Establishing a global cadre of educational practitioner-scholars - the MATUL Commission

Leadership development among the 1.4 billion urban poor

Integrating and publishing new fields: Urban poor church- planting; Theology of land rights; Economic discipleship...

Pioneering paradigms of city leadership

Artifacts in Forming the Academic Domain of Urban Poor Missiology

1. Lifestyle and Values of Servants

Lifestyle and Values of Servants.jpgA monograph that has become the foundational document for the culture and structure of several missions. It integrates the theology of the incarnation into values and practice for protestant incarnational missions...
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2. Companion to the Poor

Companion to the Poor.jpgThe story of years entering and pioneering the first church in Manila's slums is used as a basis for defining theological and praxis paradigms for urban poor churchplanting, and community transformation...

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3. The Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City

The Spirit of Christ and Postmodern CityBased on a case study of four years of developing of a city leadership team of Pentecostals and Evangelicals in Auckland, this book aims to map the progressions from a theology and praxis of revival to processes of transformation of a postmodern city...
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4. Transformational Conversations

Transformational ConversationsDevelopment of a paradigm for theological engagement with urban issues. Based on processes refined in over 30 city consultations with city leaders and urban poor workers, this is interfaced with a theory of "knowledge as webs" to generate a process that has been used by urban workers as a research paradigm...

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5. Economic Discipleship

KiwinomicsA field of knowledge of ten principles of Biblical Economics developed from 35 years work in the slums are applied to national economic issues in New Zealand in  a book, Kiwinomics; aplied to the slums in an economicdiscipleship.org site of podcasts for oral learners; multiplied through graduate sutdents to many churches...

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6. The MATUL Commission

The MATUL CommissionAt the center of the development of a new Domain of knowledge is the formation of the MATUL Commission, a committed global cadre of program directors in 8 schools, deans and faculty practitioner-experts....

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Discontinuity -> Action! -> Reflection -> Publishing ->Training -> Movements