Urban Leadership Foundation

Maps and Statistical Research

 

 Harvest Force: Mapping the Church in the City
·        Place the churches in the city and the inter-church organizations on a large piece of plastic laid over the city map and place at back of the room
·        Pass out listing of churches, addresses and pastors for verification by the pastors (number of members and language groups should be included in the survey)
·        Discuss idea of selling this as a directory and getting advertising.
·        Diagram the networks between these churches, identifying key nodes, centers of each network. If possible do this by different color. Many of the networks will be denominational 

Harvest Fields: Overlay 1: Looking At Ethnic Groups
·        Overlay a diagram of language groupings in the city on plastic on the charts
·        Which are responsive?
·        Which have a church?
·        Discuss the idea of a booklet of people group profiles for these groups that show their background and possible ways they could be reached. This would develop one to two pages on each group, on defining who , how many, issues of penetration, group formation, Leadership emergence, cultural keys, who have initiated ministries, what is working, etc. In Calcutta this resulted in a 150 page document covering 85 minority groups within t he city. There are another 85 major languages that have yet to be done.

 

 

Harvest Fields: Looking at Networks
·        Discuss concept by looking at how politicians relate to politicians, and how teachers relate to teachers, etc. These are the bridges to other groups.
·        Have a group list other networks . Are there ministries to these? (Usually inter-church ministries).
·        List the 20 or 30 people who hold the power to determine the direction of the city. Analyzing what Christian leaders are in relationship to each of these.

Harvest Fields: Looking at Socio-Economic Groups
·        Who are the rich? Discuss Jesus reaching the elites. Social transformation occurs from the top down. Is this happening? If not, why not?
·        Are there students? What ministries exist to them?
·        Who are the poor? Who are reaching the prisoners? the slaves? the street children? Expand Luke 4:18-20.
·        Are there special classes that are separated off from others not by language but by some other social factor?
·        Do these have churches? Are there "bridges" to them?
·        Discuss writing 2 page profiles on each of these and proposals for evangelizing each group. 

Harvest Force: Overlay 3:Looking at Cities within Cities
·        List all the cities or mark them on an overlay
·        Are there city networks or city coordinators for each one?
·        Are there natural groupings of cities that work together?

  

 

What Churches Were Planted When?
·        When doing the pre-conference survey find the starting date of the churches. Graph these onto an overhead, finding out in which years there were major new numbers of ministries. Why?
·        Discuss the idea of someone writing a booklet of 30 historical case studies from the history of the churches (one page each, with principle at the bottom of each page). Who planted what when and how did it grow? What worked?
·        Which churches have grown and how?
·        Have case studies presented and reflection on the principles they highlight
·        Discuss the idea of a booklet of 30 present day case studies, one page each, with a principle at the bottom of the page. 

What to Look For In Doing Transformational Analysis
·        Level of Christianity in the society (% Christian, % church attendance)
·        Levels of penetration, points of contact with the elites
·        Structures of the City: Analysis by groups of Christian leaders in the city of how the Kingdom of God is and could impact systems in the city.

o       the educational systems
o       political, civic and urban planning systems
o       law
o       ethnic, racial and minorities issues
o       health, dental and medical systems
o       the arts
o       the banking, and business sector etc.
 

1.      Who determines the direction of each sector?
2.      Who advises them and how?
3.      What are the ethical issues of the day? How can they be publically addressed?
4.      How does one move from ethics to effective evangelistic cells in this sector of the city?

·        Communities in the city where transformation has taken place
·        Ranking of perceived needs in the city or in sectors of the city

What to Look for in Poverty Analysis
·        What are the major groups of the poor?
·        Which groups are responsive?
·        Which groups already have ministries among them?
·        Is there a network of ministries among the poor?
·        What are some ways to connect middle class churches with the poor? 

Harvest Force: Identify the networks and leaders of the city

Harvest Force: Leadership in the City

 

  
·        Who are the appointed religious leaders in the churches?
·        Who are the apostolic, prophetic and evangelistic leaders?
·        To what extent are they functioning in unity? (see earlier worksheets).
·        The simplest way to do this in any ministry is a large sheet of cardboard and a networking diagram (see illustration ). What are the key groupings of pastors in the city? Draw them in. Write the name of the leader of each. Put those that have similar values near to each other. For example in Los Angeles we divided the page into four quarters representing evangelistic networks, social service networks, prayer networks and pastors networks. Some networks cross between the quarters. Draw in connecting lines to show the relationships between these leaders. Draw in arrows that show some ministries that feed people or leaders into other networks.

 © Viv Grigg and the Encarnação Alliance Training Commission
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Last updated: 05/15/09.