Following the Jesus in the Underside of Megalopolises

The Ancient Principle of the Incarnation

the Modern Reality of Global Urbanization and

Poverty

                                              

The Hidden Years of Preparation

• Family Security• Loving Presence of God• Longing for the Word• Following the Master• Disciplines of Youth• Confronting the Sins of Leaders• Hear God and do the Symbolic• Entering into the Word that Reverbates• Meeting the God of the Mountains• Seeing the Nations and the Poor

The Heart of the Great CommissionLuke 4:18, 19

• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,because he has anointed meto preach good news to the poor.

• He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisonersand recovery of sight for the blind,

• to release the oppressed,to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

• (central passage in Luke, Acts, refers back to the Servant Songs of Isaiah and the Jubilee of Leviticus)

The Power of the Spirit• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

because he has anointed me

The Centrality of Proclamation• to preach good news

The Focus of Ministry• to the poor.

The Holistic Style and Context of Proclamation

• He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisonersand recovery of sight for the blind,

The Goal of Justice• to release the oppressed,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. (The eternal jubilee, the year of redistribution).

• Conversion and church growth are intermediate goals not end goals.

Spirituality of Incarnation (John 1:14)

• The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

• We have seen his gloryglory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father,

• Full of gracegrace and truth.truth.

The Coming of the Presence

• With each step of obedience

• On entrance to the slums

• In the context of revival

• Releasing revival power

• Deepening gifts of the Spirit

Apostolic Spirituality

• Hearing the voice of God at each step

• Exercising faith

• Defining the mission and structure

• Calling forth the team

• Releasing it to others

Spirituality of Community

• Bands of men and women whose hearts God had touched (1 Sam 10:26)

• Building Apostolic Communities, wandering bands of preaching friars

• The chaos of community

Growth of Servants-Style Incarnational Urban Growth of Servants-Style Incarnational Urban Poor Churchplanting MissionsPoor Churchplanting Missions

Initial Seed Sowing, Training Bases (78-93)Initial Seed Sowing, Training Bases (78-93)

Kairos (Sao Paulo)

Servants to Asia's Urban Poor(New Zealand)

Lima

Manila

Servant-Partners

Viv & Urban Leadership Foundation

Manila 74-83

NZ 81-83Brazil 87-89

LA 85-86, 91-95

Calcutta 85-93

Portuguese

German

Korean

Spanish

Book Translation

English

Growth of Servants-Style Incarnational Urban Growth of Servants-Style Incarnational Urban Poor Churchplanting MissionsPoor Churchplanting Missions

Initial Seed Sowing, Training Bases (78-93)Initial Seed Sowing, Training Bases (78-93)

& New Zealand Expansion (81-96) & New Zealand Expansion (81-96)

Kairos (Sao Paulo)

Servants to Asia's Urban Poor(New Zealand)

Lima

MexicoManila

Servant-Partners

Viv - Urban Leadership Foundation

Phnom PhenBangkok

CalcuttaDhaka

Delhi

SwitzerlandUK

Innerchange

Brisbane

Growth of Incarnational Urban Poor Growth of Incarnational Urban Poor Churchplanting MissionsChurchplanting Missions

Brazilian and Latin Expansion Brazilian and Latin Expansion

Kairos (Sao Paulo)

Servants to Asia's Urban Poor(New Zealand)

Lima

MexicoManila

SpainPortugal

North Africa

Cabo Verde

Ecuador

Columbia

VenezuelaSenegal

CalcuttaBangladesh

Growth of Incarnational Urban Poor Growth of Incarnational Urban Poor Churchplanting MissionsChurchplanting Missions

US Mission Expansion US Mission Expansion

Kairos (Sao Paulo)Servants to Asia's Urban Poor(New Zealand)

Lima

MexicoManila

Servant-Partners

Innerchange

Istanbul

Nairobi

Calcutta

Bangkok

Tegulcigalpa

Mumbai Phnom Phen

Caracas

LanchouXian

In process

Workers or Teams in place

North Africa

The Grigg FamilyViv & Ieda,

Monique, Leonardo, BiancaThe disciplines of character

The daily joys and failures in relationshipsThe struggle to build rhythms of spirituality

Coping with limitations