Urban to the Core: Motives for Incarnational Mission

Why would anyone choose to move into one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the country? Why would parents take their children to live in an inner city estate? What leads church ministers to give up the security of a salary and a house to have the freedom to go and live in the shadow of a high rise tower block?

Urban To The Core gets to the heart of the motives which have inspired more than one hundred people to relocate to inner-city communities in Britain with Urban Expression.With personal and Biblical reflection earthed in twenty-five years of urban activism, Juliet Kilpin unpacks the foundational core values which have persuaded this small mission agency to prioritise the urban poor.

With honesty and vulnerability team members, past and present, provide street level stories which reveal how these values have been lived out in practise. This book pulls no punches and urges the reader to recognise the consequences that arise now that the globe is urban to the core, with most of the world’s population living in cities. The stories, reflections and urban prayers offered in this book will provoke, inspire and challenge followers of Jesus who are concerned about the future shape of mission and will encourage and equip those already engaged with our majority urban world.