Strategy
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Urban Leadership Strategy

1. International: Urban Leadership / Cities Partnerships

City Fathering and Strategy Consultations:

  • Generate in-city leadership processes through in-city and inter-city strategy consultations (ongoing).
  • Utilise web training to train city leaders
  • Mentor related existing City Leaders through bimonthly email Urban Transformation Conversations (ongoing).
  • Global Urban Research Consortium: Locate partners to expand the research consortium on the web, connecting two page profiles of cities and stories of grass-roots models of urban poor ministry (on hold till the research community takes cities on board).

2. International: Expand Existing Urban Poor Missions Models

Urban Poor Ministry Training:

  • Teach yearly seminary courses on Church-planting Among the Urban Poor, Theology of Urban Poor Ministry, Global Issues, Citywide Leadership Strategies, and Postmodern Church as Societal Change Agent etc. (ongoing).
  • Through the Encarnação Training Commission, explore with various seminaries and universities the development of an Urban Leadership MA (2001-6).  Find long-term partnerships with urban missions schools from which to base (2003-10), one per year, ten by 2010.
  • Develop these as accredited CDRom and VCD programs useful for pastors in the slums (2003-9).
  • Develop the grassroots training  for urban poor churchplanters (2004-8).

Mobilise 50,000 workers in the slums :

  • Develop the leadership team of the Encarnação Urban Poor Leaders Network (2002-2010)
  • Develop The Training Commission, The Mobilisation Commission, Prayer Commission, Organisational Resourcing Commission(2005-10)
  • Lead consultations and training weeks in 5 cities per year.

Sustain Linkage to Existing Movements (1985 ongoing):

  • Continue to advise and influence Servants to Asia's Urban Poor.
  • Continue to relate to the U.S. Servant-Partners, leadership, particularly in areas of training
  • Facilitate Brazilian missionaries into Asia from Kairos, raising funding where possible
  • New Zealand - Kolkata Linkage: Sustain the momentum in the intercession for Bengali people, continuing to place a long-term team each two years through various missions structures.

3. Modelling City Leadership at Local Levels

  • Develop a Prophetic Voice into Auckland (1996-2000)
  • An Ethnic Indian migrant fellowship was pioneered 1995-6
  • The Vision for Auckland Network was developed over four years, and leadership transferred to others(1996-2000)
  • Research Transformative Revival in the City and publish on Transformative Revival and a Vision for Auckland(1996-2006)
  • Develop transformation leadership cadre for city and nation (2006-2010).

4. Rebuild the Resource Base

  • Expand the New Zealand resource base with ongoing prophetic, strategic and visionary involvement with national and Auckland city leadership teams.
  • Publish book on Transformative Revival
  • Multiply city by city seminars
  • CD and web-based courses on Transformative Revival in New Zealand (2005-9).
  • Incrementally increase access to N.Z. and U.S. trusts (2002-10) (add 2 per year) for ten year expansion of the work, particularly funding of field-based courses, ongoing consultations,  integration of the prophetic message for New Zealand and other cities.
  • Work with each staff to raise support from churches and believers.