About Viv Grigg

Following the Holy Spirit, and in simple faith in the Lord for provision, Viv Grigg has been a prophetic voice, living among the poor, churchplanting in Manila, Calcutta, Sao Paulo, Los Angeles, Auckland... The Lord has been pleased to use him to catalyze several new apostolic orders (networks of communities) who live incarnationally in the slums of over 40 emerging mega-cities, planting churches and creating a plethora of ministries to transform poverty and creating new patterns of evangelical urban theology .

Lead by the Lord in the 90's to initiate strategies for citywide transformative revival, he coordinated the global AD2000 Cities network, networking city leadership teams with strategies for evangelism, reconciliation and transformation and  developed Vision for Auckland. He coordinates the Encarnação Alliance of Urban Poor Movement Leaders, that networks over 45 slum movements.

Some speaking engagements include the Global Conference on World Evangelism (Korea, 1995), Mission Korea (1996), VisionNZ Congress (1997), Asbury Seminary Kingdom Conference (1998), Australian National Leadership Conference (1996, 1997, 1998), Biola Missions Conference (2001), Moody, Wheaton, RENAS conference (Brazil, 2007).... 

Academics: As an urban theologian, he teaches on Citywide Leadership, Transformation and Revival Movements, Churchplanting, Ministry Among the Urban Poor, Postmodern Urban Transformation, in seminaries as he travels, having catalyzed MA and BA training for slum movement leaders in 5 seminaries and been involved grassroots training for several thousand pastors in 23 cities over the last 3 years, and is author of Companion to the Poor, Transforming Cities and others.

Director of Urban Leadership Foundation, he is married to Ieda, a gifted Brazilian motivational teacher. They raise three teenagers, this year in Auckland.

All of these things have been by simple faith, seeing God provide, and his Spirit speak, create, raise up leaders and build structures.

Some Books

• 2006 Companion to the Poor,                                                                              ......
   rev edn, Authentic. also tr. in Portuguese, German, Korean, Tamil, Spanish, Portuguese
• 2006 Cry of the Urban Poor, rev edn., Authentic, also tr. in Portuguese.
• 2007 Transforming Cities: An Urban Leadership Guide, Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation.
• 2000 Creating an Auckland Business Theology. Urban Leadership Foundation. 80 pp.
• 2005 The Spirit of Christ and the Post-modern City: Transformative Revival Among Auckland's Evangelicals and Pentecostals, Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation, Ph D Thesis.

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