Urban Leadership Foundation

Viv Grigg, a New Zealander, is International Director of Urban Leadership Foundation, a faith mission that grows and contracts as it facilitates movements birthed from a prophetic ministry. For 28 years he has catalyzed new missions into the slums of emerging mega-cities. From 1991-1996 he was also been coordinating the urban track for the AD2000 movement, initiating urban strategic planning for missions in many cities. He has been involved in planting fellowships among students, the middle class, and in the squatter areas of Manila. Then he catalyzed four apostolic missions from various countries to the slums. He and his Brazilian wife, Ieda, a gifted communicator, have recently pioneered a team into a restricted-access city in Asia. From 1996-2000 he developed the Vision for Auckland processes in his home city. he coordinates the international Encarnação Alliance of Urban Poor Churchplanting Movements. They have three children. He is a graduate of Fuller School of World Mission and the author of Companion to the Poor (MARC:1990) and Cry of the Urban Poor (MARC:1992) Transforming Cities (Urban Leadership; 1997) and other articles and books.