The Genesis of the Encarna

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The Genesis of theEncarnação Allianceof Urban
Poor Movement Leaders

• Viv GriggUrban Leadership Foundation

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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 And recovery of sight for the
blind To release the oppressed To proclaim the
year of jubilee - Jesus call
Some of the first believers in Tatalon, Manila
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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
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In Manila, 54 works have been formed
Expansion of Servants to Asias Urban Poor
UK Base, 87-
Swiss Base, 89-
Kolkata
Canadian base, 06-
Naga base, 05-
Dhaka
Phnom Phen, 89-
Delhi
Manila, team 81-
Bangkok, 83-00
Banda Aceh, 05-
Australia base, 86-
New Zealand base, 81-
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Expansion of Servants Among the Poor,
Servant-Partners
Cairo
LA base
Kolkata
Mumbai
North Africa
LA base
Addis Ababa
Mexico
Bangkok
Nairobi
Guadalajara
Manila
Sao Paulo
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Expansion of Brazilian mission, Kairos
Kolkata
Macau
North Africa
Dhaka
Mexico
Senegal
Central America
Manila
Caracas
Mozambique
Kairos, Sao Paulo, 87-89
Lima base
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Explosion of Other Incarnational Missions
Romania
Urban Trek
St Stephens Society
Innerchange
Kolkata
Word Made Flesh
Hong Kong
Cairo
Addis Ababa
Dhaka
Bangkok
Nairobi
Mexico
Manila
Church Missionary Society
Caracas
Morada Sitio Shalom
Lima
UNOH
We developed the Encarnacao Network to link
these, and share training Some of these form
churches, others are prophetic, others do
development
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Indigenous Movements in the Slums What is God
doing? They are now exploding
Kolkata, 10
Mumbai, 400
Phnom Phen, 3
Bangkok, 3
Mexico, 1500
Addis Ababa, 6
Manila, 1500
Chennai, 2000
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.
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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

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Training Delivery

• Grassroots Slum Pastors Training
• Last Year 500 slum pastors in 6 cities
• This year so far, 246 pastors
• Just 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

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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

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The Grigg FamilyViv Ieda,Monique, Leonardo,
Bianca

• Bianca (in hat) graduatingwith PhD