Name of School
Master of Arts in Transformational Urban Leadership (MATUL) Program

TUL530: Urban Poor Church Planting (3 units)
Urban Poor Church Leadership
Course Writer: Dr. Viv Grigg, Visiting Lecturer (Email: vivgrigg@yahoo.com)
Facilitators: Grace Nithya, Local Facilitator (Email: grace_nithya@yahoo.com)
Atty Raineer Chu, LLB, MA
Pr Mars Rodriguez

I. Course Description
The course introduces themes in the degree, utilising a story-telling theological approach. It develops the theme of the Kingdom of God as a basis for entering poor communities and developing holistic poor peoples' churches.  Entrance, proclamation, discipleship lead to practical processes of cell group, and structuring church development in theory and in practical work assignments. Development among the poor is introduced, through emergence of deacons and elders  and patterns of leadership inspired by  the Holy Spirit.

II. Course Rationale
The teaching component of his course will utilize a story-telling process of learning, building from the stories of lecturer, students, scripture and students to develop a theology and strategy for churchplanting  among semi-literate slum culture.  This entire course and resources are on CDRom. It will focus both on theory and design of practical outcomes.

This is parlleled or followed by ten weeks of practicum working as, or under, a churchplanter, with one day of integration of theory and praxis at the end of the course.

The course is the foundational course introducing themes in the degree. It develops the theme of the Kingdom of God as a basis for practical experiences in entering poor communities and developing holistic poor peoples' churches.  Entrance models from Jesus, Paul, Hiebert, Brewster are introduced. Churchplanting models from Hesselgrave, Stefan, Grigg develop elements of proclamation, power evangelism, mass evangelism, discipleship of the poor and lead to practical processes of cell group, fellowship and structured church development in theory and in practical work assignments. 

Church-based development among the poor is introduced, beginning with the development of deacons and elders, and patterns of leadership training based on the role of the Holy Spirit and the five leadership giftings. These are related back to sociological (Gerlach & Hine) and community organisation (Alinsky et al) models of leadership emergence.  The theology of the Kingdom of God is related to practical aspects of pastoral issues in ministering among the urban poor: cooperative economics, land rights, poverty, justice, oppression, suffering, cash flows, etc.

III. Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course each student will:

Cognitive (Head):  
•	Kingdom Theology: Have developed a theology for the many aspects of urban poor ministry based on the Kingdom of God which may include:
o	a definition of the Kingdom
o	its relationship to socio-economic-political-social discipleship
o	its relationship to growth of discipling movements and communities of faith
•	Churchplanting Processes: Understand the church where the student serves through an analysis of the Four Seasons of Growth and 80 step churchplanting process of churchplanting among the urban poor.
•	Holistic Church Growth: Understand how holistic interventions in slum schools, cooperatives, small business, ministering to AIDS/HIV and community development expand the Kingdom and relate to each of the Four Seasons of Growth.

Affective (Heart): 
•	Personal Healing: Where past experiences in urban poor ministry have caused emotional damage, some elements of healing within the context of the class dynamics will have been initiated.

Practice (Hands): 
•	Churchplanting Processes: Within six months have implemented action steps from the class that extend one area of expansion of a slum church. 
•	Coaching: Have developed a process of team building and coaching and know the content of each module on the topics chart.

Critical Measurable Outcomes
530- 1.	Kingdom Theology:  present a critical analysis of the relationship of the Kingdom of God to aspects of churchplanting 	
530- 2.	Churchplanting Processes: Critically analyze a practical ministry of discipling/church-planting and community development activities in which the person seeking credit is serving, as basis, within six months, to have implemented action steps that extend one area of expansion of a slum church. 	
530- 3.	Coaching: Develop and initiate a training plan for coaching a team that includes either grass roots church planters and/or deacons/deaconesses to achieve action outcomes.	

IV. Course Materials
Required Texts
Either Grigg, Viv, Companion to the Poor, London: Authentic, 2004, (on CD)
or Grigg, Viv  Cry of the Urban Poor, London: Authentic, 2004 . (on CD)
Glasser, Arthur, Charles van Engen & Gilliland, Dean. (2003). Announcing the Kingdom. 
	Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
Course readings on CD (1000 pages of articles).

