When he entered the Manila squatter settlement of Tatalon in 1979, 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. Viv Grigg 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."

Companion to the Poor

Religion & Spirituality

Viv Grigg

Religious Studies

Marc Pubns

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

Grigg, Viv

Women As Leaders

Haubert, Katherine M.

Changing Shape of World Missions

Myers, Bryant L.

God So Loves the City: Seeking a Theology for Urban Mission

Healing the Children of War: A Handbook for Ministry to Children Who Have Suffered Deep Traumas

KILBOURN PHYLLI

Caring for the Whole Person

Allen, E. Anthony

Children in Crisis: A New Commitment

Parenting & Relationships

Essays in honor of Ted Ward. Cutting-edge mission thinkers address the challenges that Christians will face as they serve a needy world in the 21st century. Spurs new thinking in global mission, international development, church leadership and theological education.

With an Eye on the Future: Development and Mission in the 21st Century : Essays in Honor of Ted W. Ward

Mission Handbook: U.S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas 2007-2009

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