Developing Mission Movements

1. Developing Mission Movements Multiplying incarnational urban poor mission movements through the cross-pollination of workers?

2. As leaders of incarnational urban poor mission movements we have responsibilities to grow these movements • How can we grow a movement? • What will the movement look like? • What can we learn from mission history? • How will we find ways to fund these new movements? • What will the Church birthed by these movements look like?

3. How can we grow a movement? • We tell the stories of the poor and call people to mission to the poor • Leadership emerges from within a discipling community • Discipleship produces deacons and elders within the church • Mature leaders with ministry experience in the Church are be sent out as church planting incarnational missionaries

4. What will the movement look like? • Incarnational mission movements among the poor will be effective if they are; • - Team based, indigenous • - Relationally connected with the poor community • - A learning community/network • - Exploring economic breakthroughs for the • poor, where the poor form sustainable and • economically viable communities • - developing leadership growth in the community

5. What can we learn from mission history? • The NT Church, a commitment to the poor, widows and fatherless and a redistribution of wealth, from a strong dynamic community of believers • Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians; economic projects to bless the poor; the highly competitive ones did not succeed, but the creative ones were a winner • Economic development of the Church was a key to the mobilisation of people into church planting mission

6. Modalities and Sodalities • The Church (modality) based mission sending efforts have not been as productive as the focussed sending mission agencies (sodalities) • The sodalities have many forms; Focussed mission sending agencies, religious orders, economic communities of believers, Bible producing, radio and TV broadcasting, printing and publishing, networking organisations, service centers etc.

7. How will we find ways to fund these new movements? • From strong churches that are economically viable communities of the believers closely connected to the poor. • Planting churches among the poor that develop viable economic wealth sharing communities

8. What will the Church birthed by these movements look like? • They will be joy-filled communities of previously urban poor, who are now discipled believers who practice a lifestyle of wealth sharing • They will be a mission minded Churches following the Apostle Paul’s pattern of establishing a church in a the capital of a state and giving that church the responsibility to plant churches in the other cities of the state (e.g. Ephesus and its seven daughter churches, Smyrna was the urban poor church)

9. What are your ideas about the mission strategy of the urban poor church movement? • Can we develop a synergy of urban poor church planting movements through the Encarnacao Alliance? • Can we see this indigenous mission phase become a reality between now and 2010?