DEVELOPING URBAN POOR DISCIPLING MOVEMENTS

READINGS

Developing a Reading Strategy

References to readings developed for the Urban Trek

Note: Copyright These readings and this disk may be utilised freely in third world settings.  They are copyright in first world settings, so may not be reproduced except within copyright law.  Permission and costs to reproduce this disk in first world settings may be obtained from Urban Leadership Foundation.

COMPANION TO THE POOR

1. CITY OF CONTRASTS
2. NEVER THE SAME AGAIN
3. GOD'S HAPPY POOR
4. LIVING AS A POOR MAN
5. PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
6. TO HAVE OR NOT TO HAVE
7. POINT OF ATTACK
8. NEW MINISTRY, NEW POWER
9. BREAKING THE POVERTY CYCLE
10. AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?
11. WITH  JUSTICE FOR ALL
12. WHOM SHALL I SEND

CRY OF THE URBAN POOR

1. THE FRONTIER HAS MOVED
2. THE CITY BECKONS
3. THE MIGRANT POOR: WHO ARE WE?
4. WHO MADE US POOR
5. INTERNATIONAL CAUSES OF URBAN POVERTY
6. WHERE ARE THE CHURCHES OF THE POOR?
7. FROM LATIN GROWTH TO ASIAN NEEDS
8. PILGRIMAGE AMONG THE POOR
9. ENTER! THE MAN OF PEACE
10. PATTERNS OF PROCLAMATION
11. WORKS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD
12. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY FOR POOR PEOPLE'S CHURCHES
13. GROUP STRUCTURES FOR SQUATTER CHURCHES
14. PASTORING THE POOR
15. AN INSIDE PERSPECTIVE ON SQUATTER CHURCHES
16. SQUATTER CULTURE AND THE CHURCH
17. FROM CHURCHES TO MOVEMENTS
18. LEADERSHIP FOR MULTIPLYING MOVEMENTS
19. DEVELOPING CHURCH PLANTING TEAMS
20. HELP! HELP! I'M DYING
21. THE ROLE OF THE AFFLUENT CHURCH
22. FINALE

---

ADDITIONAL READINGS (MAY NOT BE ON THIS DISK)

SAMPLE STUDENT PAPERS
   TRAINING A NEW GENERATION - SCOTT YETTER
   KINGDOM BUILDING - LEUGENIA JENKINS
   COOPERATIVES: A BIBLICAL AND PRACTICAL RESPONSE TO POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES                                                                                                     - LEMUEL MAG-ASO
   PARTS OF A PAPER ON A STRATEGY FOR CHURCHPLANTING  - JEWEL INDICO

VIDEOS (MAY NOT WORK ON WEB)

PRESCHOOL EDUCATION AND CHURCHPLANTING IN MANILA (on separate CD)

HOLISTIC CHURCHPLANTING IN MUMBAI (on separate CD)

---

ADDITIONAL READINGS IN THE NOTES

Bessenecker, Scott, (2004) The New Friars: Evangelical Youth Living Among the Poor, unpublished

Breen, M. (2002). Fivefold Ministries. In The Apostle's Notebook. Eastbourne, England.

Brewster, E. T. B. E. S. (1982). Bonding and the Missionary Task. Pasadena, CA, Lingua House.

Craig, J. M. (1997).  Light, Water and a Basketball Court. Servants Among the Poor. Wellington, SERVANTS to Asia's Urban Poor: 124-146.

Davey, C. J. (1960). Kagawa of Japan. 'Across the Death-Line'. London, Camelot Press: 56-69.

Foster, G. (1998). HIV and AIDS: Orphans and Sexual Vulnerability. Sexually Exploited Children; Working to Protect and Heal. P. K. M. McDermid. Monrovia, CA, MARC: 216-232.

Garrison, D. (2004). What Does the Bible Say? Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World. Midlothian, VA, WIGTake Resources: 199-219.

Eding, G. F. (1988). Drug Addiction and Prostitution, Urban Ministry in Asia (Vol. 198-207): Asia Theological Association

Grigg, V. (1984). The Lifestyle and Value System of SERVANTS. Auckland, New Zealand, Urban Leadership Foundation.

Grigg, V. (1992) Church of the Poor. Discipling the City, Roger Greenway, ed.

Grigg, V. (2004). Companion to the Poor. GA, USA, Authentic Media in partnership with World Vision.

Grigg, V. (2005). Cry of the Urban Poor. GA, USA, Authentic Media in partnership with World Vision.

Grigg, V. Of Barefoot Dentists ... And Rich Young Rulers

Grigg, V. The Poor Wise Man of Calcutta

Hanks, T. (1984). Basic Old Testament Vocabulary of Oppression. God So Loved the Third World. Maryknoll, Orbis Books.

