The document summarizes the genesis and work of the Encarnação Alliance, a relational network of urban poor movement leaders seeking to mobilize 50,000 cross-cultural workers for slum communities. It details the Alliance's training programs and partnerships with various mission organizations globally. Key activities include story-telling consultations, an MA program for movement leaders, and grassroots training reaching over 500 pastors annually in cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The overall goal is to catalyze indigenous movements in slums through synergistic collaboration.

1. The Genesis of the
Encarnação Alliance
of Urban Poor Movement Leaders
MATUL
Viv Grigg

2. His Purposes Begin in
Proclamation Among the Poor
The Spirit of the Lord
Is upon me
Because the Lord
Has anointed me
To preach good news
Among the poor
He has sent me
To proclaim freedom for the prisoners
And recovery of sight for the blind
To release the oppressed
To proclaim the year of jubilee
- Jesus call
Some of the first believers
in Tatalon, Manila

3. Manila, 74-85
New Zealand Servants base, 81-85
Kolkata, 83-94
Spanish
Servant-Partners, 85-87, 89, 92,00-02 Bangkok, 84
My own early years following the Holy Spirit, 1974-94
Intercession / Prophetic Catalyzing of Incarnational Works, Writing and
Mobilizing
Build like a master builder on Christ who is the foundation
Tamil, 06
Korean
Portuguese
Kairos, Sao Paulo, 87-89

4. Manila
Nairobi
Kolkata
Morada Sitio Shalom
Dhaka
Romania
Bangkok
Explosion of Other Incarnational Missions
Word Made Flesh
Lima
Mexico
Caracas
Innerchange
Urban Trek
Cairo Hong Kong
St Stephens Society
Church Missionary Society
Addis Ababa
We developed the Encarnacao Network to link these, and share training
Some of these form churches, others are prophetic, others do development
UNOH

5. Indigenous movements in the slums are multiplying far more rapidly in some cities.
In others there are still few churches, no movement.
Manila, 1500
Nairobi, 2000
Mexico, 1500 Addis Ababa, 6
Kolkata, 10
Phnom Phen, 3
Mumbai, 400
Sao Paulo, 10,000
Bangkok, 3
Chennai, 2000
Indigenous Movements in the Slums
What is God doing? They are now exploding

6. Genesis of the Encarnacao Network
 1989 Laussanne call for 50,000 cross-cultural slum workers
 Story-telling consultations across India, 1993-96
 Story-telling in Hong Kong, 1996
 Developed links, methodology
 Story-telling in Brazil 2002
 Incarnational missions, shared training processes
 Explored with seminaries and other groups
 Story-telling in Bangkok, 2004
 Brought in leaders of indigenous urban poor movements in
Asia, defined structure
 Developed Encarnacao Alliance Training Commission
 City Consultations
 in Addis, Nairobi, Hong Kong, Chennai, Mumbai,
Hyderabad, Kolkata, Delhi, Kampala, etc
 2006 Meeting in Chennai to expand Indian network
and draw in African cities, launch MA, expand
learning networks

7. The Encarnação Alliance Foci
1. Linking, Creating Synergies and
Partnerships among the Indigenous Urban
Poor Movements and Incarnational
Missions
2. Mobilizing 50,000 new workers
over the decade for the 1736 Least
Evangelised Cities
3. Training: Story-telling Training City by City
CD Training Material for any city
MA in Transformational Leadership for
Movement Leaders

8. Some Partners in the Encarnação Alliance
 Church Army Bible School, Nairobi (Kenya)
 Lilok(Manila), Foursquare(Manila)
 Servant-Partners (Bangkok)
 Praxis (Wellington)
 Oasis (Brazil)
 Kairos (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
 Servant Partners (US, International)
 Servants to Asia's Urban Poor (NZ, UK,Swiss,
International)
 Global Urban Trek (United States)
 Word Made Flesh (United States)
 InnerCHANGE (United States)
 Morada Sitio Shalom (Brazil)
 Urban Leadership Foundation (Auckland, New
Zealand)
 Deliverance Mission (Delhi, India)
 Life in Abundance (Addis Abba, Ethiopia)
 Connexions (Kolkata, India)
 ACT (Mumbai, India)
 St. Stephens Society (Hong Kong)
 Mission Ministries (Quezon City, Philippines)
 Love and Care Mission (Kampala, Uganda) etc.
Encarnação Alliance Leadership
 Viv Grigg, Coordinator, Viju Abraham, Chairman
 Arthur Thanggiah, Prayer Coordinator,
 Corrie de Boer, Training Commission Chairperson,
 Bryan Johnson, Training Coordinator
 Mobilisation, Heidi, _______
 Capacity Building – John Huffman
The Encarnação Alliance is a
relational network of leaders of
urban poor movements, who
seek synergies, partnerships
together with an overarching
dream of seeing 50,000 cross-
cultural workers from the slums
to the slums.
Several commissions are being
developed: training, capacity
building, publications,
grassroots churchplanting,
prayer, mobilization. These will
be redefined this week.
The Encarnação Alliance
Training Commission consists
of the leaders and trainers of
these organisations and
partnering academic institutions

9. Training Delivery
 Grassroots Slum Pastors Training
Last Year 500+ slum pastors in 6 cities
Most recently in Kampala, Uganda (75), and
Hyderabad, India(70), Nagaland, Nagpur,
Suva, Manila,
 e.g. Kolkata, 18 leaders in training, now 45
meeting every 3 months,

10. Slum Movement Leadership
 Creating an Alliance of Institutions
 Chennai (2007), Manila (2007), Auckland (2009), L.A.
(2008), (Latin America (next year)), Africa (2006),
Nagpur (2010)
 MA in Urban Leadership
 Live in/next to the slums
 Action-reflection
 First Urban Degree for Urban Poor Movement Leaders
 Reflection on movement leadership
 Enable leaders to move from 3 to 300 churches, into holism

11. Class Help Needed
 Web: Integrating Presentations into CD
 Editor: Typing up presentations of students
 Camera: Photo Stories
 Record Keeping
 Song Leader: Worship
 Athletics Trainer
 Library Organization
 Events Pont person