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| Center of Urban Missions |
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More than half of the entire population of the city of Nairobi live in informal settlements, sometimes called slums. Church Army’s Carlile College opened its Centre for Urban Mission in the heart of Kibera slum in 2003. |
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| Kibera is the largest informal settlement in Africa south of the Sahara. The Centre offers a variety of training programmes for pastors and church leaders who live and work in the informal settlements. |
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Our vision is to see the transformation of informal settlements through the ministry of the local church, so we are passionate about equipping Christian leaders to make a difference in their churches and communities. |
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| The Centre for Urban Mission seeks to take the context of the informal settlements seriously and has developed an approach to training that wants to both learn from and respond to the challenges of the informal settlements. We believe that it is impossible to engage seriously with the context of the informal settlements from suburbia. |
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| Moving the urban mission course into Kibera enables us to more effectively contextualise our programmes so that they connect with the realities of ministry in the poorest parts of the city. By inserting part of the college in the slum we provide the space for students to explore the relationship between the gospel and the context of the slum. Here, away from the more familiar surroundings of a typical theological college, courses are developed and taught through an engagement with the faith, struggles and experiences of churches and communities living beneath Kibera’s iron sheet skyline. |
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