The Genesis of theEncarnação Alliance

of Urban Poor Movement Leaders

Viv GriggUrban Leadership Foundation

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

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

Manila, team 81-

New Zealand base, 81-

Australia base, 86-

KolkataCanadian base, 06-

Swiss Base, 89-UK Base, 87-

Delhi Phnom Phen, 89-

Banda Aceh, 05-

Bangkok, 83-00

Naga base, 05-

Expansion of Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor In Manila, 54 works have been formed

Dhaka

Manila Nairobi

Addis Ababa

KolkataLA baseMumbai

North Africa

Cairo

Bangkok

Expansion of Servants Among the Poor, Servant-Partners

LA base

Mexico

Sao Paulo

Guadalajara

Manila

Mozambique

Kolkata

Caracas

DhakaNorth Africa

Senegal

Expansion of Brazilian mission, Kairos

Lima base

Central America

Mexico

Kairos, Sao Paulo, 87-89

Macau

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

The Encarnação Alliance

Linking the Indigenous Urban Poor Movements and Incarnational Missions

•Story-telling Training City by City

• Scholarships for each one

• Preparing for 50,000 new workers over the decade for the 1736 Least Evangelised Cities

Training Delivery

Grassroots Slum Pastors TrainingLast Year 500+ slum pastors in 6 citiesThis year so far, 246 pastorsJust headed to Kampala, Uganda (75), and

Hyderabad, India(70) e.g. Kolkata, 18 leaders in training, now meeting

every 3 months, and have expanded to 35 leaders, one leader has started 5 new house churches

Slum Movement Leadership

Creating an Alliance of Institutions Chennai (Jan), Manila (2006), Auckland (last week),

L.A. (this week), (Latin America (next year)), Nairobi

MA in Urban Leadership Live in 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

The Grigg FamilyViv & Ieda,

Monique, Leonardo, Bianca

Bianca (in hat) graduatingwith PhD