The powerful, inspiring story of pioneer missionary Viv Grigg, who lived and worked in a Manila slum among the poor and forgotten. Besides relating his personal experiences, Grigg projects a challenging vision for kingdom ministry and holistic evangelism. Originally published in English under the title Companion to the Poor.

Siervos Entre Los Pobres/Companion to the Poor (Nueva Creacion Series) (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Grigg, Viv

Christian Books & Bibles

Viv Grigg/Urban Leadership Foundation

Companion to the Poor

Authentic

The urban poor now constitute an unreached people group that is the third largest in the worldâ€”one that is doubling every decade and among the most responsive to the gospel. The most strategic and needed actions to reach this growing population with the gospel relate to breaking the bonds of injusticeâ€”sin, oppression, and povertyâ€”and modeling Jesus' approach for social change by establishing movements of disciples among the poor. This revised edition of Cry of the Urban Poor reports the findings by Viv Grigg and his co-workers after years of living and working in the slums of some of the largest cities in Asia, Latin America, and the United States. It describes their efforts to discover universal principles for church-planting among the poor. This combination of anthropological and sociological reflections, integrated with principles drawn from practical experience, will challenge the missing emphasis on mission in the world's great city slums.

Cry of the Urban Poor

Religious Studies

Marc Pubns

The economic wisdom of the scriptures is critical in engaging the complex issues of families and New Zealand society in the global world. Ten principles of economics - love, productivity, creativity, cooperation, work and rest, simplicity, redistribution, management, ownership, freedom and celebration - are a basis for Economic Discipleship. These are applied to critical issues for Kiwis. How do we live in a debt-laden economy? What are principles of land rights and ownership? What are the ethics of government asset sales? How do the scriptural principles apply to the current TPPA trade agreement issues? A must read for anyone engaged in seeking justice! A must read for New Zealand Christian leaders!

Kiwinomics: Conversations with New Zealand's Economic Soul

Urban Leadership Foundation

Companion to the Poor This paradigm-shifting book has become a best-selling classic, translated into six languages, republished yearly for 30 years. It keeps upending the lifestyles of each decade of idealist seekers for genuine spirituality. Over a thousand workers have ended up in the slums of the world's mega-cities after reading it. It is the story of a young man's struggle in the slum of Tatalon, Manila. A struggle to find a way to live among the poor, preach good news to the poor, and transform the poverty. Entering into poverty, struggling with sickness, rejection and the many experiences of engagement in a dark place, out of it came the formation of a faith community and the birthing of a new pattern of evangelical theology of preaching grace, forming communities of faith and love, effecting economic change and doing justice. The fruit of those struggles has been a plethora of movements of incarnational workers living among the 1.3 billion urban poor of the global slums. This book encapsulates the core of new paradigms of evangelical theology - justice-oriented, while proclaiming good news, caring for those on the margins while growing communities of faith, oral theology based versus book-based, apostolic versus inward, with a spirituality of both quietness and the emotional celebratory spirituality of those who must release the pains of oppression weekly, seeking transformion on this earth as a progression to the coming reign of Christ.

Companion to the Poor: Christ in the Urban Slums

1.4 Billion slum-dwellers. Thousands of movements of churches among them. Very spiritual churches! Yet needing to understand the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and how it impacts poverty, injustice, education, health care, environment, land rights... For twenty years a cluster of activist theologians have worked together globally to develop the MA in Transformational Urban Leadership training slum leaders in holistic theology. A domain of knowledge, Urban Poor Missiology, has developed. A style of education, or pedagogy, based on story-telling, contextual analysis, and action-reflection has emerged that includes 23 areas of knowledge. These ideas have also developed through grassroots Slum Leaders' Learning Networks. This book is a call to now scale up these ideas, multiplying Learning Networks and developing Urban Leadership Institutes in the mega-cities for both sum leaders and policy makers who can change the structures that cause the poverty of the slums. Dr Viv Grigg has pioneered movements in multiple cities among the urban poor, and written paradigm-forming books about incarnational mission in the slums, church-planting among the urban poor, apostolic orders, transformative citywide revival, theology of land rights and city leadership.

Slum Dwellers' Theology: Pedagogy in the Slums (Slum Dwellers' Pedagogy)

This book is a study in a missions theology underlying both process and goals of "City-wide Transforming Revival." It has been grounded in local realities of Auckland as a representative modern/postmodern city. Global processes among urban missions strategists and theologians have provoked the question, "What is the relationship of the Spirit of Christ to the transformation of a postmodern city?" This book proposes a new hermeneutic (the processes of studying, interpreting and applying the scriptures) of "transformational conversations", an interfacing of faith community conversations and urban conversations.

The Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City (Asbury Theological Seminary)

Emeth Press

The urban poor now constitute an unreached people group that is the third largest in the world—one that is doubling every decade and among the most responsive to the gospel. The most strategic and needed actions to reach this growing population with the gospel relate to breaking the bonds of injustice—sin, oppression, and poverty—and modeling Jesus' approach for social change by establishing movements of disciples among the poor. This revised edition of Cry of the Urban Poor reports the findings by Viv Grigg and his co-workers after years of living and working in the slums of some of the largest cities in Asia, Latin America, and the United States. It describes their efforts to discover universal principles for church-planting among the poor. This combination of anthropological and sociological reflections, integrated with principles drawn from practical experience, will challenge the missing emphasis on mission in the world's great city slums.

Cry Of The Urban Poor: Reaching The Slums Of Today's Mega-Cities

Authentic Media

When he entered the Manila squatter settlement of Tatalon, Viv Grigg knew what he wanted to do but not how to do it. The need was obvious - to establish a Christian church among Asia's forgotten people, the impoverished slum dwellers of its vast megalopolises. The challenge was to find a way that did not treat people's spiritual needs in isolation from their poverty, without simply becoming another economic or social relief program with no evangelistic component. This book is the enthralling story of how the author met and solved this problem. But in a sense, it is an unfinished story. What has begun is but the beginning of the founding of a Christian community in a dark place. This is not Viv Grigg's story alone, but God's story. For it is God who is working in Tatalon and urban slums like it, and giving people a hope that affects all of life. He challenges us to reexamine our strategies and design new approaches that will build Christ's kingdom among the poor "who comprise nearly half the world." There is a 2014 updated version.

Companion To The Poor: Christ In The Urban Slums

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