Urban Leadership Foundation
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What Are We?

  • A virtual learning hub living out and creating new models of urban spirituality, values and theology from workers among the urban poor
  • A centre of relational and inspirational global networks who share those values
  • A mobile leadership centre for spiritual formation and strategic thinking for transformation of cities

Our Mission?

  • A prophetic voice to cities and nations
  • Creating urban theology, catalyzing, networking and training leaders of indigenous movements of churches among the poor of the world's mega-cities.
  • Current Mission: Mobilize and train 50,000 from the slums to the slums.

What Do We Do?

We develop leaders of movements among the urban poor through:
  • Publishing theology and best case practice
  • Story-telling gatherings of urban poor pastors
  • Developing the Encarnação Network of urban poor mission leaders
  • Developing the Network of Urban Poor Trainers with 40 modules through learning networks, the web and CDRoms
  • Establishing the MA in Transformational Urban Leadership and BA in churchplanting for urban poor leaders with partnering institutions in each continent.
We work with city leadership teams to envision God's purposes for cities through:
  • Consultations that seek God's purposes for cities.
  • Training city leadership teams
  • Publishing the prophetic and strategic envisioning
We catalyze revival that brings citywide transformation through:
  • The prophetic work of the Spirit, touching societal leaders with God's purposes
  • Spearheading the deep thinking of theory, theology and practice of citywide transformation

 
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