The recovered source set supports treating The Movement as a real operating Colorado Springs church/congregation, not only a phrase in later biographies. The best current classification is:
C&MA-affiliated church plant / congregation operating through a distributed missional-community network.
That wording is stronger than the previous repo posture because it rests on archived first-party pages, Mobolade's own 2011 and 2013 blog posts, current Vimeo metadata, archived FaithStreet directory evidence, HarvestDowntown archive evidence, MidAmerica District archive checks, and local reporting. It remains bounded because direct Christian and Missionary Alliance church-plant paperwork, commissioning or funding records, bylaws, board minutes, formal merger documents, legal-entity records, and closure records have not been recovered.
The archived themovementcs.com site used the name theMovement Church and presented itself as a church organized around missional communities. The public web record shows:
2012-09-15: home page identifies The Movement Church, Colorado Springs, and says the site would return soon.2013-07-22 and 2014-01-05: home page lists missional communities, priesthood of all believers, calendar, and Sunday Gathering.2013-12-09: about/community pages describe mission, values, beliefs, missional-community model, leadership, calendar, and giving.2016-01-11: home page returns a service-provider display error.The archived site describes missional communities as smaller expressions of theMovement church on mission to reach their communities. It also explicitly says the church was not merely a Sunday institution but a 24/7 movement, while still using the name theMovement Church.
Mobolade's 2011-04-13 Church Redefined post is the strongest recovered first-party formation source. It says he had moved to Colorado Springs about three and a half months earlier to work as a church planter / missionary, describes Wednesday gatherings as a DNA-formation phase, and places theMovement Church in an early formation / "unlearning church" period.
The same post names John Soper, identified there as a former C&MA vice president, as teaching the gathering formula The Movement was discussing. This is evidence of C&MA influence and formation context; it is not a formal commissioning or funding record.
Mobolade's 2011-06-30 post describes adopting Michael Frost's BELLS missional-practice framework. His 2013-01-26 posts say he moved to Colorado Springs to begin a new church movement, describe a 13 oikos / missionary-community aim for 2013, and give an example line naming Yemi Mobolade as co-leader of the Downtown-Central Missionary Community.
The archived leadership page lists:
The archived missional-community page also lists Abbey Mobolade and Yemi Mobolade among Downtown North II leaders. This supports a direct ministry-role tie for Yemi and a local missional-community role for Abbey, but it should not be expanded into broader governance or mentor claims without additional records.
The 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 missional-community page lists five local groups, including North / Powers Blvd., Old Colorado City, Downtown North I, Downtown North II, and Downtown Uintah, with specific meeting addresses and leaders. The December 2013 calendar shows recurring missional-community meetings, Oikos Leaders, Leadership, Sunday Gathering, and Christmas Gathering.
This supports classifying The Movement as a congregation with a distributed neighborhood / oikos structure rather than only a single-site Sunday service.
Harvest Downtown's January and March 2014 archived pages identify HarvestDowntown as a Colorado Springs church and describe it in the footer as a church of the C&MA. This supports a C&MA venue / ecosystem context for The Movement's Sunday gathering location. It does not establish a sponsorship, fiscal, or oversight agreement between HarvestDowntown and The Movement.
The C&MA evidence is now multi-layered:
Give page links the Great Commission Fund to cmalliance.org and describes it as funding the worldwide ministry of The Alliance.2011-04-13 post says John Soper, a former C&MA vice president, taught the gathering formula they were discussing.2014 archived pages describe HarvestDowntown as a church of the C&MA, matching The Movement's archived Sunday-gathering location.2014-05-25 describes The Movement as a Colorado Springs congregation in the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination.This is enough for C&MA-affiliated wording. It is not a substitute for direct C&MA district or national plant records.
The records-and-archives pass points the Colorado Springs C&MA context toward the MidAmerica District, not the Rocky Mountain District. Preserved MidAmerica District archive pages from October 2014 list Colorado C&MA churches including HarvestDowntown and North Springs Alliance; The Movement does not appear in the visible district-directory capture. The archived MidAmerica church-planting page existed but was under construction.
Text searches of retained January, February, March, May, June, and July 2014 MidAmerica District superintendent update PDFs did not surface The Movement, Yemi Mobolade, or Paul Aung. The March 2014 update lists Victor Matos at HarvestDowntown among newly licensed workers, but does not list Mobolade or Aung in that visible section.
This narrows the public district-archive gap. It does not prove that no internal plant file, funding file, credential file, annual statistical report, or closure / merger record existed. The district-directory capture is also after the reported May 2014 merger.
The current Vimeo profile themovementcs supplies an earlier public signal:
2010-11-252010-11-24: Pilot Video2011 video metadata says Paul and Yemi described why the harvest was ripe in Colorado Springs20132013 Think Big Vision metadata describes a goal of 13 new oikos / missional-community unitsyt-dlp --list-subs checks found no platform-provided subtitles for any of the seven videos; local ASR tooling was checked and was not available in the environmentThis narrows the public-facing operating window to late 2010 / early 2011, but it does not settle the formal launch date. Full video transcripts remain unavailable until audio/video retrieval and ASR or manual transcription are performed.
Gazette reporting published 2014-05-25 says The Movement was merging with The Sanctuary and attributes founding to Paul Aung about three years earlier. Full-text retrieval of the Gazette article also shows a separate Bethany Baptist / Sanctuary property-transfer narrative: Bethany Baptist gave its West Colorado Avenue building, property, and assets to The Sanctuary, while The Movement was described as a third congregation merging with The Sanctuary.
Archived The Sanctuary Westside pages from February and December 2014 confirm The Sanctuary's web presence and Westside / recovery-oriented framing, but retained page text did not surface The Movement, Yemi Mobolade, Paul Aung, Bethany, or merger mechanics.
The 2016 site-error capture supports that themovementcs.com was no longer serving the archived church site by January 2016.
The exact legal, denominational, financial, pastoral, and membership mechanics of the merger remain unresolved.
2014; The Movement site lists both as pastors but does not name a founder.2010; Gazette's three years ago phrasing points to roughly 2011; the archived website is visible by 2012.2011-04-13 blog post says he moved to Colorado Springs about three and a half months earlier for church-plant / missionary work, which supports late 2010 or early 2011 as the formation window but not a precise launch date.2014 materials. This should remain a source-access limit because the directory capture came after the reported merger and public updates are not complete personnel or plant files.2020 listing may be stale directory residue. It supports C&MA classification and contact metadata, not active church operation in 2020.The Movement Church, Inc. formed in Monument in 2023 appears to be a same-name collision. Do not merge it with the 2010-era The Movement without direct evidence.2011.2010 / early 2011.