The Genesis of theEncarnação Alliance

of Urban Poor Movement Leaders

MATUL

Viv Grigg

His Purposes Begin in Proclamation Among the PoorThe Spirit of the LordIs upon meBecause the Lord Has anointed meTo preach good newsAmong the poorHe has sent me To proclaim freedom for the prisonersAnd recovery of sight for the blindTo release the oppressedTo proclaim the year of jubilee

- Jesus call

Some of the first believers in Tatalon, Manila

The city conversationsThe God conversationsThe interfacing of these conversations in transformation of the city.

Addenda: Theology as Conversations

5. Interfacing of

to urban conversation

urban

conversation

conversation

Themes2. Analysis of the

4. Theological

themes

3. Biblical analysisof urban themes

theological conversation Emergence of

Themes

1. Entrance

story of faith

in action

6. New

stories

faith action

PRAXIS

CONTEXT

REFLECTION

SpirallingIntegration of

Conversation

Consultation:

Manila, 74-85

New Zealand Servants base, 81-85

Kolkata, 83-94Spanish

Servant-Partners, 85-87, 89, 92,00-02 Bangkok, 84

My own early years following the Holy Spirit, 1974-94 Intercession / Prophetic Catalyzing of Incarnational Works, Writing and Mobilizing

Build like a master builder on Christ who is the foundation

Tamil, 06Korean

Portuguese

Kairos, Sao Paulo, 87-89

ManilaNairobi

Kolkata

Morada Sitio Shalom

Dhaka

Romania

Bangkok

Explosion of Other Incarnational Missions

Word Made Flesh

Lima

Mexico

Caracas

Innerchange

Urban Trek

Cairo Hong Kong

St Stephens Society

Church Missionary Society

Addis Ababa

We developed the Encarnacao Network to link these, and share trainingSome of these form churches, others are prophetic, others do development

UNOH

Indigenous movements in the slums are multiplying far more rapidly in some cities. In others there are still few churches, no movement.

Manila, 1500Nairobi, 2000

Mexico, 1500 Addis Ababa, 6

Kolkata, 10

Phnom Phen, 3Mumbai, 400

Sao Paulo, 10,000

Bangkok, 3

Chennai, 2000

Indigenous Movements in the SlumsWhat is God doing? They are now exploding

Genesis of the Encarnacao Network

1989 Laussanne call for 50,000 cross-cultural slum workers Story-telling consultations across India, 1993-96 Story-telling in Hong Kong, 1996

Developed links, methodology Story-telling in Brazil 2002

Incarnational missions, shared training processes Explored with seminaries and other groups

Story-telling in Bangkok, 2004 Brought in leaders of indigenous urban poor movements in Asia,

defined structure Developed Encarnacao Alliance Training Commission

City Consultations in Addis, Nairobi, Hong Kong, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad,

Kolkata, Delhi, Kampala, etc 2006 Meeting in Chennai to expand Indian network and

draw in African cities, launch MA, expand learning networks

The Encarnação Alliance Foci

1. Linking, Creating Synergies and Partnerships among the Indigenous Urban Poor Movements and Incarnational Missions

2. Mobilizing 50,000 new workers over the decade for the 1736 Least Evangelised Cities

3. Training: Story-telling Training City by City

CD Training Material for any city

MA in Transformational Leadership for Movement Leaders

Some Partners in the Encarnação Alliance Church Army Bible School, Nairobi (Kenya) Lilok(Manila), Foursquare(Manila) Servant-Partners (Bangkok) Praxis (Wellington) Oasis (Brazil) Kairos (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Servant Partners (US, International) Servants to Asia's Urban Poor (NZ, UK,Swiss, International) Global Urban Trek (United States) Word Made Flesh (United States) InnerCHANGE (United States) Morada Sitio Shalom (Brazil) Urban Leadership Foundation (Auckland, New Zealand) Deliverance Mission (Delhi, India) Life in Abundance (Addis Abba, Ethiopia) Connexions (Kolkata, India) ACT (Mumbai, India) St. Stephens Society (Hong Kong) Mission Ministries (Quezon City, Philippines) Love and Care Mission (Kampala, Uganda) etc.

Encarnação Alliance Leadership Viv Grigg, Coordinator, Viju Abraham, Chairman Arthur Thanggiah, Prayer Coordinator, Corrie de Boer, Training Commission Chairperson, Bryan Johnson, Training Coordinator Mobilisation, Heidi, _______ Capacity Building – John Huffman

The Encarnação Alliance is a relational network of leaders of urban poor movements, who seek synergies, partnerships together with an overarching dream of seeing 50,000 cross-cultural workers from the slums to the slums.

Several commissions are being developed: training, capacity building, publications, grassroots churchplanting, prayer, mobilization. These will be redefined this week.

The Encarnação Alliance Training Commission consists of the leaders and trainers of these organisations and partnering academic institutions

Training Delivery

Grassroots Slum Pastors TrainingLast Year 500+ slum pastors in 6 citiesMost recently in Kampala, Uganda (75), and

Hyderabad, India(70), Nagaland, Nagpur, Suva, Manila,

e.g. Kolkata, 18 leaders in training, now 45 meeting every 3 months,

Slum Movement Leadership

Creating an Alliance of Institutions Chennai (2007), Manila (2007), Auckland (2009), L.A.

(2008), (Latin America (next year)), Africa

MA in Urban Leadership Live in/next to the slums Action-reflection

First Urban Degree for Urban Poor Movement Leaders Reflection on movement leadership Enable leaders to move from 3 to 300 churches, into holism

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