Great Cities Missions โ Organization Profile
Great Cities Missions (GCM) is a mission agency devoted to โSharing Christ with the Latin Worldโ by helping missionary teams plant churches and develop leaders in major urban centers. From its base in Addison, Texas, the ministry focuses on Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking communities across the Latin World, partnering with churches and missionaries to establish congregations that can thrive long-term in their local context.
GCMโs stated mission reaches beyond church planting alone. Alongside training and teaching, the organization describes a commitment to practical compassionโhelping meet basic needs such as clothing, food, and shelter while pointing people to Christ and supporting local believers as they grow in faith. The long-term aim is multiplication: helping new believers and churches become leaders, teachers, and missionaries who can carry the gospel throughout their own communities, cities, and nations.
A distinctive emphasis of Great Cities Missions is the life-cycle care of missionary families. The organization equips missionaries through preparation that includes language readiness, team dynamics, and urban church-planting strategy, and it also provides ongoing support while families live overseas. That care continues through transitions, including guidance and support for re-entry when missionaries return to their home culture.
Great Cities Missions also articulates a clear vision for its church-planting strategy: to see a โmain avenueโ church planted in every major city of the Latin World. In practical terms, GCM comes alongside teams with what they need to establish a strong, healthy church in a cityโs central hub so that the congregation can reach more people and become a stable light for Christ in the region.
With decades of ministry experience, Great Cities Missions reports that more than 100 missionary families are embedded in communities and churches throughout the Latin World, and that, using its recruiting and training model, 250+ congregations are now meeting, teaching, and serving their communities. Individuals who sense a call to missions can explore GCMโs application pathway and missionary forms, while churches and supporters can engage through prayer, giving, and following ministry updates and stories from the field.
Key Links
- Website: https://greatcities.org/
- About: https://greatcities.org/about/
- Mission & Vision: https://greatcities.org/mission-vision/
- Stories & News: https://greatcities.org/stories/
- Are You Called? (Apply): https://greatcities.org/are-you-called/
- Donate: https://greatcities.kindful.com/
- Staff: https://greatcities.org/staff/
- Board of Trustees: https://greatcities.org/board-of-trustees/
- Shoulder to Shoulder Endowment: https://greatcities.org/sao-paulo-endowment/
Contact Information
- Email: in**@*********es.org
- Phone: 214-466-6200
- Mailing address: 3939 Belt Line Road, Suite 705, Addison, TX 75001
Socials
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greatcities/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatcitiesmissions/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@greatcitiesmissions5601
Leadership
- Kelley Grant โ Executive Director
- Blake Crowell โ Dir of Development
- Cara Blackmer โ Director of Missionary Care
- Becky Holton โ Asst Director of Missionary Care
- Ila Dabbs โ Dir of Connections Renewals
- Scott Reynolds โ Dir of Team Training
- Jeremy Davis โ Dir of Latin Teams
- Chris Fry โ Dir of Latin Teams
- Barton Kizer โ Dir of Special Projects
- Christy LeStarge โ Asst to Church Planting Directors
- Debbie Mathis โ Asst to Financial Administrator
- Enoch Rinks โ Dev Tennessee/East Region
- Stephanie Scott โ Asst to Development Director
- Luis Vielman โ Country Coordinator โ Colombia / Coordinador Nacional โ Colombia
