Project 1: Web-based, Field-based Training Infrastructure for Urban Poor Workers:

Incarnational workers in the slums need ongoing training and leadership development that builds on these years. I have personally spent much of the last 9 months exploring the viability of a training infrastructure with partners in the network. We expect to develop this over the next 4 years to an M.A. level framework. We may market this to the seminaries (I have been in negotiation with 13), but our network leaders’ decision is to get our own collective processes in place first and raise our own capital to do so. Teams of workers in the least evangelized cities can often find access to the Internet or use CD-Roms. We expect step by step to develop a curriculum framework online of 10 hour modules from experienced workers in the slums. This infrastructure is a preparation for expansion from hundreds to the next 3000 workers.

50,000/ yr for 3 years

Project 2: Urban Poor Workers and Mission Leaders Network/ Consultations:

a. Over the next year, I am planning three consultations similar to Brazil. These will train, and facilitate strategy for urban poor church planters in Addis Ababa, East Africa; Mumbai, India; and Manila, South East Asia. Typically, limited to 25-50 leaders for face to face story-telling from which we develop indigenous theology and strategy for urban poor ministry. (The regional processes lead to a major global gathering of urban poor mission leaders, Bangkok June 2004).

b. Small (6-12 people) consultative gatherings of prophetic voices in societal sectors (law, business, media) of LA to explore, refine and potentially publish the collective prophetic word of God to this city .

Project 3: Publications on Urban Poor Theology /Strategy and Urban Transformation

The prophetic heart of Urban Leadership has been over 50 publications on Urban Mission over the last years impacting global strategy and creating new theological paradigms.

1. English versions of Cry of the Urban Poor and Companion to the Poor continue to be published by MARC. These are MARC’s best sellers, and used by over a dozen seminary courses. They have been key to mobilizing hundreds. The Portuguese (Brazil), French(Africa), Spanish editions are out of print and require capitalization for republication (MAEC is contracting and books on the urban poor are not income generators for third world publishers). Distribution to poor pastors.
2. Transforming the Soul of a Nation, Creating an Auckland Business Theology etc. Development of action processes to move the church from renewal to societal transformation and ethnic reconciliation are central to the ULF prophetic role in the development of the national transformation networks in New Zealand.
3. Voices from the Edges – Initial collation and editing of prophetic voices in multiple societal sectors in Los Angeles is needed.

$30,000

Project 4: Alpha Christian Education Foundation, Manila: Elementary Building for a Manila Slum Church. The church has been partly funded by corn processing and marketing by the pastor and his wife and an expanding preschool. Their rented house provides the building for church and pre-school. To buy the house as a basis for expansion into an elementary school would provide a long-term stable base for the church and school. (Accountable Board: Alpha Christian Education Foundation; External Supervision: Metro Manila Ministries, and/or personal involvement)

$20,000

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