From the GCOWE Conference, a network of urban poor practicioners developed. 100 of these met in Hong Kong in 1996 to tell stories and develope grass roots theology about work among eh poor, looking at strategic issues in tersm of the urban poor in the least evangelized cities. . These included workers in slums, among street children, prostitutes, aids victims, and drug addicts. At the South African Congress in 1997, four hundred will meet together representing this network. Out of these consultations processes have emerged whereby people have confidence in transferring workers from one ministry to another across continents and a desire to penetrate new centres.