Mission Strategy in the City

“This is a new and important contribution to urban mission studies. The impact of over a century of global urbanization has resulted in expanding, increasingly complex numbers of multi-ethnic urban social networks within the world's cities. Their resulting struggle between conflict and assimilation is creating a new family of micro mission fields which in turn require new missional responses. Kim provides us with the urban socio-anthropological lens we need to understand and respond in new ways.”


—Bryant L. Myers, Professor of International Development, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary





“Dr. Enoch Kim is not an armchair theorist who sits in the office formulating urban mission strategies. He is a ‘reflective practitioner’ when it comes to discussing the mission to the urbanites, especially among non-western minority ethnic people groups living both in Asia as well as emigrants dwelling in large western cities. It will be a significant contribution for all of those who will be engaging in urban ministries in various forms.”


—David Tai Woong Lee, Director of Global Leadership Focus, Seoul Korea





“Enoch Kim has made a unique contribution to mission studies. In this one volume we are introduced to the study of the city, we learn about the many ways we need to look at the city, and we are shown how Christian mission needs to be shaped by urban studies. Those who hope to engage the cities of the world today would do well to start here: with Enoch Kim on the city.”


—Scott W. Sunquist, Dean, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary