buildings for C3 churches • new C3 church plants • the conflict in the Ukraine and Russia Over 700 of us gathered and we are so grateful for every one of you! Pastors and leaders, familiar faces, and new friends. We prayed in many different languages (earthly and spiritual) as we sought God together. We can’t wait to do it all again soon. 13
In 2022, Xpress made a full return after the travel blockages of COVID in 2020 and 2021. Across four cities in four regions (Europe, Pacific, Australia and South East Asia), emerging and established leaders gathered for immersive church planting training.
AUGUST: EUROPE 40 young leaders from C3 Europe gathered for training (of the physical, mental, and spiritual kind) with Mark & Bernie Kelsey, and Steve & Lizby Warren. Photo: top left.
AUGUST: PACIFIC In the first ever Xpress for our C3 Pacific region, leaders from across New Zealand and Fiji gathered for 2 days of training together in beautiful New Zealand. Photo: bottom left.
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541 CHURCHES 12 REGIONS 1 GLOBAL FAMILY
OCTOBER: AUSTRALIA Then in October, it was Australia’s turn. A full 5 days of training with Mark & Bernie, the legendary “Sandhill Warrior,” and guest speakers on a range of topics. Photo: centre.
NOVEMBER: SOUTH EAST ASIA And finally, to cap off Xpress for 2022, 30 emerging leaders and church planters from our South East Asia region gathered in Jakarta. Photo: top right.
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MESSAGES TO THE MOVEMENT In 2022, we produced four Messages to the Movement. Ps Phil launched us into the new year with a message on Resurrection, and in March a word from Isaiah 61 on The Spirit of the Lord. Moving into the middle of the year, Ps Chris spoke to us on ‘Wait and See,’ inspiring us all to dream again, and Ps Phil finished the year with a message on rebuilding. Coming out of Covid, these messages brought words of encouragement and a refocusing on key values and on what God was calling us into as a movement. The key focus for the Message to the Movement moving toward the end of 2022 was to increase the ability for us to offer these messages in several languages other than English, in order to make them available to our expanding global family.
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We uploaded 20 new videos in 2022! Our top 3 videos watched in 2022 (in order of total views) were: 1. Church Planting Masterclass Roundtable 2. Leadership with Phil Pringle – Lead With Boldness 3. Interviewing Leaders – Steve Murrell As you can tell from the above, C3TV focused primarily on Leadership content. The most watched video of 2022 was, by far, the Church Planting Masterclass Roundtable (from 2019!) with Georgie Kelsey, Josh Kelsey, Mary Simpson, Wayne Simpson, Jess Picken, and Sam Picken.
Podcast in order to increase the impact of content being produced and lean into a growing focus on engagement in video content and the growth of Youtube as a search engine. We started to see some really positve results from this, from increased engagement, to more subscribers, to great feedback from individuals across our C3 family.
The vast majority of our viewers were based in the USA and found content via a simple YouTube search. Toward the end of 2022, a strategic decision was made to begin to integrate content between C3TV and the C3 Church Global
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The C3 Church Global Podcast focused on a fortnightly pattern of devotionals and conversations. Most episodes saw a consistent listener base with a few standout episodes, and it seems that listeners returned to choice devotionals from Ps Phil. The podcast was primarily listened to by an Australian audience. Our top 3 episodes (based on overall streams) were: 1. Conversation: Financial Stewardship with Ps Phil Pringle & John Pearce 2. Devotional: James 3. Devotional: Hebrews 11 Our top 3 episodes (based on unique listeners) were: 1. Conversation: Journey to Leadership (with Joe Pringle & Josh Kelsey) 2. Devotional: Romans 8 3. Conversation: The Theology Wrestle (with Katie Haldane)
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REGIONAL GATHERING DESIGN TEMPLATE Our Regional Gathering Design Template for 2022 was used widely across our regions. The heart behind this template is to make it as easy as possible for Regional teams to produce a Regional Gathering. As a new region in 2022, Indonesia did a fantastic job to work with the Regional Gathering template. The C3 Indonesia team produced a wonderful gathering and had a fantastic uptake and collaboration across social media, producing high quality photo and video content, posting daily content, and a wonderful post-Gathering highlights package.
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2022
IN REVIEW
551
C3 churches
57
countries
6
churches joined or launched
12
Regional Gatherings
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