The MA in Transformational Urban Leadership is a degree designed by leaders form among the urban poor for leaders among the urban poor, a reflection-action process of learning social entrepreneurship and fostering entrepreneurship in multiplying faith communities, and community organizations in marginalized communities.

1. a tour of features
introducing
THE MATUL

2. A Degree in Urban Missions
Theology
Church
Growth
Leadership Development
Social
Sciences
Culture
Studies

3. The MATUL as a degree in:
4. Community Transformational Practica
Poor People’s
Theology
Leadership of
Apostolic
Movements
Social
Entrepreneurial
Leadership

4. A Foundation in Poor
People’s Theology
Action-reflection theology is truncated if actions
are not carefully developed according to best practice

5. Urban
Conversation
God
Conversation
Transformational
Conversation
Getting Started with Poor Peoples Theology

6. Storytelling of Jesus
Parables, Proverbs, Pithy Sayings
Correlated with
The Story-telling of the People
In Style
in content
in context
Contextual urban theologies
Getting Started with Poor Peoples’ Theology

7. Organize
for
Outcomes
Action-Reflection Theology?
• We do theology – God is a God of action
• As the people do they create local theologies
• Theologians role is to listen, identify, codify, write,
communicate, create overarching leadership to ideas
In 15 courses
Leading to a
Multi-
Dimensioned
Thesis
Transformational Conversational research
correlating the Biblical and theological
themes with the Participant Observational
anthropological methodology in a Grounded
Research approach
Theology is
always missional
for so is God

8. The core question behind
the degree is how do we
multiply apostolic leaders
of movements of
churches?
Around apostles are prophets, evangelists, pastors, teaches, deaconesses

9. It’s not just about the classes, but strengthening
YOUR FOCUS.
Apostles?

10. • pioneer new works
• evangelize
• multiply cells
• build teams of diverse gifting
• sustain mobility
• train others in diverse
ministries
• appoint successors
• suffer much
Apostles

11. Multiplying People Movements
Social Entrepreneurship
Theology from the Underside
NGO Leadership
Deacon/ness = NGO/ Business Leadership
Pastor/Teacher
Evangelist
Apostle movement
Leaders
Prophet -conceptualizers

12. Deacon/ness = NGO/ Business Leadership
Pastor/Teacher
Evangelist
Apostle
movement
Leaders
Prophet -conceptualizers

13. Across the degree students need to be multiplying
cells, small fellowships
The TUL530 Churchplanting and the TUL620 Movement Leadership courses train in apostolic
skills
One the first semester, multiplying them in the second year
The diaconal courses should contribute to this process
Many just want to be students of each course
The degree has lost one core course in this, so is not succeeding well with this

14. Social Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Theology of Economics, of Social Justice outworked in small business, and
development of NGO’s

15. WHAT IS SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE
SLUMS?
Innovative management of resources
Making profit (whether a non-profit or a business)
With a social outcome
Crossing over from the informal sector to the formal sector
Setting up of small scale businesses in the slums
Large scale projects
Models
Purpose
Vision
Economics of
Solidarity
=surviving together
Creating chains of
supportive business
Self –help development programs// Harambee schemes //SACCO

16. Contextual theology for urban poor people involves
responses to poverty. The starting point for this are the
many Biblical principles of economic discipleship. Teaching
principle of creativity, productivity, thrift, management leads
to increased success in entrepreneurship among poor
people.
As Christians in the community they also have a concern
about peoples health, education, garbage, housing, so take
lead in community organizing to accomplish goals in such
arenas. This social entrepreneurship requires a
development of skill-sets of resource raising, people
management, financial management, board and leadership
skills, business planning, fundraising.
Getting Started with Entrepreneurship

17. 7 of the courses in the MATUL lend themselves to training some of these skills.
The starting point is in the Community Economics course which covers ten
Biblical principles, and explores these at individual, community, city and
national/international levels, looking at cooperative schemes and
microfinances.
Five internships where students are working within NGO's gives them inside
understandings of NGO management, funding, financial management,
budgetting, boards, etc. The community transformation course involves them
in the logistics of a seed project with a local church.
These are integrated in the Organizational And Entrepreneurial Leadership
course which step by step leads them to develop a business plan, financial
plans, funding plan, personnell plan for a local organization, ideally where the
plan is good enough so that a funder invests small capital.
Getting Started with Entrepreneurship

18. Organize
for
Outcomes How much information?
Thus graduates should know
• how to be social entrepreneurs heading up or starting NGO's or
churches,
• how to facilitate students in their entrepreneurship or in social
entrepreneurship. They should be familiar with the complete
range of skills for managing such processes.
• Some will move into business, but with a social conscience.
• Some will move into the global social entrepreneurial scene as
businessmen /women or as leaders in large multinational NGO's.
All will have intimate knowledge of urban poor contextual
dynamics.
Multi-
Dimensioned
Lower Circuit to
Upper Circuit
Entrepreneurship

19. YEAR 1
Semester 1 Semester 2
TUL 500 Writings, Reign and Urban Realities TUL 540 Urban Reality and Theology
TUL 505 Language and Culture Acquisition TUL 550 Service to the Marginalized
TUL 520 Urban Spirituality TUL 555 Educational Centre Development
TUL 530 Building Faith Communities TUL 560
Theology & Practice of Community
Economics
YEAR 2
Semester 1 Semester 2
TUL 620 Leadership in Urban Movements TUL 640
Entrepreneurial @ Organizational
Leadership
TUL 630 Community Transformation TUL 655 Advocacy and the Urban Environment
TUL 650 Primary Health Care TUL 670 Research Project or Thesis

20. Fields
in
Urban
Missiology
Holistic Mission
Theology
Transformational
Conversations
Urban Spirituality
Church growth Evangelism
Cultural Studies
Language
Urban Realities
Leadership Studies
Movement Leadership
Transformational
Leadership
Social
Entrepreneurship
Cooperative Urban
Economics
Social Entrepreneurial
Competencies
NGO Leadership in
Marginalized
Health
Land rights
Schooling
Urban Planning

22. Summary of Principles of Kingdom Economics
Principle Genesis/ Jubilee Gospels & Acts Epistles
1. Creativity God the creator Spirit sets free
2. Cooperative
Economics
Let us make Sharing Provide for
others
3. Productivity Good outcomes
4. Work He makes
He structures
Labour in the
gospel
Work with hands
(1 Thes 4:11)
5. Rest God rests Jubilee come 3. Rest
6 Redistribut’n
for Equality
Jubilee –return
of land
Tithing
No needy one
Weekly Giving
Global redist’n
(2 Cor 8,9)
Simplicity
7. Savings &
Debt
Jubilee cancels
debts
Debts
cancelled
Owe no man
8. Celebration It was good Worship daily
9. Ownership / Own home / Forsake all, / Provide family
(Levites) yet own home (1 Tim 5:8)

23. Community
Transformation Practica
Theology of Street Kids, Land Rights, Housing, Community
Economics, Education, Social Justice outworked in small
business, advocacy for land (and latrines), working with sex
trafficked women, multiplying church based slum schools,
and development of NGO’s
How do these relate to the multiplation of movments of
churches among the poor?

24. • A unique partnership process of equality,
liberating creativity
• It’s about team work, and co-authoring
will get us there.
• First step has been to design collectively
• Then to get course outlines up to standard
• This year, significant input from across the
globe with quality course designs
• The problem with this approach is when a
school heads off in a strange direction
what influence do you have.
Collaboration

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MATUL Commission
2013