Front Matters

8 • F RONT M ATTERS : P REREQUISITE R EADINGS FOR THE E VANGEL S CHOOL OF U RBAN C HURCH P LANTING

3. The Movement’s Missional Design • The overall church planting movement will be one which reflects a “Three-self” Missional Design (self-sustaining, self- reproducing, and self-governing). • We plant churches with World Impact staff that transition to indigenous leadership and churches which begin with indigenous leadership. • The dynamics of our church planting movements will be known by shared spirituality, the ability to contextualize, and to create and sustain standardized practices and structures. 4. Values • “The best way to restore Christians to vibrant theology, worship, discipleship, and outreach is to recapture the Church’s identity as a People of the Story, through a re-connection to the Church’s Sacred Roots.” (Pg. 151- Jesus Cropped from the Picture by Allsman) • Connecting the Great Tradition, The Urban Poor, and Urban Church Planting • We plant church associations, facilitate movements, and engage collaborative partnerships. • P.L.A.N.T. Acrostic • Indigenous Urban Leader Commitment • Historic Commitment to the Urban Poor and to Cities • A Missional (incarnational) Approach • Honoring multi-ethnic, multicultural, ethnic specific, and first generation-immigrant focuses • Planting churches with the existing urban church 5. Principles

Source: Planting Churches among the City’s Poor, Volume 1, pp. 288-291

6. Supplemental Initiatives • Urban Church Associations (UCA’s) • World Impact Associates (WIA’s) • The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) • SIAFU (Chapters and Leadership Homes)