About Servants
Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor has been
ministering in the mega-cities of Asia for over 25 years.
The movement was started by Viv Grigg, who was working as a
missionary in Manila and over a period of four years became
increasingly burdened by the desperate situation of the
millions of poor in the city.
He was astounded to find no missionary living in the slums. And so he became the first,
renting a room in the squatter settlement of Tatalon. Out of
that, came a movement to reach the poorest of the poor in Asia
and around the world: Servants to Asia's Urban Poor.
Servants has established teams in the
Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Canada and two Indian cities, as
well as Sending Offices in North America, Australia, New Zealand, UK,
Philippines and Switzerland.
We are now praying that God will raise up
new teams to minister amongst the urban poor in Indonesia and Burma.
Urban Poor: The World's Largest Unreached People Group
At the beginning of the 21st Century, a major shift in the
demographics of the world's population took place. No longer
are most of the world rural peoples. Now, more than 50% of our
population lives in towns and cities. The past century has seen
the most massive migration in human history -- that of people
to the cities. The result is overcrowding and poverty on a
scale never known before.
Poverty, overcrowded slums, inadequate sanitation, injustice
and exploitation, a lack of health and education services,
prostitution and child exploitation, HIV/AIDS and rampant
disease are all part of the hopelessness that to millions is
daily life.
Yet there is hope
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Jesus came to bring the 'good news' of eternal life, wholeness
and healing to the poor (Luke 4:18) and the Bible speaks often
of our responsibility to them.
The urban poor are the
largest and neediest unreached people group confronting
today's church. We ignore this challenge at our peril:
"I was hungry... and you gave me nothing to eat" (Jesus,
Matthew 25:31-46)
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