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Includes index and bibliological references

Introduction
Contributors
Section 1: Today’s Emerging Megacities in Global Perspective

The Strategic Nature of Urban Ministry / Alan McMahan
The Next Frontier: The Implications for Missions of Global Urbanization in the Twenty-first Century / Bob Garrett
Emerging Global Mega-Regions and Globalization: Missiological Implications / Gary Fujino and John Cheong

Section 2: Historical and Theological Perspectives on the City

Basil of Caesarea: An Early Christian Model of Urban Mission / Edward L. Smither
Jacques Ellul’s Contribution to an Evangelical Theology of the City / Stephen Strauss

Section 3: Theological Education and Training for Ministry in Today’s Cities

Riots in the City: Replacing Nineteenth-century Urban Training Models with Relevant “Urbanized” Training Models for the Twenty-first Century / Larry W. Caldwell and Enoch Wan
“Let Those in the City Get Out”: Making a Way of Escape / Larry Poston

Section 4: Contemporary Case Studies on Today’s Cities

Examining Evangelical Concentrations and International Migrations in the US and Canada: A Call for More and Better Urban Research / J. D. Payne
Extreme Makeover: Church Addition (Church Mergers as an Opportunity for Urban Missions) / Derek Chinn
From Niche to Parish: A Qualitative Study of Congregations Engaging Transitional Neighborhoods / Kathryn Lewis Mowry
Immigrant Communities in America—Objects of Mission or Missional Agents? The Case of the Church of Pentecost (Ghana) in Urban America / Birgit Herppich
Appropriating Faith within the City: An Examination of Urban Youth Ministry in Immigrant Churches / Janice A. McLean
A New Day Dawning in the Old Country? Twenty-first-century Urban Trends in Germany and Their Implications for Urban Church Planting / Stephen Beck
Islam in Urban America: Developing Strategy to Reach Diaspora Muslims through the Local Church / Mark Hausfeld

Rapid urbanization and globalization processes worldwide have changed the landscape of our times. In Asia and Africa the number of urban dwellers increases by an average of one million per week. More than half of the globe's seven billion human beings now live in cities. These realities have far reaching implications for mission in urban contexts at the start of the third millennium. Reaching the City: Reflections on Urban Mission for the Twenty-first Century seeks to address the missiological challenges associated with his new world order.