RESOURCES

Whether you’re leading, volunteering, or exploring how to make a difference in your community, these resources are here to support you. From trainings and guides to practical tools and insights, everything below is designed to help you build meaningful relationships, strengthen communities, and serve with confidence and purpose. We’re here to support you in your journey. Have questions? Reach out and we’ll be in touch!

Below are links to topics that may interest you and ignite an opportunity for you to become involved in “Building a Community Where People Love to Live.”

Apartment Community Development Teams

– CityLife partners with churches, individuals, nonprofit organizations, business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are willing to live out the Good Samaritan story in apartment communities. We accomplish this through a four-step pathway:

  1. Inspire Vision & Mission – Help others to see apartments as an opportunity to transform properties near where they live, work, and worship into thriving communities. 
  2. Ignite a Movement – Connect and mobilize volunteers and leaders who will serve with compassion and intentional love.
  3. Equip Leaders – Train, resource, and empower community development teams to create and execute programs and events based on needs and leaders’ passions and skills. 
  4. Sustain Momentum– Build long-term systems of care so communities don’t just survive, they thrive. 

“When compassionate volunteers and leaders step into the story, apartments become communities, residents become neighbors, and strangers become family.”
-Jennings

How We Connect with Apartment Communities

1. As God informs us individually or through ministry partners we receive “Referrals” for apartments to begin praying for.
2. After prayer we look for God to open the door to engage with the apartment’s management and initialize a relationship.
3. As the relationship with the manager’s develop we look for opportunities not only to continue to prayer but also to join in hosting a community activity or event.
4. Once we have proven ourselves faith in this relationship and in our ability to support the manager, we ask them for a cooperative agreement that allows us to commit a ACD Team to their property.
5. Finally, our mission is in fully underway when we have a two year team working consistently support the hosting of events and activities, to develop relationships among the community, and to form affinity groups and Bible studies that all lead to building a community where people love to live.