Praksis Misiologi Masyarakat Perkotaan

This article aimed to study urban missiology praxis which was highlighted from the church's role as gospel deliverer point of view. This topic was conducted by a literature study approach. The results of the study revealed that urban mission services could run effectively if they paid attention to all the complexities of problems that occured in urban areas. Social problems such as unemployment, poverty, crime, injustice, hunger, environmental damage, and other social problems must be the main consideration in missions. Mission to urban communities means that the church, has a positive impact to the urban communities.Abstrak. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji praksis misiologi perkotaan yang disorot dari sudut peran gereja sebagai pembawa dan pemberita Injil. Untuk mengkaji topik ini penulis menggunakan pendekatan studi pustaka. Hasil kajian mengungkapkan bahwa pelayanan misi perkotaan dapat berjalan dengan efektif apabila memperhatikan segala kompleksitas permasalahan yang terjadi di perkotaan. Masalah-masalah sosial seperti, pengangguran, kemiskinan, kejahatan, ketidakadilan, kelaparan, kerusakan lingkungan, serta masalah-masalah sosial lainnya yang terjadi di perkotaan harus menjadi pertimbangan utama dalam misi di perkotaan. Misi terhadap masyarakat perkotaan adalah dalam pengertian gereja memberikan dampak positif bagi masyarakat perkotaan.

‘Old-Time Religion in a New-Fashioned Way’: The Ministry of ‘Billy’ Richards, 1943–74

In 1943 a twenty-six-year-old Pentecostal pastor arrived in Slough, a fast-growing industrial town that many church leaders found spiritually tough. Over the next thirty years Billy Richards built a thriving church with six hundred adult members and a thousand children attending groups across the town. His ministry extended beyond Slough through books, radio broadcasts, correspondence courses and international speaking tours. His methods embraced modern media, new forms of worship, conservative theology and a focus on the active work of the Holy Spirit. One local newspaper characterized it as ‘Old-Time Religion in a New-Fashioned Way’. This article explores the inspirational aspects of Richards's ministry, how these took institutional expression in his lifetime, and why that institution continues to be influential today. His ministry provides one example of how local churches could adapt successfully to the changing social and cultural landscape of late twentieth-century Britain. This has implications for the understanding of urban mission and the contribution made by the agency of organized religious institutions to twentieth-century secularization.

RESPONSIBILITY OF URBAN LOCAL BODY IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS-A CASE STUDY OF BARIPADA MUNICIPALITY

Population is ever increasing and urbanisation reflects the growing population. Growing urbanisation has negative impact on urban environment. Thus the towns and cities must be planned and managed well to make it a powerful tool for sustainable development. In India, urban local bodies (ULBs), which are in the process of preparing the statutory master plan or urban mission-linked city development plans, have the opportunity to synchronize their plans with SDGs. Furthermore, each of the 18 functions of the ULBs as mandated under the 74th Amendment Act, directly contributes to the fulfilment of India’s commitment to the SDGs. An attempt is made here to highlight tangible action needs to be adopted by Baripada Municipality to ensure availability and sustainable management of water as mentioned in Goal 6 of SDGs, Target 1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. We have examined here the fund requirement vis-a-vis the fund flow to ULB. JEL Classification: H54, H75, R51 KEY WORDS: Decentralisation, Water Supply, Urbanisation

Urban Mission

The city side is often incomprehensible where there can be both grandeur and deterioration in life. Inadequate life, very high social inequality, and economic inequality make the rich getting richer and the poor worse off in poverty. When faced with a mission, often people think of a field in a remote area and alienated people, people who do not know outside life, people who are primitive, who are not educated, and people who have never heard the truth The word of God. Mission can not only be done in a remote village or area, but in a life that is not far away, many people who need the Truth, who are thirsty for the Word of God, those who are poor, abandoned, who do not have a decent living and do not believe, but it is often unthinkable by the church. So the mission is not only in the village but around the church itself many people need to be served. God has prepared many fields to cultivate and harvest, just how can those who believe even those who have been called respond?

All In: The Urban Mission

The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) celebrated its 25th annual conference in October 2019. Convening in Philadelphia PA, this conference was the largest for CUMU to date, selling out weeks in advance and drawing representatives from across the United States, Canada, and South Africa. With the theme of “All In: The Urban Mission”, attendees gathered purposefully to examine how universities are striving to intentionally align their goals with the priorities of their host cities to affect desired change, drive economic development and inclusion, and address issues of shared importance.

Moving into the neighbourhood: embodiment, sacrament and ritual in urban mission

This article aims to explore the significance of embodiment, sacrament and ritual in urban pioneer ministry. Stemming from early experiences working within this context and from a particular experience of using installation art to help engage those outside the Church with its rituals and stories, I argue for the importance of the embodied experience within a particular place as a means of engagement. The literature surveyed makes the case for a broad understanding of the sacramental in which all material things have sacramental potential. The differing influences of theology and social anthropology upon the literature offer distinct perspectives on the drawing of boundaries in relation to sacrament and ritual, and on how meaning is made from experience in the light of prior knowledge and understanding of the Christian tradition.

Reading Romans in a Globalized and Increasingly Urban World

There have been many studies on urbanization, migration, and globalization in recent years. While the Scripture is often used in these studies, it is not common that Paul’s letter to the Romans is the primary focus of discussion. But Rome was the largest urban center in the ancient world, with a multicultural society that is not unlike many cities today. This means that Romans is very relevant to our globalized and increasingly urban world. This paper will show that Romans provides important resources for urban mission practitioners. In particular, it will propose that Paul envisions a love-centered multicultural community of shalom that is called to fulfil the mission of God by living out the death and life of Jesus in a world of chaos.