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.

Jenkins, L. (2003). Kingdom Building In a Diversified Urban Community. Nyack, New York, Alliance Theological Seminary.

Jocano, F. L. (1975). Round-the-Clock Activities. Slum as a Way of Life. Quezon City, New Day Publishers: 33-50.

Myers, Bryant (1999) Walking with the Poor, New York, NY: Orbis Books, Maryknoll pp. 46-56

Miller, R. "Building Homes and Hopes in a Brazilian Slum."

Phillips, K. (1996). Out of Ashes. The Middle Years: Christian Nurture. Los Angeles, World Impact Press: 87-94.

Snyder, Howard. (1985). The Age of Jubilee. A Kingdom Manifesto: 67-76

Van Engen, Charles (1996). Mission on the Way; Issues in Mission Theology. Introduction; What is Mission Theology? Grand Rapids, Michigan, Baker Books: 17-31.

Wilson, L. (1997). "Virtues of a Woman." World Vision April-May.

 

 

References: Publisher Permission Spreadsheet

Publisher Permission: Sample Letter

---

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (NOT INCLUDED ON DISC)

Viv Grigg, updated Jan 04

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.
Lloyd, P. (1979). Slums of Hope? Shanty Towns in the Third World. Hammondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin.
Mangin, W. (l967). Squatter Settlements. Scientific American, 217( No. 4, October 1967), 2l-29.
Mangin, W. (Ed.). (1970). Peasants in Cities: Readings in Anthropology of Urbanization. Boston: Houghton Mifflen.
Mar, M. (1966). Las Barriadas de Lima, 1957. Lima: IEP Ediciones.
West, M. (1961). Children of the Sun: The Slum Dwellers of Naples: Pan Books.

 Theology of Poverty

Boerma, C. (1979). The Rich, the Poor - and the Bible. Philadelphia: Westminster.

Boff, L. (1988). When Theology Listens to the Poor. Maryknoll: Orbis and London: Harper and Row.

Boff, L., & Elizondo, V. (Eds.). (1985). The People of God Amidst the Poor (Vol. 176). Glen Rock, NJ: Concilium.

Cherupallikat, J. O. F. M. C. (1975). Witness Potential of Evangelical Poverty In India: Nouvelle Review de Science Missionaire, CH-6405 Immensee, Switzerland.

Clouse, R. G. (Ed.). (1984). Wealth and Poverty: Four Opposing Evangelical American Perspectives. Downers Grove, IL: IVP.

Cone, J. H. (1975). God of the Oppressed. New York: Seabury.

de Santa Ana, J. (1977). Good News to the Poor. Geneva: WCC.

de Santa Ana, J. (1982). Towards a Church of the Poor. Geneva: WCC.

Dorr, D. (1983). Option for the Poor: A Hundred Years of Vatican Social Teaching. Orbis.

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

Meeks, D. (Ed.). (1994). The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition: Oxford Institute on Methodist Theological Studies.

Miranda, J. P. (1974). Marx and the Bible: A Critique of the Philosophy of Oppression. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Sider, R. (1990). Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Sine, T. (1999). Mustard Seed Versus McWorld: Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future. Grand Rapids: MI: Baker Books.

Sobrino, J. (1984). The True Church and the Poor. Maryknoll: Orbis.

Holistic 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.

Fenske, R. P. (1998). En La Buena Lucha (In the Good Struggle): The Sister Parish Movement: White Mane Publishers.

Goudge, E. (1959). Saint Francis of Assisi: Hodder and Stoughton.

Grigg, V. (1986a). SERVANTS: A Protestant Missionary Order With Vows of Simplicity and Non-Destitute Poverty. Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation.

Grigg, V. (1987a). 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.

Houghton, G., & Sargunam, E. (1982). Church Planting Among the Urban Poor (With focus on Madras and Bombay). Asia Pulse, Evangelical Missions Information Service,, 15(No. 2, May l982).

John Perkins. (1996). Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It  Right.

Kenrick, B. (1965). Come Out the Wilderness. London: Fontana.

Lausanne Occasional Papers. (1980). Christian Witness to the Urban Poor #22, : Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, PO Box 1100, Wheaton, Illinois 60187, USA.

Mavrodes, G. (1976). The Salvation of Zachary Baumkletterer. The Other Side(Feb 1976).

Nicholls, B. J., & Wood, B. (Eds.). (1996). Sharing Good News With the Poor: World Evangelical Fellowship.

Perrin, H. (1964). Priest and Worker: The Autobiography of Henri Perrin (B. Wall, Trans.). New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.

Pullinger, J. (1980). Chasing the Dragon. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Sheppard, D. (1984). Bias to tbe Poor. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Sherman, A. L. (1997). Restorers of Hope: Reaching the Poor in Your Community with Church-Based Ministries that Work. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.

