People from all over the world are choosing to live and minister in poor neighborhoods, growing friendships and churches with their urban poor neighbors for the glory of God and the transformation of the community. This guide equips those incarnational leaders to start strong, stay, and succeed in the uniquely difficult environments of the world's inner cities and slums.

The work of urban poor ministry is not easy. So what does it mean to truly thrive in this unique context? That's the question that T. Aaron Smith asked 100 incarnational leaders to help him answer. He integrated their voices with more than twelve years' worth of stories from his own ministry in Manila, Philippines, to create a thoughtful reflection guide that will prove to be helpful to incarnational leaders of all types, in any context.