City First LA Round 2 — a strategic intensive for pastors and leadership teams, Saturday, November 7, 2026 in Gardena, California. Doors open at 9:00 AM.
Round 2 · Back by Demand
Your next 100 members live within 3 miles of your building.They’re not coming on their own.
Most churches don’t have an outreach problem. They have a presence problem. Your neighborhood drives past your building every week — and still couldn’t tell you what your church does.
On Saturday, November 7, pastors and their teams spend one focused morning on the neighborhood God already assigned them. Not another conference. Not another evangelism push. You’ll leave with your three miles on paper and your first move committed — in your own handwriting, not as homework.
Same seat price as Round 1 — and this time your team comes for $79 each. A team of four pays under $84 a head.
Round 1 · August 25 · Los Angeles
It Worked.
40+
pastors & leaders in the room
38
paid seats — on a Tuesday
3
pastors on camera afterward — below
Pastors stayed late, kept talking, and didn’t want to leave. Round 2 moves to a Saturday so this time your whole team can be there.
From the Room
What Pastors Said
Real voices from Round 1 — in their own words.
Douglas Nelson
True LA · South LA
Nicole Stelly
The A.R.M.E.D. Church · Inglewood
Paris Cunningham
Metro LA Church of Christ · Gardena
New for Round 2
Bring Your Team.
We moved to a Saturday on purpose — so your bivocational leaders and working team members can be in the room too, not just the senior pastor. The people who carry the plan should be the people who build it.
First seat $97. Every additional seat from your church, $79. That’s the same price one pastor paid at Round 1 — except this time four of you can be in the room for $334, under $84 a head.
You don’t need another event. You need a plan.
Most churches have tried the outreach push, the community day, the invite cards. What’s missing isn’t effort — it’s knowing who is actually out there. That’s what this morning is for.
The Framework
Inside the Room
Four moves. One morning that changes how you see your street.
Map the City
The real numbers on the people living within three miles of your building, and the gap between that number and your seats.
Occupy the Block
Where your church shows up before it asks anyone for anything.
Invite the City
The ask nobody’s making, and how to make it so people say yes.
This Is Us
One sentence that names who your church is becoming. Not a campaign. Your DNA.
You’ll Leave With
A clear picture of who actually lives inside your three-mile radius
The gap between that number and what your church can seat
One place you will show up, and one ask you will make
One sentence naming who your church is becoming
Working sheets you keep
38 pastors paid to be in the last room — on a Tuesday.
$97
First seat. A morning with Michael, working on your church, your neighborhood and your numbers — and your three miles on paper before you walk out. Snacks and coffee provided.
+ $79
each additional seat from your church
A team of four pays $334 — under $84 a head.
Coming with people? Choose the team option and set how many seats at checkout.
Watch
A word from Michael.
Come with a city on your heart. Leave with a plan in your hands.
Who’s Leading It
Michael Amey
Michael Amey has spent nearly 30 years in missions, outreach, and church leadership, including 15 years pastoring overseas. His work has centered on planting, strengthening, and mobilizing churches to move beyond event-driven evangelism and become consistently present in their communities. Through City First, Michael helps pastors turn a heart for their city into a practical strategy their teams can execute.
Before You Register
Good Questions.
Senior, executive, campus, and outreach pastors — and the leadership teams who’ll actually carry the work. It’s built for churches of every denomination, generally 75 to 1,000 in weekly attendance. This is a working session, not an audience for one speaker, so come with the people who make the decisions.
A morning of frameworks Michael has spent nearly thirty years building — fifteen of them pastoring overseas — applied directly to your church, your neighborhood and your actual numbers. You walk out with your three miles on paper and your first move committed — in your own handwriting, not as homework. Round 1 filled a room with paying pastors on a Tuesday; this one is a Saturday so your team can come. The seat is $97 — the same price Round 1 cost — and every additional seat from your church is $79, so a team of four comes in at $334.
The LAB Inc. · 15916 Crenshaw Blvd · Gardena, CA. Saturday, November 7, 2026. Doors open at 9:00 AM — come early, we start on time. Snacks and coffee provided.
Round 1 ran on a Tuesday, and the pastors who came kept saying the same thing: my team would have been here if it weren’t a workday. So Round 2 moved. A Saturday means your bivocational leaders, your outreach volunteers, and the people who actually run your ministries can build the plan with you instead of hearing about it secondhand.
Two to four is the sweet spot. You’ll work at tables of four, and the exercises are built for a team to argue through together — the pastor, whoever owns outreach, and one or two people who will still be doing this in ninety days. At $79 a teammate, bringing three people with you costs less per person than one seat did at Round 1. Coming alone works too — you’ll just be carrying the plan home to sell it.
Your church’s address, an honest read on your current attendance, and a pen. Everything else — the worksheets, the maps, the frameworks — is waiting on the table.
Please do. That’s the point. Your first seat is $97 and every teammate from your church is $79. Churches that come with their people leave furthest ahead.
The morning is a working session, and what you build is yours whether or not you ever spend another dollar. Near the end, Michael does show pastors one way his team can carry the plan for them month to month, for the churches that want the help. Take it or leave it — the plan is yours either way.
Map Your Three Miles
Saturday, November 7 · Doors 9:00 AM · Gardena, CA · $97
$97 for your seat, $79 for every teammate you bring. A team of four pays under $84 a head.