When he entered the Manila squatter settlement of
Tatalon in 1979, Grigg knew what he wanted to do but
not how to do it. The need was obvious-—to establish a
Christian church among Asia's forgotten people, the
impoverished slum dwellers of its vast megalopolises.
The challenge was to find a way that did not treat
people's spiritual needs in isolation from their poverty,
without simply becoming another economic or social
relief program with no evangelistic component.
This book is the enthralling story of how the author
met and solved this problem. But in a sense, it is an
unfinished story. What has begun is but the beginning
of the founding of a Christian community in a dark
place.
This is not Viv Grigg's story alone, but God's story.
For it is God who is working in Tatalon and urban
slums like it, and giving people a hope that affects all
of life.
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