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The Genesis of the Encarnação Alliance of Urban Poor Movement Leaders MATUL Viv Grigg
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His Purposes Begin in Proclamation Among the Poor The Spirit of the Lord Is upon me Because the Lord Has anointed me To preach good news Among the poor He has sent me To proclaim freedom for the prisoners And recovery of sight for the blind To release the oppressed To proclaim the year of jubilee - Jesus call Some of the first believers in Tatalon, Manila
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Consultation:
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Manila, 74-85 New Zealand Servants base, 81-85 Kolkata, 83-94 Spanish Servant-Partners, 85-87, 89, 92,00-02Bangkok, 84 My own early years f ollowing 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, 06 Korean Portuguese Kairos, Sao Paulo, 87-89
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Manila Nairobi 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 training Some of these form churches, others are prophetic, others do development UNOH
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Indigenous movements in the slums are multiplying far more rapidly in some cities. In others there are still few churches, no movement. Manila, 1500 Nairobi, 2000 Mexico, 1500Addis Ababa, 6 Kolkata, 10 Phnom Phen, 3 Mumbai, 400 Sao Paulo, 10,000 Bangkok, 3 Chennai, 2000 Indigenous Movements in the Slums What is God doing? They are now exploding
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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
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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: S tory-telling Training City by City CD Training Material for any city MA in Transformational Leadership for Movement Leaders
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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 Instructions: Delete sample document icon and replace with working document icons as follows: Create document in Word. Return to PowerPoint. From Insert Menu, select Object… Click “Create from File” Locate File name in “File” box Make sure “Display as Icon” is checked. Click OK Select icon From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings. Click “Object Action” and select “Edit” Click OK 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
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Training Delivery Grassroots Slum Pastors Training Last Year 500+ slum pastors in 6 cities Most 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,
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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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Class Help Needed Web: Integrating Presentations into CD Editor: Typing up presentations of students Camera: Photo Stories Record Keeping Song Leader: Worship
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