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Developing Mission Movements

• Multiplying incarnational urban poor mission
  movements through the cross-pollination of
  workers?

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As leaders of incarnational urban poor mission
movements we have responsibilities to grow these
movements

• How can we grow a movement?
• What will the movement look like?
• What can we learn from mission history?
• How will we find ways to fund these new
  movements?
• What will the Church birthed by these movements
  look like?

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How can we grow a movement?

• We tell the stories of the poor and call people
  to mission to the poor
• Leadership emerges from within a discipling
  community
• Discipleship produces deacons and elders within
  the church
• Mature leaders with ministry experience in the
  Church are be sent out as church planting
  incarnational missionaries

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What will the movement look like?

• Incarnational mission movements among the poor
  will be effective if they are
• - Team based, indigenous
• - Relationally connected with the poor community
• - A learning community/network
• - Exploring economic breakthroughs for the
• poor, where the poor form sustainable and
• economically viable communities
• - developing leadership growth in the community

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What can we learn from mission history?

• The NT Church, a commitment to the poor, widows
  and fatherless and a redistribution of wealth,
  from a strong dynamic community of believers
• Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians economic
  projects to bless the poor the highly
  competitive ones did not succeed, but the
  creative ones were a winner
• Economic development of the Church was a key to
  the mobilisation of people into church planting
  mission

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Modalities and Sodalities

• The Church (modality) based mission sending
  efforts have not been as productive as the
  focussed sending mission agencies (sodalities)
• The sodalities have many forms
• Focussed mission sending agencies, religious
  orders, economic communities of believers, Bible
  producing, radio and TV broadcasting, printing
  and publishing, networking organisations, service
  centers etc.

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How will we find ways to fund these new movements?

• From strong churches that are economically viable
  communities of the believers closely connected to
  the poor.
• Planting churches among the poor that develop
  viable economic wealth sharing communities

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What will the Church birthed by these movements
look like?

• They will be joy-filled communities of previously
  urban poor, who are now discipled believers who
  practice a lifestyle of wealth sharing
• They will be a mission minded Churches following
  the Apostle Pauls pattern of establishing a
  church in a the capital of a state and giving
  that church the responsibility to plant churches
  in the other cities of the state (e.g. Ephesus
  and its seven daughter churches, Smyrna was the
  urban poor church)

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What are your ideas about the mission strategy of
the urban poor church movement?

• Can we develop a synergy of urban poor church
  planting movements through the Encarnacao
  Alliance?
• Can we see this indigenous mission phase become a
  reality between now and 2010?