Recommended Texts
Greenway, Roger, Discipling the City, 2nd ed, Baker, 1993, Chaps 1,7,8,12,13, 14,16,18.
Conn, Harvey, ed., Planting and Growing Urban Churches, Baker. 1997.
Carolina de Jesus, Diary of Carolina de Jesus, Mass Market, 1983.
Davey, Cyril, Saint in the Slums: Kagawa of Japan, Jersey City: Parkwest Publications, 2000 
	or Axling, William, Kagawa, SCM, 1932.
Jocano, F. L. (1975). Slum As a Way of Life. Manila: New Day Publishers, Box 167, Quezon 
	City 3008.
Hesselgrave, David J. (1987). Planting Churches Cross-culturally – a Guide for Home and 
	Foreign Missions, Baker, Grand Rapids.

V. Course Calendar

Topics selected from within the TOPICS table on the CDRom from 12 modules listed along the top. Choices depend on experience, stories and gifting of class.

 	Topic 	Readings	Activities	
TEACHING PHASE			
1	Expectations of the Course 
Introductions

 	Cry chap 1, 
Snyder, H. (1985). The Age of Jubilee. A Kingdom Manifesto: 68-76.
Myers, Bryant (1999) Walking with the Poor, New York, NY: Orbis Books, Maryknoll pp. 46-5`6	Activity 1: *Hand in report on Squatter Church Worship Service 
Activity 2: Personal Assessment & Develop Timeline	
2	Theory: Story of Churchplanting in the Slums	Cry Chap 1	 Activity 3: Develop a Story for Class	
3	Theology: The Kingdom of God			
4	Theology: Enter the Man of Peace!
Works of the Spirit of God	Cry , chaps 9,10,11	 	

5	The Four Seasons of Growth: Poor People's Ecclesiology	Discipling Structures for Squatter Churches
Cry chap 13
Cry chap 6,7
Browse Part 1 , Schwartz, Christian A. (2003). Natural Church Development. D-25924 Emmesbull, Germany: C & P Publishing.		
Optional
6	Theory: Sociological Analysis of Poverty in the Slums
Who are the poor of your city?
	Browse Child of the Dark, Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama
de Soto, H. (1989a). Informal Housing (J. Abbott, Trans.), The Other Path (pp. 17-57). New York: Harper & Row.
Jocano, F. L. (1975). Round-the-Clock Activities. Slum as a Way of Life. Quezon City, New Day Publishers: 33-50.	Activity 4: One analysis of who are the poor in the city.  Contribute it to the integrated report of the class.

	
7	Theology: Who are the Poor in the Scriptures? Biblical Reflections on Causes and Responses to Poverty	Companion chap 3	 	

8	Practice: 80 Steps in a Churchplant
Developing a Work Plan for Slum Evangelism	 	Activity 5: Develop work plan	
9	Practice: Developing a Work Plan for Each Season of Growth.
Discussion of Assignment 2	Hesselgrave, D. J. (1980). Planting Churches Cross-Culturally; A Guide for Home and Foreign Missions. The Believers Congregated. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Baker Books: 269-301.
Phillips, K. (1996). Out of Ashes. The Middle Years: Christian Nurture. Los Angeles, World Impact Press: 87-94.	Activity 6: Pass in topic for major paper
Activity 7: Develop work plan for teaching at each season with topic and main scripture	
10	Theory: The Nature of the Church in the Culture of Poverty
Anthropology of Squatter Churches
	Cry 15, 16.
Lewis, Oscar (1966). "The Culture of Poverty." Scientific American, 215(4), 3-9.	 	
11	Theologies of Incarnation	Prior to Class read The Story of Zachery Baumkletterer
Browse the Incarnation case studies on the CD	Activity 8: Rewrite with your spouse your version of the Lifestyles and Values of Servants (do 3 sections that are most useful  for you)	
12	Practice of Incarnation
Practical Issues in Incarnation
	Brewster (1982). Bonding and the Missionary Task. Pasadena, CA, Lingua House.	 	

