Transcript Grassroots (PP)

Encarnacao Alliance
Bringing Christ’s Love to
the World’s Slum-dwellers
Who are the Encarnacao Alliance?
A network of urban poor ministries
 From Asia, Africa and Latin America
 Incarnational ministry among the
poor
 Servants, Servant Partners, Kairos,
and many indigenous movements
 Movements preparing to evangelize
3,500 cities. Seeking to mobilize
50,000 new cross cultural workers to
the slums by 2010.
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Encarnacao Alliance Vision
The vision of the Alliance is to see
churches established that proclaim the
Good News of the Kingdom of God
among the slum dwellers of the world’s
poorest cities and model true Christian
living on the example of Jesus Christ.
Encarnacao Alliance
Training Commission
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Macro goals
To train urban poor
church planters
To train urban poor
community
development workers
To network city
leaders
To develop a Kingdom
perspective in God’s
servants
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Micro Goals
Train facilitators who
will be able to;
Provide training
Disciple, pastor and
mentor interns
Help interns become
successful in their
mission
Empower the interns
to train others
Who are the people we are training
for servanthood in the slums?
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Grass roots indigenous volunteers who want to
plant churches or commence a community
development projects
Adults over 18 years of age who are semi-literate
to literate
Unbelievers who want to follow Christ in the slum
Committed Christians who may have not yet
been discipled
Men and women recommended by the city
leadership and in good standing with their local
Church leadership
EATC has two main strategies that
have been developed over the last
2 years from 2004 to 2006
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A Grass roots training program that has
developed into the idea of grass roots
learning networks in each City
A graduate program; specifically a Masters
of Arts in Transformational Urban
Leadership to be introduced in five
seminaries/universities for training
transformational urban poor movement
leaders and trainers
The Grass Roots program report..
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Started in January 2005 in Manila
and Chennai, then later in Kolkata,
Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kampala.
It started as a formal training
seminar in a classroom/retreat
centre and later moved to an
incarnational slum setting using
more informal learning approaches
Approaches have changed..
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The initial concept was the development of
learning CD’s and DVD’s that individual
pastors would use to train 5-10 disciples
for work among the poor
It has now evolved to the creation of a
voluntary learning network or urban poor
workers in each city, meeting every
3months for 1-2 days focussing on one of
twelve topics from an urban poor church
planters curriculum, using a lecture,
testimony, drama, and prayer format.
At this gathering we want to learn
from each other….
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And continue to develop a grass
roots training program that will
multiply indigenous urban poor
workers
And develop a mission movement
from the slums to the slums
targeting another 35 cities over the
next 2 years
There are two main thrusts of the
Grass roots training happening at
present….
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Moving existing pastors and urban
workers into the slums from surrounding
areas through a one week incarnational
training approach, e.g. a trainer living in
the slum for a week and inviting others
to join him in the slum. Bryan is doing
this at present……..are there others who
want to do this as well?
2. The development of a learning network
meeting every three months where
leaders bring their disciples for training in
grass roots urban poor ministry. This
approach has an ongoing impact on the
city towards the urban poor and
encourages existing workers to engage in
disciple making and bring those disciples
to the learning network training days,
where they tell their story in drama and
learn from other workers stories and
experiences in a stimulating and fun way
that can communicate to both literate and
illiterate workers.
A new third thrust is emerging…
3. The sending of indigenous urban
poor workers from one city to
another to pioneer urban poor
ministry in another city…
The urban poor church becomes a
missionary sending church…
The emergence of urban poor
missionary sending agencies,
denominations and churches.
What methods are used to train the
indigenous and cross cultural
workers?
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“Andragogical” methods appropriate for adult
learners with experiences relevant to the learning
process
Oral methods of learning appropriate to illiterate
learners
Disciple making of novices in groups of 3-6
The use of drama and testimony interpreting life
experiences in slum ministry
Practical skills based on site learning
Use of a website and a training cd for those
leaders with computer skills and access, who
become coordinators of the learning network
Training Goals
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An holistic
worldview
Trainers and
learners will
develop an holistic
biblical worldview
integrating the
physical, spiritual,
social and wisdom
needs of the
community
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Biblical Authority
Trainers and
learners will be
committed to the
authority of the
Bible in the
teaching of the
kingdom of God
and implementing
its mandate.
Mark 16v15
Training foundations are based on
the Biblical foundations that…
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Jesus the
embodiment
Jesus is the
example of the
person a Trainer
aspires to be and
the incarnation of
the Kingdom of
God citizen on
earth
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The Holy Spirit the
executor
The Holy Spirit is
the person of the
Trinity who
incarnates Jesus
Christ in the life of
the Trainer to fulfill
the mandate of the
Kingdom
Definition
The Kingdom of God
“The kingdom is a redemed social order under the
reign of the Christlike God in which every
relationship is Christlike, and each individual
and social group – the family, the trade
organisation, the State – comes not to be
ministered unto but to minister, as perfect as
the Father in heaven is perfect, and the whole
of humanity incarnates the love of God as
embodied in Jesus of Nazareth:”
Dr Henry S Coffin, WCC, Missions Conference,
Edinburgh, 1910
The Kingdom has a holistic impact
on human and social order
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On people
Body, Mind, Spirit
People are creating
societies
Jesus Christ is
impacting people
through the power of
the kingdom of God at
work in their lives
There is a conflict of
powers and kingdoms
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On social and cultural
systems
Political, Religious,
Economic ideas
Societies cultures,
order, laws,
organizations, are
shaping people
Sin the devil and evil
powers impact society
and its people too
God calls us to
exercise authority
We are living in the midst of
Worldwide conflict & change
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Terrorism
War
Rebellion
Fear
Persecution
Corruption
Collapse of
confidence
But what is God
doing in history ?
The right to change a society ?
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So many revolutions in human history
have changed societies for the worse, and
sacrificed millions of lives in the process.
For example, Diocletian of Rome, the
Crusaders, Muslims in Asia, Hitler in
Germany, Mao in China, Pol Pot in
Cambodia, .
We must make sure that the truth of God’s
Word guides our revolutionary zeal, so the
changes we instigate are for the good of
humanity and the extension of God’s
kingdom. Change with God’s grace.
Are you ready to be salt and light?
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The slum dwellers need
your salt and light
There are 560 million
destitute poor in China
and India alone - 2006
In 2001 there were 924
million slum dwellers in
the world.
31.6% of the world’s
urban population live in
slums. United Nations
Global Report on Human
Settlements, 2003
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How will they hear
unless someone goes?
Most have no resources
and no hope.
Will you have
compassion on their
despair?
Jer. 29:7 “Seek the
welfare of the city
where I have sent you
into exile”
Will you go and live
among the poor?