Global Training Infrastructure in Urban Leadership Encarnação Learning Network

1. Communal ideas(?) collated by Viv Grigg, Urban Leadership Foundation Ver 7, post India, post Addis, post Nairobi, post Brazil consults Mar 2003, post Bangkok, post 10 cities grassroots The following ideas all open for debate, discussion, input.. Not to be reproduced for others, except by permission * Apostolic does not mean some title but servant, sacrificial living out the gospel among the poor and lost, establishing the Kingdom of God Proposal OverviewThe following slide show takes 5 minutes.Click on slide show/view slide show. You can scroll to move faster. Probably easier to print it out. 1. Proposed Goals 7. Partnership Issues 2. Perceived Need 8. Proposed Schedule Global Training Infrastructure in Urban Leadership Encarnação Learning Network Connecting experienced practitioner trainers globally in both grassroots urban poor apostolic* training and graduate training of urban poor movement leaders and citywide leadership. Vers 7, May 2006 3. Existing Training Processes 9. Major Emphases 4. Partners/ Resources 10. GrassRoots Course Proposal 5. Options Analysis 11. Graduate Course Proposals 6. Technology 12. Resourcing

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6. 2. Perceived Need • 1. Perceived Need For New Training Processes • Capacity-building: many workers need paced up-skilling at levels beyond what we are doing • Healing: Workers need academic reflection to process the horrific nature of issues they face • Existing seminaries are unable to provide the style and content of training that we are delivering • The output profiles from existing seminaries is far from the nature of urban poor workers we are producing • 2. Perceived Need For Collaboration as a Network on Training • As missions with experience we need to design what we collectively want and market it to an academic institution for a partnership • Occasionally our attempts to get courses from extant institutions have been successful but inadequate responses • - they control processes • - they are based on systematic theological paradigms rather than urban story-based paradigms • We have most of the building blocs between us • We have enough qualified faculty between us in terms of our criteria of proven experience • We have sufficient personnel wanting to be trained to almost make it viable

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13. 9. Major Emphases/ Tracks

15. Community Transformation Diaconal Development Preventive Health as a means of evangelism Education – as a vehicle for church-planting HIV & AIDS Care Intro to Micro- Enterprise Project Design & Event Management how to budget, fund raise, how to structure and plan income generating projects, small business management, Advocacy Community Organisation Theology of land rights Connecting Rich and Poor Churches Kingdom & Justice Mission Strategy Apostolic Urban Poor Mission structures Revival and the movements of God’s Spirit among the poor Final Integration Integration of Lessons learned Time of Intercession A Vision for the Future – the Poor Wise Man (Exam) Giving of Diplomas Introduction Developing a Poor Peoples' Church Introductions Who are the poor of ... Personal evaluation profiles of urban poor church planters, Theological Framework The Kingdom of God The Kingdom and the Poor Contextual Theology & Story-telling Theologies Kingdom Economics in OT & NT Spiritual Formation Spirituality for Survival in the Slums A Theology of Churchplanting Suffering Prayer and fasting for spiritual breakthrough The Slum Context Global movements in slums of mega-cities Causes of Slum Poverty Squatter Culture and the Church Squatter Economics 11. Topics in Grassroots Training Of Slum Pastors Entrance & Evangelism Incarnation Styles of Evangelism in the Slums Finding the Needs:Entrance Points The Spirit, Evangelism, and Justice Power Encounters Reaching Gangs & Prostitutes Discipleship & Pastoring Discipling Movements Training the illiterate through story-telling and drama Discipling Street Children Ministering to HIV/Aids victims Developing a Work Plan Church Growth Four Seasons of Growth Pastoral Care Cash Flows of urban poor churches Slum Church Worship Leadership Developing Leadership Gifts & Eldership (Eph 4:11,12) Training of Urban Poor Pastors Team Building Family Survival in the Slums Leadership for Multiplying Churches

16. Urban Leadership Foundation • Instructions: • Delete sample document icon and replace with working document icons as follows: • Create document in Word. • Return to PowerPoint. • From Insert Menu, select Object… • Click “Create from File” • Locate File name in “File” box • Make sure “Display as Icon” is checked. • Click OK • Select icon • From Slide Show Menu, Select Action Settings. • Click “Object Action” and select “Edit” • Click OK 12. Resourcing • External Grant Funding Needed • Funding for experimentation phase: travel, initial CD/ video production equipment, consultations, design time. • Funding for the equipment setup for production • Ongoing funding for trainers travel and scholarships • Funding for facilitators gatherings at locations in Brazil, Chiang Mai and LA? • Program Revenue Generation from Students –ideas suggested • Cost to be set with differentials in proportion to the income level of each country (rich, middle, poor) and level of student within the social class of that country (upper, middle, poor)? • Requires cohorts of 25 people, 12 of whom pay rich country fees, initial cohort of 15. • Email, web equipment needed by participants • Involvement of parallel MBA “rich” students in aspects of the course to generate funding? • Projections as to Numbers of Students • Quantifiable Outcomes per $ • $11.59 per new believer