13	Theology: The Poor and Poverty
•	In the Message of Jesus
•	In the Church of 1st Century	Browse Julio de Santa Ana, Good News for the Poor	 	
Optional 14	Relationship of Churchplanting to Marginalised
Practice: Intro to reaching Gangs, Drug Addicts and Prostitutes in the Slum Church
12 Steps
Intro to Reaching  Street Children 	Eding, G. F. (1988). Drug Addiction and Prostitution, Urban Ministry in Asia (Vol. 198-207): Asia Theological Association
Patricia Green, Impact of Sexual Exploitation on Children. In Kilbourn & McDermid, Sexually Exploited Children	Activity 9: Pass in reading log after first 3 weeks and again 1 week before end of course
Activity 10: Pray through the twelve steps with your husband or wife concerning sin in your own life. 	
15	Theory: Pastoring the Poor	Cry 14
	 	
17	Theology: Nine Principles of Kingdom Economics	Snyder, H. (1985). The Age of Jubilee. A Kingdom Manifesto: 68-76.	Pass in topic for Activity 7  with headings, and intro paragraph	

18	Practice: Developing a Work Plan III: Teaching Content	Phillips, K. (1996). The Middle Years: Christian Nurture. Out of Ashes.  Los Angeles, World Impact Press: 87-94.	 	
19	Pracitce: Pioneer Pastoring	Cry chap 14
Hesselgrave, D. J. (1980). Planting Churches Cross-Culturally; 
A Guide for Home and Foreign Missions. The Believers Congregated. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Baker Books: 269-301.	Activity 11: In preparation for Friday exam, write up an outline of a strategy for churchplanting in the slums
	
20	Theory: Diaconal Growth: Dealing with Poverty
Practice: Cash Flows in an Urban Poor Churchplant	Browse William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out	Pass in reading log
 	
Optional 21 (in Community Economic Course)	When You Have No Money: Cooperative Economics: Implications for Slum Churches
 
	Read Kagawa, Toyohiko, Brotherhood Economics
Read Companion chap 6
Creating Jobs, New Businesses Offer Hope for Poor Families, paper by Kenneth MacHarg	Activity 12: Setting the Economic Captives Free: Survey of Economic Production of Congregation and Community	
22	The Role of the Rich Church in Dealing with Poverty
Sahaara Video: Holistic Churchplanting in Mumbai	Cry 21	Activity 13: 1 Page outline of steps you can take to bring a rich church in contact with the poor.	
23	Practice: Leadership for Multiplying Movements	Cry chap 17,18,19
Breen, Mike, (2002). Fivefold Ministries. In The Apostle's Notebook. Eastbourne, England.
Garrison, D. (2004). What Does the Bible Say? Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World. Midlothian, VA, WIGTake Resources: 199-219.	Activity 14: go through Breen's gift analysis	

24	Theologies of Community Development
Church-Based Community Development 
Practice. Class Presentations 1	Companion chap 9,10
Cry chap 20	 	
25	Theology of Justice	Browse Paulo Friere,  (1986). Pedagogy of the Oppressed (M. B. Ramos, Trans.). New York: Continuum.
or Browse Hanks, Thomas. (1984). Basic Old Testament Vocabulary of Oppression. God So Loved the Third World. Maryknoll, Orbis Books.	 	
26	Practice: Development of a Plan for training a team. Discussion of Assignment 3.	 	Activity 15: Identify 5-8 people to train.	
27	Practice: Development of Leaders Based on Spiritual Gifting	Cry 18	 	
28	Theologies of Suffering	Browse Elsa Tamez Bible of the Oppressed	 	
29	Church & Land Rights Struggles	Grigg, Viv, 2006, Biblical Reflection on Land and Land Rights, Auckland, Urban Leadership Foundation.
Companion chapter 11	 	
30	Final Exam	 	 
	
31	Integration/Evaluation/Prayer	 	Activity 16: Evaluation discussion and fill in evaluation form
Activity 17: 6 month evaluation of course	
PRAXIS PHASE

