Urban Leadership Foundation
A hub for leadership training in cities and among the world's 1.4 billion slum-dwellers
AD2000 City Leadership Goals
Context
As we have moved from an industrial to an information age, the structure of missions are rapidly changing. From hierarchical institutions, to relational networks. From mission agencies with expertise that they only possess, to a free flow of information. From control over the finances and employment of missionaries, there is a movement to partnerships and networks. From lifelong calling to a people to a combination of this plus people on projects with limited duration and single foci. From colonial mission to partnerships serving dynamic national churches. From easy access nations to restricted access nations. From rural and tribal people group missions to penetrating complex and expensive urban environments.
In this context AD2000 emerged as a network of networks that interface between many of these changes. Within it the cities resource network focused on the task of partnerships to the least evangelised cities.
With Viv Grigg completing his term as coordinator in 1996 at the GCOWE Congress, Leadership was passed to Paul Landry. Some of the goals expressed below have continued on in the Encarnacao Alliance, TOPIC and Viva Network.
What was the AD2000 Movement?
In a spirit of servanthood the AD2000 movement seeks to encourage, motivate, and network men and women church leaders by inspiring the vision of reaching the unreached by the year AD2000 through consultations, prayer efforts and written materials.
The Cities Resource Network was one of 10 global networks that served the 180 national movements. It catalyzed city Leadership teams to develop strategies for mega-cities and the 1700 Least Evangelized Cities.
A. AD2000 Cities Network Purposes
To Catalyze City Leadership Teams with Strategies for Evangelism and Transformation
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Extent: for all 3400 cities over 100,000 people |
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Purposes: for evangelization - establishing a church geographically and culturally
accessible to every community (geographic, ethno-linguistic, economic level)
of that city |
| Priorities: Encourage partnerships and Leadership teams for 1700 Least Evangelized Cities |
Priority One: Penetration evangelism in cities less than 0.5% Christian
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400 Mega-Cities (over 1 million and capitals including some "Gateway cities") |
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Cities over 100,000 |
Priority Two: Church-planting evangelism in cities less than 3% Christian
Process Goals
Structure for Mobilization:
Through missions, national churches, DAWN, AD2000 prayer, other networks, encourage coordinators/city Leadership teams in:Research Consortium: Network an international urban research consortium that identifies city needs and generates simple city profiles for mobilization.
Workers: Catalyze movements of workers in every city living among the poor, including movements between two-thirds cities of different continents.
Theological Reflection: Encourage the emergence of theologies:
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reflecting the Kingdom impact on city culture and structure |
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poor peoples' theologies |
Reorientation of Urban Mission: Churches, development agencies and missions to make holistic churchplanting among the urban poor a priority.
B. Teambuilding Goals
To network and inspire vision in the global church for indigenous city Leadership teams and missions partnerships with citywide strategies:
Mobilize Indigenous City Leadership Teams
| Mobilize City Leadership Teams and Mission Partnerships with vision and strategy for their cities. |
| Cultivate unity through prayer initiatives, brokenness and reconciliation |
| Explore needs and resources, seeking God's direction for citywide vision and strategy |
| Begin with the poor. These are cities of the poor. The poor are the key to the city. |
Build Inter-City and Regional Network of City Leaders
| Build regional (continent) and inter-city (usually countrywide) networks of city leaders |
| Initiate storytelling consultations to encourage Leadership emergence among city leaders |
| Enable indigenous strategies and link to global resources |
| Expand specialist networks such as Urban Training Centers, Street Children, Research, Slums, Elites |
Catalyze Adopt-a-city Processes to Resource Least Evangelized City Leadership
| Encourage churches in evangelized cities to adopt "Least Evangelized Cities". |
| Build from other AD2000 tracks such as the Praying Through the Windows: 100 Gateway Cities initiative, Distinguished Leaders, etc... |
| Build from catalytic events such as riots, women's consultations, Jesus Marches, DAWN Congresses etc. |
C. Measurable Objectives
Structure and Integration
| Build from the 14 regional coordinators, 8 sub-track coordinators and their teams to identify, and involve coordinators for 1000 cities (96), 3600 (99). |
| Catalyze citywide Leadership teams with vision and strategies by strategic planning consultations in 1000 cities by AD2000. |
| City coordinators and teams and key city leaders meet yearly in each region. |
| Brazilian and Latin mission agencies spearhead in partnership with national churches, the adoption of the 1000 least evangelized cities, at least a team in each (adopt by 96, placement by 98). |
Specialist networks
| Urban Poor : network practitioners around the globe as a community of suffering colaborers in a story-telling learning environment that explodes movements of workers in every city with clusters of slums, squatters and street people. |
| Street Children: The Viva Network to move to full global development |
| Training Centers: Identify all urban training centres, and mobilize strategies for establishing these in every mega-city. |
| Research: Upgrade Global listing of cities and the work among them. Develop Adopt-a-City profiles in process in 100 cities (Dec. '95), 300 cities (Dec. 1996), 1000 cities (Dec. 1998). |
| Businessmen and Elites: encourage the involvement of networks of businessmen's discipling movements from cities around the world |
Research and Publications (all translated into major languages)
| Three monthly newsletter. |
| Revised city strategy handbook translated in major languages and distributed to every city leader . |
| Publication of a book on stories of the elite in transforming structures |
Interfacing Resources from Networks into City Strategies
| Develop a partnering project with each of the AD2000 Tracks and other related networks |
Transformation of Urban Structures and Poverty
| Interface the urban poor specialist network with the business leader's network building value systems concerning transformation of the structures of society. |
| All consultations to include measures of the Kingdom nature of the gospel: (a) partnering of churches of upper and lower levels of society, and (b) extent of transforming the socio-political conditions that perpetuate poverty. |
© Viv Grigg
and the Encarnação Alliance Training Commission
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Last updated: 05/15/09.