About
Our Story
Vision360 was founded in 2004 as a collaborative effort between business leaders and ministry leaders to plant churches. It is an emerging movement of leaders in business, education, governance, agriculture, civil society, and the arts that centers around the question of what it looks like for Christ-followers to see transformation happen in their city. It always leads to the mobilization of Christ-followers in serving their city and the multiplication of churches. In seven short years, Vision360 has planted over 269 churches in the United States and helped facilitate other movements around the world in the planting of thousands of churches. Vision360 currently has catalysts in ten U.S. cities and in 22 global cities with a goal to expand into 500 global cities by 2025.
In 2011, Bob Roberts began serving as the Chief Visionary Officer for Vision360. Bob started Northwood Church in Keller, Texas 25 years ago which lead to the planting of over 150 churches throughout the United States. In addition, Bob has worked with global leaders in government, business, and the church. He is the author of several books on making disciples, engaging the world, and planting churches. He speaks globally both at Christian and secular events.
In our home city of Orlando, Florida, the first Vision360 city, we have helped serve and empower our communities to start 24 churches. This is possible because we don’t start new churches. Instead we help serve and empower city movements that start multitudes of churches.
These movements are not only multiplying churches but are also engaging locally and connecting globally. This is what we call thinking “glocal.” The fastest growing churches in the world are not in North America. It is vital that we work together to learn and grow from global leaders while committing to change the very cities we live in.
Vision: Collaborate to accelerate the global movement of Jesus
Mission: To release followers of Jesus into all domains of society to make disciples and multiply communities of faith
Five Core Values:
1. Kingdom Minded
Vision360 brings churches, networks and denominations together through a city-reaching strategy that enables more churches to start while providing greater diversity and impact within the city. We create mutually owned and integrated Strategic Ministry Plans that utilize the collective strengths, talents and passions of Kingdom minded business and ministry leaders.
2. Disciple Driven
The kingdom of God expands, not by institutions, programs, or new and improved churches, but by something much simpler and organic: the activity of committed disciples. If we want a different church, we need to change the way we make disciples.
3. City Engaged
Vision360 works with a city’s business and ministry leaders to develop a strategy for saturation church planting that will result in transformation throughout the city. New churches must impact the communities, not just their attendees.
4. Globally Connected
We provide connection and support by encouraging church planters to learn from each other and utilize best practices for initiating and serving church planting movements around the world and the demographics of its community.
5. Church Multiplication
We are more committed to seeing the kingdom extended than we are about individual church growth. Rather than being the biggest church in the area, our desire is to church the area. Healthy churches strive for multiplication on every level.
1. Global, Collaborative Network
Vision360 acts as a collaborative hub, serving and
connecting movement leaders such as emerging
leaders, denominations, church planting churches,
organizations and networks toward making a
kingdom impact by:
Initiating and Expanding new City Movements
The Vision360 team collaborates with local business and ministry leaders to identify influential cities and form a leadership team for each new city movement. The leadership team then utilizes the resources and tools developed to serve and empower a local autonomous movement to organize itself to be part of the global movement.
Initiating New Church Plants within a City Movement
Vision360 works with local teams to initiate successful church plants within their cities. Actions include recruiting and assessing qualified church planters, selecting and assessing locations for new churches, and developing a customized launch plan that reflects the unique gifting of the planter, the character of the new church, and the demographics of its community.
Engaging Business Leaders
Vision360 is dependent on the experience and influence of local business leaders to raise the necessary funds to initiate several church plants that will build momentum and credibility within the metropolitan area.
Driving Collaboration
We create mutually owned and integrated Strategic Ministry Plans that utilize the collective strengths, talents, and passions of Kingdom-minded business and ministry leaders.
2. Polycentric
Being polycentric means to have more than one center. This is at the core of what we believe. By combining the gifts and talents of leaders in ministry, the community and the business world in cities around the globe, there is more than one hub. Decentralization of the church means that it comes down to every person in every domain of society connecting with other domains and people globally. God’s kingdom expands to every person. The kingdom is what ties it all together.
3. Domain Leader Engagement
Domains are the power structure of your city designed by God to exert massive influence and provide direction. If you relate to them and live within them, they become supporters in your city. Our churches are filled with people that represent various domains. Whether the domain is agriculture, arts, education, medicine or technology, the mission is the same—to bring light into a dark world.
Staff
Catalysts
Our City Catalysts serve and empower a collaborative church planting community in their cities through networking and connecting churches, church planters, ministry and business leaders.
Orlando Staff
Thank You Give Now
Thank you for supporting Vision360. Your gift will help transform cities and change the world.
Vision360 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organizaton whose mission is to serve and empower a collaborative church planting community in 500 global cities by 2025. All charitable gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law. You will receive a receipt via mail and email once your donation has been processed. Gifts of $250 or more as required by law will receive a formal acknowledgment letter addressed to the donor. Any personal information you entrust to Vision360, such as name, address, and email, will never be shared with a third party, unless we have your written permission.
Types of Gifts Accepted
Gifts may be made to Vision360 in the form of cash, online credit card transactions, personal checks and non-cash transfers such as marketable securities, real estate or personal property. For non-cash gifts or charitable estate and gift planning information tailored more specifically to your interests and needs, email Paige Greninger: Paige.Greninger@vision360.org or call 407-694-9509.
If you wish to make a gift by personal check, please make it payable to Vision360 and mail it to:
Vision360
Office of Philanthropy
11002 Lake Hart Drive, Mail Code 100
Orlando, Florida 32832
The Impact of Giving
Your gift immediately helps to transform cities around the globe through the empowering and building of the church! Gifts of any amount will be directly invested into this effort that will touch thousands of lives, leaders, churches, and communities. Thank you for your prayerful generosity and long-term, charitable partnership with Vision360. We are grateful for the trust your gift demonstrates and for your commitment to the Lord, His Word, and the transforming power of Christianity.
Where does your gift go?
Your gift of any size helps in a number of ways. More specific, donor-directed impact can occur across our five key investment strategies:
Global Advancement where dollars are targeted for emerging developmental priorities set forth by the President, Global Board & Advisory Council
Global Collaboration Center to help complete our Global Headquarters basecamp in Orlando and named after Bill and Vonette Bright
Training Initiatives for our online and onsite assessment, coaching, networking and training events & resources
U.S. National Church Planting for new churches being fostered and grown in 50 of the largest U.S. cities
U.S. City Movements to transform lives one by one, in a community network of business, civic and ministry catalysts & leaders
“Walking in fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit, the church multiplied.” Acts 9:31 represents our hearts and focus as we lead, build, and serve this global effort. Thank you for your gracious support and prayers for VISION360.