VI. Learning and Assessment Activities

NUMBER	ASSESSMENT TASK	MAXIMUM MARK	WEIGHT-ING	
TUL530-1	 Kingdom Theology
 
1.1 Clearly present an analysis of the relationship of the Kingdom of God to aspects of churchplanting through diagrams and explanations that include evidence of mastery of the readings in a 2500 word outline covering one or all of the following:
•	Kingdom and church
•	Kingdom and social issues such as AIDS, slum education
•	Kingdom and economic issues such as small business, cash flows
•	Kingdom and issues of justice such as land rights, oppression, responding to violence
1.2 In a one hour exam setting give evidence of mastery of readings and the lectures in a diagram and explanation of the theme of the Kingdom of God as it relates to practical phases of growth of an urban poor discipling movement.
1.3 Provide a reading log of 800 pages from the required and recommended readings.	100 made up of

60

20

20	30%	
TUL530-2	 Churchplanting Processes
2.1 Analyze a practical ministry of discipling/church-planting and/or community development activities in which you are serving, using written or oral (audio tape recorded) or video or Power Point presentations. This to include:
•	mission goals and objectives
•	identification of the community contextual factors
•	core values
•	a biblical understanding and practical strategies for each season of growth
•	existing and their preferred leadership style at each season of growth
•	a work plan at each season of growth of the movement
•	existing or viable future community development ideas, that meet social, economic and justice needs at each season of growth
•	church governance understanding for each season of growth
2.2 Implement action steps that extend one area of expansion of a slum church.  Evaluated in a written 2 page project report.	100 made up of

5
5
5
20

10

20

5

5

35
	40%	
TUL530-3	 Developed and initiated a training plan for a team that includes grass roots church planters and/or deacons/deaconesses, summarised in a 2500 word report
3.1.    Identified 4-8 trainees. Analyzed the trainees suitability for entry into a developing a community of disciples within an urban poor community.
3.2.   Developed with the team an initial plan for each season of growth and identified roles for the team.  
3.3.   Developed an initial pattern of stories for teaching at each season of growth.
3.4.    Evidence familiarity with the manual, the two books on churchplanting among the poor, the Church planting CD (for those with computers) and where to access resources. 	100 made up of

5
40
40
15	30%	

VII. Selected Bibliography 
Slum Realities
de Jesus, C. (1983). Diary of Carolina de Jesus: Mass Market Publishers.
Jocano, F. L. (1975). Slum As a Way of Life. Manila: New Day Publishers, Box 167, Quezon 
	City 3008.
Lewis, O. (1966). "The Culture of Poverty." Scientific American, 215(4), 3-9.
 
Theology of Poverty
Cherupallikat, J. O. F. M. C. (1975). Witness Potential of Evangelical Poverty In India: 
	Nouvelle Review de Science Missionaire, CH-6405 Immensee, Switzerland.
Hanks, T. (1983). God So Loved the Third World: The Biblical Vocabulary of Oppression. 
	Maryknoll: Orbis.
Gutierrez, G. (1983). The Power of the Poor in History. New York: Orbis Books and 
	London: SCM Press

Holistic Discipling Movements and Incarnational Churchplanting
Booth, W. (1890). In Darkest England and the Way Out. London: Salvation Army.
Bradbury, N. (1989). City of God? Pastoral Care in the Inner City. London: SPCK.
Craig, J. (c1996). Servants Among the Poor. Manila: OMF Publishers.
Davey, C. (2000). Saint in the Slums: Kagawa of Japan. Jersey City: Parkwest Publications.
Goudge, E. (1959). Saint Francis of Assisi: Hodder and Stoughton.
Grigg, V. (1986). SERVANTS: A Protestant Missionary Order With Vows of Simplicity and 
	Non-Destitute Poverty. Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation.
Grigg, V. (1987). Sorry, the Frontier Moved! In H. Conn (Ed.), Planting and Growing Urban Churches: From Dream to Reality. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.
Grigg, V. (1989). Squatters: The Most Responsive Unreached Bloc. Urban Mission, Volume 
	6( Number 5, May 1989).
Grigg, V. (1990(84)). Companion to the Poor. Monrovia, CA: MARC.
Grigg, V. (1992a). Church of the Poor. In R. Greenway (Ed.), Discipling the City: A Comprehensive Approach to Urban Mission (pp. 159-170). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker.
Grigg, V. (1992b). Cry of the Urban Poor. Monrovia, CA: MARC.
Hembree, R. (1979). The Mark Buntain Story. Minneapolis: Bethany House publishers.
Livingstone, Greg. (1993). Planting Churches in Muslim Cities, Baker, Grand Rapids.
Van Engen, Charles, & Tiersma, Jude. (1994). God so Loves the City – Seeking a Theology 
	for Urban Mission, MARC, Monrovia.
Mavrodes, G. (1976). The Salvation of Zachary Baumkletterer. The Other Side(Feb 1976).
Philipps, Keith. (1996). Out of the Ashes, World Impact, Los Angeles.
Pullinger, J. (1980). Chasing the Dragon. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Simson, Wolfgang. Houses that Change the World. Carlisle: OM Publishing, 2001.
Snyder, Howard. Liberating the Church. Downers Grove: IVP, 1983.
Sheppard, D. (1984). Bias to tbe Poor. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Wilkerson, D. (1962). The Cross and The Switchblade: Pyramid Books.

