Encarnacao Alliance

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Encarnacao Alliance

• Bringing Christs Love to the Worlds
  Slum-dwellers

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Who are the Encarnacao Alliance?

• A network of urban poor ministries
• From Asia, Africa and Latin America
• Incarnational ministry among the poor
• Servants, Servant Partners, Kairos, and many
  indigenous movements
• Movements preparing to evangelize
• 3,500 cities. Seeking to mobilize 50,000 new
  cross cultural workers to the slums by 2010.

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The vision of the Alliance is to see churches
established that proclaim the Good News of the
Kingdom of God among the slum dwellers of the
worlds poorest cities and model true Christian
living on the example of Jesus Christ.
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Encarnacao AllianceTraining Commission

• Macro goals
• To train urban poor church planters
• To train urban poor community development workers
• To network city leaders
• To develop a Kingdom perspective in Gods servants

• Micro Goals
• Train facilitators who will be able to
• - Provide training
• - Disciple, pastor and mentor interns
• - Help interns become successful in their
  mission
• - Empower the interns to train others

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Who are the people we are training for
servanthood in the slums?

• Grass roots indigenous volunteers who want to
  plant churches or commence a community
  development projects
• Adults over 18 years of age who are semi-literate
  to literate
• Unbelievers who want to follow Christ in the slum
• Committed Christians who may have not yet been
  discipled
• Men and women recommended by the city leadership
  and in good standing with their local Church
  leadership

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EATC has two main strategies that have been
developed over the last 2 years from 2004 to 2006

• A Grass roots training program that has developed
  into the idea of grass roots learning networks in
  each City
• A graduate program specifically a Masters of
  Arts in Transformational Urban Leadership to be
  introduced in five seminaries/universities for
  training transformational urban poor movement
  leaders and trainers

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The Grass Roots program report..

• Started in January 2005 in Manila and Chennai,
  then later in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad,
  Kampala.
• It started as a formal training seminar in a
  classroom/retreat centre and later moved to an
  incarnational slum setting using more informal
  learning approaches

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Approaches have changed..

• The initial concept was the development of
  learning CDs and DVDs that individual pastors
  would use to train 5-10 disciples for work among
  the poor
• It has now evolved to the creation of a voluntary
  learning network or urban poor workers in each
  city, meeting every 3months for 1-2 days
  focussing on one of twelve topics from an urban
  poor church planters curriculum, using a lecture,
  testimony, drama, and prayer format.

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At this gathering we want to learn from each
other.

• And continue to develop a grass roots training
  program that will multiply indigenous urban poor
  workers
• And develop a mission movement from the slums to
  the slums targeting another 35 cities over the
  next 2 years

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There are two main thrusts of the Grass roots
training happening at present.

1. Moving existing pastors and urban workers into
   the slums from surrounding areas through a one
   week incarnational training approach, e.g. a
   trainer living in the slum for a week and
   inviting others to join him in the slum. Bryan is
   doing this at present..are there others who
   want to do this as well?

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• 2. The development of a learning network meeting
  every three months where leaders bring their
  disciples for training in grass roots urban poor
  ministry. This approach has an ongoing impact on
  the city towards the urban poor and encourages
  existing workers to engage in disciple making and
  bring those disciples to the learning network
  training days, where they tell their story in
  drama and learn from other workers stories and
  experiences in a stimulating and fun way that can
  communicate to both literate and illiterate
  workers.

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A new third thrust is emerging

• 3. The sending of indigenous urban poor workers
  from one city to another to pioneer urban poor
  ministry in another city
• The urban poor church becomes a missionary
  sending church
• The emergence of urban poor missionary sending
  agencies, denominations and churches.

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What methods are used to train the indigenous and
cross cultural workers?

• Andragogical methods appropriate for adult
  learners with experiences relevant to the
  learning process
• Oral methods of learning appropriate to
  illiterate learners
• Disciple making of novices in groups of 3-6
• The use of drama and testimony interpreting life
  experiences in slum ministry
• Practical skills based on site learning
• Use of a website and a training cd for those
  leaders with computer skills and access, who
  become coordinators of the learning network

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Training Goals

• An holistic worldview
• Trainers and learners will develop an holistic
  biblical worldview integrating the physical,
  spiritual, social and wisdom needs of the
  community

• Biblical Authority
• Trainers and learners will be committed to the
  authority of the Bible in the teaching of the
  kingdom of God and implementing its mandate.
• Mark 16v15

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Training foundations are based on the Biblical
foundations that

• Jesus the embodiment
• Jesus is the example of the person a Trainer
• aspires to be and the incarnation of the
  Kingdom of God citizen on earth

• The Holy Spirit the executor
• The Holy Spirit is the person of the Trinity who
  incarnates Jesus Christ in the life of the
  Trainer to fulfill the mandate of the Kingdom

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Definition

• The Kingdom of God
• The kingdom is a redemed social order under the
  reign of the Christlike God in which every
  relationship is Christlike, and each individual
  and social group the family, the trade
  organisation, the State comes not to be
  ministered unto but to minister, as perfect as
  the Father in heaven is perfect, and the whole
  of humanity incarnates the love of God as
  embodied in Jesus of Nazareth
• Dr Henry S Coffin, WCC, Missions Conference,
• Edinburgh, 1910

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The Kingdom has a holistic impact on human and
social order

• On people
• Body, Mind, Spirit
• People are creating societies
• Jesus Christ is impacting people through the
  power of the kingdom of God at work in their
  lives
• There is a conflict of powers and kingdoms

• On social and cultural systems
• Political, Religious, Economic ideas
• Societies cultures, order, laws, organizations,
  are shaping people
• Sin the devil and evil powers impact society and
  its people too
• God calls us to exercise authority

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We are living in the midst of Worldwide conflict
change

• Terrorism
• War
• Rebellion
• Fear
• Persecution
• Corruption
• Collapse of confidence
• But what is God doing in history ?

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The right to change a society ?

• So many revolutions in human history have changed
  societies for the worse, and sacrificed millions
  of lives in the process. For example, Diocletian
  of Rome, the Crusaders, Muslims in Asia, Hitler
  in Germany, Mao in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, .
• We must make sure that the truth of Gods Word
  guides our revolutionary zeal, so the changes we
  instigate are for the good of humanity and the
  extension of Gods kingdom. Change with Gods
  grace.

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Are you ready to be salt and light?

• The slum dwellers need your salt and light
• There are 560 million destitute poor in China and
  India alone - 2006
• In 2001 there were 924 million slum dwellers in
  the world.
• 31.6 of the worlds urban population live in
  slums. United Nations Global Report on Human
  Settlements, 2003

• How will they hear unless someone goes?
• Most have no resources and no hope.
• Will you have compassion on their despair?
• Jer. 297 Seek the welfare of the city where I
  have sent you into exile
• Will you go and live among the poor?