The Genesis of the
Encarnação Alliance
of Urban Poor Movement Leaders
MATUL
Viv Grigg
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
Some of the first believers
And recovery of sight for the blind
in Tatalon, Manila
To release the oppressed
To proclaim the year of jubilee
- Jesus call
Consultation:
Addenda: Theology as
Conversations
The city conversations
The God conversations
The interfacing of these
conversations in
transformation of the
city.
1. Entrance
6. New
5. Interfacing of
theological conversation
faith action
stories
Emergence of
to urban conversation
PRAXIS
4. Theological
conversation
themes
story of faith
in action
Conversation
Themes
Spiralling
Integration of
CONTEXT
Themes
2. Analysis of the
REFLECTION
urban
conversation
3. Biblical analysis
of urban themes
My own early years following the Holy Spirit, 1974-94
Intercession / Prophetic Catalyzing of Incarnational Works, Writing and
Mobilizing
Korean
Tamil, 06
Servant-Partners, 85-87, 89, 92,00-02
Bangkok, 84
Kolkata, 83-94
Manila, 74-85
Spanish
Portuguese
Kairos, Sao Paulo, 87-89
New Zealand Servants base, 81-85
Build like a master builder on Christ who is the foundation
Explosion of Other Incarnational Missions
Urban Trek
Innerchange
Romania
Kolkata
Word Made Flesh
Cairo
Addis Ababa
Dhaka
Nairobi
Mexico
Caracas
Lima
St Stephens Society
Hong Kong
Bangkok
Church Missionary Society
Manila
Morada Sitio Shalom
UNOH
We developed the Encarnacao Network to link these, and share training
Some of these form churches, others are prophetic, others do development
Indigenous Movements in the Slums
What is God doing? They are now exploding
Mumbai, 400
Kolkata, 10
Phnom Phen, 3
Mexico, 1500
Bangkok, 3
Addis Ababa, 6
Chennai, 2000
Manila, 1500
Nairobi, 2000
Sao Paulo, 10,000
Indigenous movements in the slums are multiplying far more rapidly in some cities.
In others there are still few churches, no movement.
Genesis of the Encarnacao Network
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1989 Laussanne call for 50,000 cross-cultural slum workers
Story-telling consultations across India, 1993-96
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Story-telling in Hong Kong, 1996
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Story-telling in Brazil 2002
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Brought in leaders of indigenous urban poor movements in
Asia, defined structure
Developed Encarnacao Alliance Training Commission
City Consultations
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Incarnational missions, shared training processes
Explored with seminaries and other groups
Story-telling in Bangkok, 2004
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Developed links, methodology
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
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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
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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 crosscultural 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
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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,
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e.g. Kolkata, 18 leaders in training, now 45
meeting every 3 months,
Slum Movement Leadership
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Creating an Alliance of Institutions
 Chennai
(2007), Manila (2007), Auckland (2009), L.A.
(2008), (Latin America (next year)), Africa
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MA in Urban Leadership
 Live
in/next to the slums
 Action-reflection
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First Urban Degree for Urban Poor Movement Leaders
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Reflection on movement leadership
Enable leaders to move from 3 to 300 churches, into holism
Class Help Needed
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Web: Integrating Presentations into CD
Editor: Typing up presentations of students
Camera: Photo Stories
Record Keeping
Song Leader: Worship