Encarnação Alliance partners Master of Arts in Transformational Urban Leadership (MATUL) Transform your City for the Kingdom of God A Global Learning Network

What is transformational leadership? When you look at your city what do you see?  Many focus on the new developments, the condos, malls, businesses.  A few have eyes to see behind these developments: s quatter communities Homelessness, unemployment Street children Prostitution, drug addiction Movements of disciples and poor people’s churches are the critical catalyst in transforming this poverty Churchplanting and entrepreneurial leadership generates such movements Picking garbage in Payatas

What’s the need?  2 billion people around the globe living in slums, sidewalks, under bridges, on riverbanks, and in garbage dumps. We need to be demonstrators of the Kingdom of God to the marginalized. We need to be demonstrators of the Kingdom of God to the marginalized.

Along the Rails in Metro Manila The MA-Transformational Urban Leadership is focused on finding answers and implementing change

Seminary and serving the poor  So much of seminary education is upwardly mobile. MATUL is downwardly mobile.  The MATUL program sharpens concepts, attitudes and skills needed to uplift poor communities both spiritually and materially. This is your invitation to join communities of scholar-practitioners serious about bringing the Gospel of the Kingdom to the poor. ATS Students in Welfareville

The MA in Transformation Urban Leadership An innovative program that includes two years of field work and residency Studying with senior movement leaders and development practitioners Completing supervised training in various areas of churchplanting, community development, and bringing justice.

Spiritual and experiential preparation We recognize that ministry among the urban poor is something that cannot be learned only in the classroom We emphasize experiential learning by connecting the classroom to marginalized urban peoples.

MATUL Learning Domains 6.Culture Studies 5. Community Transformation 2.Urban Spirituality and Theology 1. Urban Churchplanting & Movement Leadership 3. Specialist Disciplines: Slum Schools, Health Programs, Marginalized etc 4. Small Business and Organizational Development Biblical Studies infiltrate each course

The MA includes all the skills and theory of the Encarnação Alliance grassroots churchplanters training … Domains for Grassroots Churchplanting 1. Urban Spirituality and Theology 2.Biblical Studies 3. Entrance & Evangelism 4. Church Growth & Pastoral Care 5. Leadership 6. Community Transformation 7. Advocacy & Justice In addition the MA includes: Movement Leadership Theological Reflection Entrepreneurial Development Extended Engagement in Holistic Ministries

Introduction Developing a Poor Peoples' Church Introductions Who are the poor of... Personal evaluation Theological Framework The Kingdom of God The Kingdom and the Poor Story-telling Theologies Kingdom Economics in OT & NT Spiritual Formation Spirituality for the Slums A Theology of Churchplanting Suffering Prayer and fasting The Slum Context Global movements in slums Causes of Slum Poverty Squatter Culture and the Church Squatter Economics Entrance & Evangelism Incarnation Styles of Evangelism in the Slums Finding the Needs: Entrance Points The Spirit, Evangelism, and Justice Power Encounters Reaching Gangs & Prostitutes Discipleship & Pastoring Discipling Movements Training the illiterate through story- telling and drama Discipling Street Children Ministering to HIV/Aids victims Developing a Work Plan Church Growth Four Seasons of Growth Pastoral Care Cash Flows of urban poor churches Slum Church Worship Leadership Developing Leadership Gifts & Eldership (Eph 4:11,12) Training of Urban Poor Pastors Team Building Family Survival in the Slums Leadership for Multiplying Churches Community Transformation Diaconal Development Preventive Health Evangelism Education – and church-planting HIV & AIDS Care Intro to Micro- Enterprise Project Design & Event Management how to budget, fund raise, income generating projects, small business management Advocacy Community Organisation Theology of land rights Connecting Rich and Poor Churches Kingdom & Justice Mission Strategy Urban Poor Mission Structures Revival and the movements of God’s Spirit among the poor Topics in Grassroots Training of Slum Pastors