Poverty & Urban Poor Ministry in the West
Cave, Dave. (1985). Jesus is Your Best Mate says Dave Cave – Evangelism in the City and 
	Council Estate Cultures, Marshalls, Basingstoke.
Harrington, M. (1964). The Other America: Poverty in the United States. NY: MacMillan.
Kenrick, B. (1965). Come Out the Wilderness. London: Fontana.
Lupton, R. (1993). Return Flight: Community Development Through Reneighboring Our 
Cities: FCS Urban Ministries Inc, 750 Glenwood Ave, SE, P.O. Box 17628, Atlanta, GA 30316, USA.
Magnuson, N. (1977). Salvation in the Slums: Evangelical Social Work 1865-1920. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
Perkins, J. (1982). With Justice for All. Ventura: Regal Books.
Perkins, J. (1995). Restoring at Risk Communities: CCDA,1909 Robinson Road, Jackson, MS 
	39209, USA.

Course Calendar

The above topics can be laid out as 12 Modules to cover over three years – this weeks training will touch on many of these.  Each topic involves theology and action.

1.Introduction

	Trainers
Overview	2.Urban Spirituality	3.Theological Framework
 	4.The Slum Context	5.Entrance & Evangelism	6.Discipleship & Pastoring	7.Church Growth	8.Leadership	9.Community Trans-formation	10. Advocacy	11. Mission Strategy & 12. Finale	
Developing a Poor Peoples' Church	Personal Evaluation	Spirituality for Survival in the Slums	The Kingdom of God 	Global movements in slums of mega-cities	Incarnation	Discipling Movements	Four Seasons of Growth	Developing Leadership Gifts & Eldership 	Diaconal Development	Community Organisation	Apostolic Urban Poor Mission structures	
 Introductions
 
	Global Movements in the Slums	 The Spirit, Evangelism, and Justice 	The Kingdom and the Poor 	Causes of Slum Poverty	Styles of Evangelism in the Slums	Working with Non-literate people	Pastoral Care	Training of Urban Poor Pastors	 Preventive Health as a means of evangelism	Theology of land rights	Integration of  Lessons learned	
Who are the poor of ... 	How to Develop a Training Process	Prayer & Fasting	Contextual Theology & Story-telling Theologies	Squatter Culture and the Church	Finding the Needs:
Entrance Points	Discipling Street Children	 Financial Accounting & Budgets	Team Building	Education – vehicle for church-planting	HIV & AIDS Care	 Time of Intercession	
A Theology of  Churchplanting 		Slum Church Worship	Kingdom Economics in OT & NT	Squatter Economics	Power Encounters	Ministering to HIV/Aids victims	Cash Flows of urban poor churches	Family Survival in the Slums	Intro to Micro- Enterprise	Connecting Rich and Poor Churches	 A Vision for the Future – the Poor Wise Man	
			Suffering  		Reaching Gangs & Prostitutes	Developing a Work Plan	 
 	Leadership for Multiplying Churches	Project Design & Event Management	Kingdom & Justice	Exam & Diploma Giving