Interested in knowing your city better? Since 1996 over 22,000 people from 39 different states have experienced a Discover Your City Tour. Come and join us on one of our nine different Discover Your City Tours and see for yourself how our city has changed and how the Christian Church is responding. Each of the nine different tours presents a different area of the city. You will get a “hands-on” feel for what really is going on in the city. Focused prayer is a part of every tour as well. Tours are an excellent way to both educate and stimulate people to pray and serve as new “Glocal” (Global + Local = Glocal) missionaries. Past Tours have resulted in new churches planted, more focused prayer for different people groups, unreached people groups reached, partnerships formed between different churches/ministries, and new ministries begun.
- Understand the economics that affect our city
- Understand the different spiritual influences (both good and bad) that affect our city
- Understand the ethnic/immigrant perspectives in our city
Tours Are Perfect For Many Groups
• Church groups • Pastors/staff groups • Prayer groups • Jr. high and Sr. high youth groups
• Missions festivals • Seniors’ groups • Church planters • Denominational leaders
• College/seminary students • Short-term missions groups (from 39 states)
• Parachurch ministry groups • Bible Study groups • Small groups • Christian schools
- The most diverse neighborhood in the U.S. with 100+ languages
- Explore “Eat Street” with over 75 ethnic restaurants in a six block area
- Largest concentration of Somalis in the U.S.
- Former poorest neighborhood in Minnesota
- “White fright, White flight” and “Return flight”
- Somali malls, Asian malls, and Hispanic malls
- Midtown Global Market
- Hindu temples
- Muslim mosques
- Witch covens
- Mormons
- Homosexual churches
- Cult and New Age groups
- Parachurch ministries
- White, Black, Hispanic, African, Asian, Native American, ethnic, and multi-ethnic churches
- Explore the “Eat Street” of St. Paul with 60 ethnic restaurants
- Largest concentration of Hmong people in the U.S.
- Hmong and Asian malls
- Historic Rondo Neighborhood-First Black neighborhood in Minnesota
- Oldest Black churches in Minnesota
- Asian, African, White, and multi-ethnic churches
- Cult and New Age groups
- Cult and New Age groups
- Witches
- Mormons
- Muslim mosques
- Buddhist Temples
- Ethnic diversity including largest concentrations of Somali and Oromo people in the U.S.
- Ethnic, Asian, White, and multi-ethnic churches
- Parachurch ministries
- Largest concentration of Hmong people in the U.S.
- Cult and New Age groups
- Ethnic diversity
- Asian, White, and multi-ethnic churches
- Cult and New Age groups
- Black, Asian, White, and multi-ethnic churches
- Ethnic diversity
- Witches
- Muslim mosques
- Buddhist temples
- Hindu temples
- Cult and New Age groups
- Ethnic diversity
- Asian, Hispanic, White, multi-ethnic churches
- Parachurch ministries
- “Return Flight”
- Ethnoburbs
- Muslim mosques
- Hindu temples
- Cult and New Age groups
- “White fright, White flight” and “Return Flight”
- Black, White, Asian, multi-ethnic churches
- Parachurch ministries
- Ethnic diversity
- Buddhist Temples
Learn how to reach out to ethnic immigrant people by experiencing their food and culture. Learn about “Stomach Evangelism” and its key in reaching the Glocal World of the New Twin Cities. Meet and greet your ethnic immigrant neighbors as you shop and eat in this immersion experience. This Special Tour visits ethnic markets, stores, and restaurants. Spend your own money as you eat and shop as you go. Coolers are provided to keep fresh and store your food purchases.
The following places will be visited on the Tour:
- A Somali mall
- A Hispanic mall
- An Indian market
- A Middle Eastern market
- An Asian market
- A Scandinavian Market
- Midtown Global Market
- Eat on “Eat Street” with over 75 ethnic restaurants in a six block area
Tour lasts from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Limited seating, must pre-register. Check our website at www.cityvisiontc.org
We have found that many Christians after reading the newspaper and seeing the news are very curious to understand and visit a Muslim mosque/community center, Hindu temple, and Buddhist temple but are afraid to go there alone or don’t know how to arrange it. City Vision has taken care of all the details for you.
Tour with a group of Christians to visit:
- Hindu temple (the largest Hindu temple in North America)
- Muslim mosque/community center
- Tibetan Buddhist temple
We will also eat a buffet lunch at the Muslim owned Holy Land Deli and Market.
Have you noticed the changes in your area over the last few years? Some suburbs have now transformed into new ethnoburbs. Learn what this means for your church or ministry. Learn how to reach out to this new glocal mission field in your own backyard. Understand the changing economics, the different spiritual influences, and the ethnic/immigrant perspectives (good and bad) affecting your ethnoburb.
The following places will be visited on the Ethnoburb Tour:
- Hispanic, Russian, Asian, Somali, Asian Indian, Liberian stores and restaurants
- Ethnic/immigrant churches and other types of churches
- Muslim mosques, Hindu and Buddhist temples
- Cult and occult groups
Testimonials
“I learned more in one day from your tour then I have in my four years of college.” — Tour Participant
“This tour, I believe was God’s way of saying to me, this is what I’ve called you to do.” — Tour Participant