This is an overall Very Good Condition (With one name written on flyleaf) Ultra RARE (This appears to be the only 1st edition for sale in the World at time of first listing) 1st Edition/1st Printing 1984 "Companion to the Poor - How one man sought - and found - a way to live out the Christian gospel amongst Asia's urban poor" Softcover by Viv Grigg
Synopsis:
When he entered the Philippines Manila squatter settlement of Tatalon in 1979, Grigg knew what he wanted to do but not how to do it. The need was obvious - to establish a Christian church among Asia's forgotten people, the impoverished slum dwellers of its vast megalopolises. The challenge was to find a way that did not treat people's spiritual needs in isolation from their poverty, without simply becoming another economic or social relief program with no evangelistic component. This book is the enthralling story of how the author met and solved this problem. But in a sense, it is an unfinished story. What has begun is but the beginning of the founding of a Christian community in a dark place. This is not Viv Grigg's story alone, but God's story. For it is God who is working in Tatalon and urban slums like it, and giving people a hope that affects all of life. Viv Grigg challenges us to reexamine our strategies and design new approaches that will build Christ's kingdom among the poor "who comprise nearly half the world."
About the Author:
Viv Grigg is a catalyst of transformative movements among the urban poor. He has pioneered works - churches, advocacy organizations, educational processes , development works in many megacities around the world and directs Urban Leadership Foundation. He initiated the MA in Transformational Urban Leadership in 8 cities around the world, training slum movement leaders. He has also written "Cry of the Urban Poor", an analysis of theworldwide need for churches in the slums and case studies in slum church planting, along with "Spirit of Christ and the Postmodern City:Transformative Revival Among Auckland's Evangelicals and Pentacostals",and "Kiwinomics" among others. He is a graduate of Fuller School of Intercultural Studies, with his doctorate in theology at Auckland University and currently an associate professor of urban missions.
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