West, M. (1961). Children of the Sun: The Slum Dwellers of Naples: Pan Books.

Wilkerson, D. (1962). The Cross and The Switchblade: Pyramid Books.

Housing, Land and Land Rights

Brueggeman, W. (1977). The Land. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Building Together Association. (1984). Seminar Report on: The Right to Stay: The Poor, the Land and the Law in Asian Cities. Bangkok: Centre for Housing, National Housing Authority,.

Davies, W. (1974). The Gospel and the Land. Berkeley: University of California Press.

de Soto, H. (1989a). Informal Housing (J. Abbott, Trans.), The Other Path (pp. 17-57). New York: Harper & Row.

Fuller, M. (1994). The Theology of the Hammer. Habitat for Humanity.

Grigg, V. (1998). Biblical Reflections on Land and Land Rights. Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation.

Siddiqui, M. K. A. (1984). The Slums of Calcutta: A Problem and its Solution, Calcutta Slums: Problems and Solutions. 5 Russell Street, Calcutta 700071, 47-63: CASA

Pornchokchai. (1985). 1020 Bangkok Slums. 685/56 Jaransanitwong 68, Bangplad, Bangkok Noi, Bangkok 10700 Thailand: School of Urban Research and Community Actions.

Street People, Drugs, Prostitution Ministries

Anderson, J. (1995). Crisis on the Streets. Manila: Action International Ministries.

Bellamy, C. (2000). Child Labour: Rights, Risks and Realities. In R. M. Jackson (Ed.), Global Issues 99/00 (pp. 186-189). Guilford, Conn: Dushkin/McGraw Hill.

Eding, G. F. (1988). Drug Addiction and Prostitution, Urban Ministry in Asia (Vol. 198-207): Asia Theological Association,.

Khandekar, S. (1986, Jan 3l, l986). Their Pound of Flesh. India Today, pp. 80-82.

Somerset, C. (2001, November 2001). What the professionals know: The trafficking of children into and through, the U.K. for sexual purposes. ecpat(uk). Retrieved Dec 21, 2001, from the World Wide Web: www.antislavery.org/homepage/resources/children.pdf

Preger, J. (1985, July 8, l985). The Rooting Out of the Rootless. Point Counterpoint.

Pullinger, J. (1980). Chasing the Dragon. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Wilkerson, D. (1962). The Cross and The Switchblade: Pyramid Books.

Development

Beals, A. (1985). Beyond Hunger: A Biblical Mandate for Social Responsibility. Portland, OR: Multnomah.

Duncan, M. (1990). A Journey in Development. Melboume: World Vision The Bridge Series.

Yamamori, T., Myers, B., & Luscombe, K. (Eds.). (1998). Serving With the Urban Poor. Monrovia: MARC.

Poverty and Power, Community Organisation

Cook, G. (1985). The Expectation of the Poor: Latin American Basic Ecclesial Communities. Maryknoll: Orbis.

Freire, P. (1986). Pedagogy of the Oppressed (M. B. Ramos, Trans.). New York: Continuum.

Freire, P. (1995). Pedagogy of Hope (Robert R. Barr, Trans.). New York: Continuum Publishing Group.

Linthicum, R. (1991). Empowering the Poor. Monrovia, California: MARC.

The Economics of Poverty

de Soto, H. (1989b). The Other Path (J. Abbott, Trans.). New York: Harper & Row.

De Vries, B. A., & Weakland, R. G. (1998). Champions of the Poor: The Economic Consequences of  Judeo-Christian Values: Georgetown University Press.

Duchrow, U. (1988). The Witness of the Church in Contrast to the Prevailing Ideologies of the Market Economy, Poverty and Polarisation: A Call to Commitment. Manchester: William Temple Foundation.

Galbraith, J. K. (c1980). The Nature of Mass Poverty: Penguin.

Grant, G. (1987). Bringing in the Sheaves: Transforming Poverty into Productivity. Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press.

Yunus, M. (1999). The Grameen Bank. Scientific American (November 1999), 114-119.

Myrdal, G. (1968). Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of the Nations.

Santos, M. (1979). Pobreza Urbana. Sao Paulo: Editora Brasiliense.

Santos, M. (1979). The Shared Space (trans from Portuguese, C. Gerry, Trans.). London and New York: Methuen.

Poverty in the Western World

Harrington, M. (1964). The Other America: Poverty in the United States. NY: MacMillan.

John Perkins. (1996). Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It  Right.

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.

Oostdyk, H. (1983). Step One: The Gospel and the Ghetto.

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.

© Viv Grigg & Urban Leadership Foundationand other materials © by various contributors & Urban Leadership Foundation,  for The Encarnacao Training Commission.  Last modified: July 2010