Cru · Church Movements

Annual Report

2025 – 2026

May 2025 – April 2026
Gábor Grész, Director
Cru Church Movements USA

Our Mission

Partnering to make Jesus known, multiply the church.

Our Objectives

168M
Unchurched People to reach with the Gospel
168K
Missional Communities to plant across cities
1.5M
Spiritual Leaders to mobilize and train

The Church Movements Team

Our national missionary workforce is mobilized across the country, serving in cities and local communities to spark spiritual multiplication.

0 Staff Members
0 States Represented
0 Cities Served
80 Active Ministry Cities

2025–26 Key Impact Metrics

Measuring our progress as we equip leaders, share the Gospel, and establish multiplying spiritual communities.

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New believers followed up in the foundations of faith.
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In-person gospel conversations where the Gospel was fully shared.
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Spiritual conversations initiated (in-person + digitally).
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Believers trained to share their faith and/or start a missional community.
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New faith communities started with the intention of becoming local churches.

The 3+1 Strategy

Our strategic roadmap focuses on engaging three primary audiences to drive one multiplying metric (+1).

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Lost Connecting those far from God to Jesus through relationships.
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CoJourners Helping followers of Jesus normalize sharing the Gospel and making disciples.
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Mobilizers Partnering with pastors and leaders to plant missional communities.
+1 Multiplying spiritual communities contextually in every city.

Jacksonville Spotlight

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 applied our Sent 6:7 church multiplication tools. His disciple Paul is now planting multiplying congregations.

Frontline Stories

Real moments of transformation, discipleship, and spiritual multiplication shared by our staff members.

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

The CFCM Residency

The Cru Fellowship for Church Multiplication (CFCM) is our year-long church-planting residency cohort designed to equip leaders to launch self-sustaining, multiplying local churches.

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Participants Graduating this year from the church-planting residency.
What CFCM Develops:
Church-planting vision & calling
Peer cohort support & mentorship connections
Practical, localized tools for replication
Life in the City national conference training

"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

Our Focus

Spiritual multiplication happens at the local level. Our ongoing projects focus on building capacity and support structures for our regional staff:

Renewed CMO / New Staff Orientation Revamped onboarding processes to align new team members with our mission.
Ongoing Staff Training Developing Regional Director-led training structures to equip staff for local fruitfulness.

Where Are We?

Cru Church Movements USA is currently transitioning between Phase 2 and 3, focusing resources on contextual local vision ownership.

Phase 1: Pioneering
Foundation, discovery of local landscapes, and launching initial toolkits.
Current Stage
Phase 2 → 3: Stabilizing to Maturity
Defining culture, building sustainable leadership pipelines, and clarifying national/regional roles.
Phase 3: Maturity & Multiplication
Contextual tools, robust hiring/care, and fully self-replicating local movements.
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