Companion to the Poor
by Viv Grigg
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When he entered the 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Mit den Armen leben
- Original title
- Companion to the poor
- Original publication date
- 1984
- First words*
- Ich duckte mich unter einer Wäscheleine, sprang über eine Schlammpfütze und blickte flüchtig auf den verschmutzten Fluss, der den Slum von Tatalon auf 3 Seiten umgab.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Der Diener der Stadt war zufrieden mit seiner Arbeit.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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- Genres
- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 266.009599 — Religion Christian organization, social work & worship Missions Missions; Home and Foreign Missions; Home and Foreign History, geographic treatment, biography
- LCC
- BV3382 .G75 .A3 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Practical Theology Practical Theology Missions Missions in individual countries
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- English, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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