Reaching the City (EMS 20)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Contributors
Section 1: Today’s Emerging Megacities in Global Perspective

• The Strategic Nature of Urban Ministry by Alan McMahan
• The Next Frontier: The Implications for Missions of Global Urbanization in the Twenty-first Century by Bob Garrett
• Emerging Global Mega-Regions and Globalization: Missiological Implications by Gary Fujino and John Cheong

Section 2: Historical and Theological Perspectives on the City

• Basil of Caesarea: An Early Christian Model of Urban Mission by Edward L. Smither
• Jacques Ellul’s Contribution to an Evangelical Theology of the City by Stephen Strauss

Section 3: Theological Education and Training for Ministry in Today’s Cities

• Riots in the City: Replacing Nineteenth-century Urban Training Models with Relevant “Urbanized” Training Models for the Twenty-first Century by Larry W. Caldwell and Enoch Wan
• “Let Those in the City Get Out”: Making a Way of Escape by Larry Poston

Section 4: Contemporary Case Studies on Today’s Cities

• Examining Evangelical Concentrations and International Migrations in the US and Canada: A Call for More and Better Urban Research by J. D. Payne
• Extreme Makeover: Church Addition (Church Mergers as an Opportunity for Urban Missions) by Derek Chinn
• From Niche to Parish: A Qualitative Study of Congregations Engaging Transitional Neighborhoods by Kathryn Lewis Mowry
• Immigrant Communities in America—Objects of Mission or Missional Agents? The Case of the Church of Pentecost (Ghana) in Urban America by Birgit Herppich
• Appropriating Faith within the City: An Examination of Urban Youth Ministry in Immigrant Churches by Janice A. McLean
• A New Day Dawning in the Old Country? Twenty-first-century Urban Trends in Germany and Their Implications for Urban church planting by Stephen Beck
• Islam in Urban America: Developing Strategy to Reach Diaspora Muslims through the Local Church by Mark Hausfeld

Index