Urban Leadership Foundation

Citywide Leadership

Slum Leadership requires interfacing with leaders across the city.

Movement Leadership requires working in fellowship with other leaders across a city.

• Lecture Schedule (to be edited)
• The Encarnacao Alliance a Globally Networked Community
  

Manual

• A Crucial Hour for 1700 Least Evangelized Cities

  Partnerships to Reach the Least Christian Mega-cities

  2. Transforming Your City

  Leadership and Strategy Processes in Cities

  A.  For Each City - A Purpose

  • Progressive Goals in Transforming a City for God
  • Saturation Church-planting: Three Views of the City.
  • Transforming the City: A Biblical Basis

  B. The Building Blocks

  Unity

  • The Visitation of The Holy Spirit
  • Jesus' Body - One Church in the City
  • Leadership and Strategy Processes in Cities
  • A Shared Theology of Brokenness
  • Reconciliation, Repentance and Restitution
  • Prayer Movements
  • Worksheet:  Levels of Cooperation in a City

Discerning the City

• The Biblical Basis for Research
• Maps and Statistical Research
• Discernment of Spiritual Powers
• Worksheet: Strategy Map of the City
• A Biblical Theology of Cosmic Urban Conflict

C. Catalytic Events: From Unity to Mobilization

• Consultations:  Vision Statement to Prophetic Message
• City Strategy Congress
• Networks?
• Worksheet: From Vision Statement to Goals

D. Fathering Cities: Building Leadership Teams

• City Eldership: A Biblical Basis
• Four Types of City Leadership
• Urban Leadership Styles
• Building the Leadership Team
• The City Coordinator
• Urban Leadership Networking Centers
• Lay Leadership and House Church Dynamics
• The Role of the Mega-Church
• Worksheet : City Leadership Teams

E. Networks: Strategic Channels

• Goal 1: Web of Evangelism Networks
• Goal 2: Church Growth and Planting
• Goal 3: Church Restructuring and Renewal
• Goal 4: Transformation Network Web
• Your Kingdom Come:  Rebuilding the City

 3. Models of CityWide Strategies

• Chennai Transformation Network
• The Wanganui Story: Reconciliation
• Mexico City  -V E L A: Unity From Research
• Bombay Urban Ministry Center: Centre of Unity
• Project Brussells '91:  A Unified Evangelistic Strategy
• Christian Love Link:  City Churches For The  Needy
• Seattle: The Millennium I I I  Project
• Colorado Springs:  Mega Church and City Evangelism
• Pittsburgh Leadership Found'n: Institutional Transformation

4. Inter-City Network Processes

• Goals of  the A D 2000 Cities Network
• A D2000 Cities Network Strategy: City Leadership Teams
• Planning From the  Global  Congress  Cities Network
• The Inter-City Network Coordinator
• City Leaders'   Consultation
• Partnership Processes
• Cities Research Goals

5. Inter-City Models

• March for Jesus
• Brigada - Cities E-Mail Conference
• AD2000 Urban Poor Network
• Viva Street Children's Network: The New 100 Million
• Christ for the Cities
• Urban Vision

 6. Resource Materials

Background Readings

Grigg, Viv (2009) The Spirit and Postmodern City Transformative Revival Among Auckland’s Evangelicals and Pentecostals. Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation.

Wagner, C. P. (1998). The New Apostolic Churches. Ventura, Calif., Regal.

Learning Outcomes

• Values a sustained balanced concentration between local ministry and networking with other city leaders.
• Has moved from a legalistic understanding of the local church to a Biblical understanding of the principles and diverse structures and styles in the nature of the citywide church.
• Demonstrated ability and effectiveness in roles in a team that brings together a 2-3 day forum/consultation of leaders from a sector of the city to examine an issue, and publish theology or strategy as a result.
• Familiar with all of the following skills as part of a team, and demonstrated ability to do one of: team Leadership, a project management plan, budgeting, brochure design, recruitment, physical operations, consultation management or Leadership, integration of results, publishing for an event.