With a base in the grassroots training in holistic churchplanting, i n addition at an MA level… Development of Movement Leadership e.g. issues moving from leadership of 6 churches to 30, of small economic or development projects to wider scale processes Expansion of Theoretical Understandings e.g. Understanding City Systems or Structures of Advocacy Preparation of Cross-cultural Missionaries Our major goal is to create structures serving 5,000 leaders who will move 50,000 from the slums to the slums Expansion of Holistic Elements in Church Formation e.g How to get every elder established with a Kingdom economic theology and economic base Entrepreneurial Development

How does MATUL differ from other degrees? An Entirely New Field: Urban Poor Movement Leadership A Leadership Degree Movement Leadership (evang/apostolic leadership centre) vs Management for NGO ‘s (diaconal centre) this is not an MBA Urban Poor Leadership (This is an urban degree) A Movement Leadership Degree vs a Development Degree Why? Theologically - Jesus came to train movement leaders (apostles). Deacons/managers were in support roles –His style was holistic mission with a centrality of evangelism, not holism based on Western fundraising (cf. Valdir Steuernagals reflections at WEA on failure of holism in contrast with holistic mission) Urban Poor Leadership There is no formal training for these leaders globally A largely untapped field of knowledge

Urban Poor Church Planting Urban Spirituality Urban Reality and Theology Field Supervision Service to the Marginalized Educational Centre Development Community Business Development Leadership in Urban Movements Primary Health Care Advocacy and the Urban Environment Theology & Practice of Community Transformation Entrepreneurial & Organizational Leadership Integration Seminar and Capstone Project Some MATUL “hands on” courses

The Kingdom of God as core theological framework Holistic church-planting as central vehicle for Kingdom development The spiritual is central to economic, social and justice Kingdom dimensions The Church, the Word, the Spirit are the Primary Agents of Transformation International Diaconates are to serve the advance of the incarnational church Story-telling Is the primary methodological process of doing theology among the poor not linear Western logic Incarnational requires students to relocate to/next to slums for large portions of the degree Core Theological Concepts Behind the Degree

Who should join this program? Those with experience in churchplanting and church-based development Those wishing to become change agents among the urban poor cross culturally Up to 1/3 of each class can come from NGO backgrounds if they wish to develop a holistic ministry lifestyle

MATUL Partners MATUL is a program in partnership with The Encarnação Alliance, an international network of urban poor leaders and scholars Asian Theological Seminary in Manila, begin July 2007 Hindustan Bible Institute in Chennai, India begin June 2007 Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles expected to begin June 2008 A web-based process for field-based teams will be available in late 2008 An African and Latin partner in 2009, Corrie de Boer and students in Welfareville

MATUL Leadership Encarnação Alliance Coordinator, Dr. Viv Grigg, lived in the slums of Manila, Calcutta and Sao Paulo. (Get his book, Companion to the Poor (Authentic) for core elements of this program). Dr. Corrie DeBoer is the Chair of the Encarnação Alliance Training Commission Dr. Lee Wanak is Program Director at Asian Theological Seminary in Manila Dr Paul Cornelius is Principal of HBI in Chennai, India Dr Rich Slimbach is developing this for Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles Corrie and students in Welfareville

What are the costs per unit? at ATS Philippines & Third World HK, Korea, Singapore & Taiwan Western countries & Japan Per Unit For Degree Php 1,500 PhP US$ US$ US$ US$ at HBI at APU Scholarships available for qualified students

Who's qualified? 1. Possess an undergraduate degree. 2.Pass the ATS English Admission Test. 3.Complete an application form ATS application found at: Look for Application Form buttons) HBI application found at: APU application to be announced What is the schedule? Registration and classes begin in June.

Campus: 54 Scout Madriñan, Quezon City, Philippines Mailing Address: QCCPO Box Quezon City 1102, Philippines ATS Phone: (632) Loc 125, Fax: (632) Center for Urban Transformation Phone: (632) Program Director: Dr. Lee Wanak/ Program Assistant: Nelson Gaurano/ Chair, Encarnação Alliance Training Commission: Dr. Corrie DeBoer/ General Asian Theological Seminary Our mission is to glorify God by providing quality theological education to prepare leaders who will effect biblical transformation in the Church and societies in Asia and beyond.

Hindustan Bible Institute Chennai Contact

Asuza Pacific University This program will be delivered entirely as a field based program overseas Expected to begin June 2008 Contact: Dr Rich Slimbach