Urban Transformation Resources

by Viv Grigg

COMPANION TO THE POOR

A face to face encounter with the slums of Asia. This is the personal story of pioneering a new theology and new movement in the slums of Manila.
On entering Manila's slums, Viv Grigg knew what he wanted to do but not how to do it. The need was obvious - to establish a church among Asia's forgotten people, the impoverished dwellers of its vast cities. The challenge was to find a way that treated people's spiritual needs with their poverty, without becoming another economic project with no evangelistic component. This is the enthralling story of how the author solved this problem. But it is not Viv Grigg's story, but God's - it is God working in the urban slums, giving people a hope that affects all of life.
Also available in Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and German.    NZ$20.00 (US$13.00)

Cry of the Urban Poor

A sequel to Companion, this is a classic book of stories on the planting of churches in the slums of a dozen cities around the globe.

Also available in Portuguese.    NZ$20.00 (US$13.00)

Transforming Cities:

An Urban Leadership Manual

Models and patterns of city-wide leadership and strategy for evangelisation and transformation that have emerged from consultations of leaders in cities around the globe.    NZ$20.00 (US$15.00)

The Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City:

Transforming Revival Among Auckland's Evangelicals and Pentecostals

This book develops a theology and practice of "Transforming Revival" from an analysis of the rise and fall of the 1965-89 revival across the New Zealand churches. It creates a vision for conversation spaces about God-goals for Auckland, after the collapse of Pakeha culture into postmodernism. It is not a simple work , but deep level reflection to be read a few pages at a time, on the theology and practice of revival that leads to societal transformation, based on urban missiological analysis.

Transforming the Soul of the Nation

A call for a Kiwi-style Kingdom of God movement, a strategy for a transformational movement in each sector of society.     NZ$10.00 (US$5.00) Booklet 24pp

Transformational Conversations 1: Hermeneutic for the Post-Modern City

A new approach to doing theology for the cyber-junkie, the soccer club evangelist and the boardroom apostle. Transformational conversations link the conversation within the faith communities, and the city conversation moving from revival to transformation.     NZ$10.00 (US$5.00) Booklet 24pp

Transformational Conversations 2: Creating an Auckland Business Theology

Leading businesspeople tell their stories of meshing faith and business stress, success and failures. From this some theological themes emerge for new directions in the transformation of the business culture of Auckland.  New  NZ$15.00 (US$10.00) 80pp

The Lifestyle and Values of Servants

Servants are a network of incarnational missions and communities among the poor with commitments to non-destitute poverty and incarnation, obedience and devotion. These are the original commitments and central values that underly the various missions.     NZ$6.00 (US$5.00) Booklet 24pp

Towards a Strategy for Reaching the Urban Poor of the Third World's Great Cities

Presents the realities of the staggering growth in population of the third world's urban poor and challenge it poses for Christian mission.     NZ$6.00 (US$5.00) Booklet 24pp

Kingdom of God Series #3:

Biblical Reflections on Land and Land Rights

Driven by the pain of living among the landless, these reflections on Biblical themes provide a basis for discussing the ethics of land rights, a crucial issue for both squatters and New Zealand's Maori people.    NZ$10 (US$10) Booklet 32pp