Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

154 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 2

9. A shared evangelism and outreach (i.e., a common mission). CPMs among the urban poor network and collaborate among their members in order to clearly present Jesus and his Kingdom to the lost in the city in order to multiply new congregations in unreached urban areas as quickly as possible. 10. A shared vision for connection and association (i.e., a common partnership) . CPMs among the urban poor must seek to make fresh connections, links, and relationships with other movements for the sake of regular communication, fellowship, and mission. These principles of belonging, camaraderie, and identity lay the foundation for a new paradigm of authentic ecumenical unity, the kind that can lead to partnerships and collaboration of grand scope and deep substance. Below is a short overview of the TUMI biblical basis for the kind of partnerships which can fuel and sustain credible church planting movements among the urban poor. But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. God’s Partners and Fellow Workers

~ 1 Corinthians 3.1-9 (ESV)

To Facilitate Pioneer Church Planting Movements among America’s Unreached C1 Communities

As a ministry of World Impact, TUMI is dedicated to generating and strategically facilitating dynamic, indigenous C1 church planting movements targeted to reach the 80% Window of America’s inner cities. In order to attain this purpose, we will help form strategic alliances between and among urban missionaries and pastors, theologians and