The Movement was an early-2010s Colorado Springs church plant / congregation associated with Yemi Mobolade and Paul Aung. The recovered source set supports describing it as a C&MA-affiliated church plant / congregation operating through a distributed missional-community network.
That classification is stronger than biography shorthand because it is supported by archived first-party website pages, Mobolade's own 2011 and 2013 formation posts, a Vimeo profile and video inventory, an archived FaithStreet listing, HarvestDowntown archive evidence, MidAmerica District archive checks, and Gazette reporting. Direct Christian and Missionary Alliance paperwork, commissioning or funding records, bylaws, board minutes, legal/fiscal records, and merger documents remain missing.
The archived themovementcs.com site used the name theMovement Church. It presented The Movement as a church organized around missional communities, oikos language, priesthood of all believers, Sunday gatherings, and city-focused mission.
The site described a missional community as a smaller expression of theMovement church on mission to reach local communities. It also described the church as seeking to be multicultural, growing, missional, and community-oriented.
Mobolade's 2011-04-13 Church Redefined post gives first-party formation context: he said he had moved to Colorado Springs about three and a half months earlier to work as a church planter / missionary, described Wednesday gatherings as a DNA-formation phase, and placed theMovement Church in an early period of rethinking church practice. His 2013-01-26 posts describe a goal of 13 oikos / missionary communities and name him as co-leader of the Downtown-Central Missionary Community in an example liturgy line.
The Movement should be described as C&MA-affiliated, with the evidence ladder kept visible:
Give page linked the Great Commission Fund to cmalliance.org and described The Alliance's worldwide ministry.2011-04-13 post says John Soper, a former C&MA vice president, taught the gathering formula The Movement was discussing.2014 archived pages describe HarvestDowntown as a church of the C&MA, matching The Movement's archived Sunday-gathering location.2014-05-25 described The Movement as a Colorado Springs congregation in the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination.2014 list Colorado C&MA churches such as HarvestDowntown and North Springs Alliance but do not show The Movement in the visible directory capture; retained 2014 district-superintendent updates did not surface The Movement, Yemi Mobolade, or Paul Aung by text search.This is not the same as direct denominational paperwork. Direct C&MA plant records, district records, worker-credential records, funding files, rosters, and closure or merger records remain unrecovered. Absence from the retained public district archive is a source-access limit, not proof that no internal file existed.
The archived 2013-12-09 leadership page lists:
The archived missional-community page also lists Abbey Mobolade and Yemi Mobolade as Downtown North II leaders. The current repo should treat Abbey's role here as a documented missional-community leadership role, not as a broader governance claim.
The archived home page lists Sunday Gathering on the second and fourth Sunday of the month at Harvest Downtown, 411 N Weber St, Colorado Springs, at 5:00pm.
The archived missional-community page lists named groups in North / Powers Blvd., Old Colorado City, Downtown North I, Downtown North II, and Downtown Uintah. The December 2013 calendar shows recurring missional-community events, Oikos Leaders, Leadership, Sunday Gathering, and Christmas Gathering.
This makes The Movement more than a single Sunday venue. It appears to have operated as a congregation with distributed midweek groups and twice-monthly Sunday gatherings.
2010: Vimeo profile/video layer supports public-facing activity by 2010-11-24 / 2010-11-25.2011-01-24: Vimeo metadata for Why Colorado Springs? names Paul and Yemi in a public video description.2011-04-13: Mobolade publicly described moving to Colorado Springs about three and a half months earlier for church-plant / missionary work and described early The Movement formation.2011-06-30: Mobolade described The Movement adopting BELLS missional practices.2012-09-15: Wayback home page identifies The Movement Church, Colorado Springs, and says the site would return soon.2013-01-26: Mobolade described The Movement's 2013 vision for 13 oikos / missionary communities.2013-05-26: Vimeo metadata for theMovement's 2013 Think Big Vision describes a practical goal of 13 new oikos / missional-community units.2013-07-22 and 2014-01-05: archived home pages show Sunday gathering at Harvest Downtown and the site's missional-community framing.2014-05-25: Gazette reports The Movement was merging with The Sanctuary.2014-10-04: retained MidAmerica District directory capture lists several Colorado C&MA churches, including HarvestDowntown, but does not show The Movement in the visible directory capture.2016-01-11: archived home page shows a service-provider error.The Movement is directly relevant to Yemi Mobolade's Colorado Springs religious formation. The archived leadership page names him as a pastor, and the archived missional-community page names him as a Downtown North II leader. The current Vimeo metadata also names Paul and Yemi together in early 2011.
Later biographies that say Mobolade moved to Colorado Springs to start or plant a church should be connected to this entity page, but founder language should remain cautious because recovered sources differ.
The source set does not support naming one uncontested founder:
2011 blog describes his move as church-plant / missionary work and his role in early formation.2014.The safest language is that The Movement was associated with both Mobolade and Aung, and that founding attribution remains unresolved pending direct C&MA or internal records.
Colorado Secretary of State search results include a modern The Movement Church, Inc. formed in Monument, Colorado, in 2023. Current evidence does not connect that entity to the 2010-era The Movement / themovementcs.com church. Do not merge them without direct evidence.
2014 merger into The Sanctuary?