Author Bio

Dr. Atul Aghamkar earned his PhD in Urban Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary and currently serves as a teacher, urban church planter, and the Head of the Missions Department at the South Asia Institute for Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) in Bangalore, India. (SAIACS is a Vital SustainAbility client school.) He also directs the National Center for Urban Transformation. He is married to Suman, who heads the Urban Alliance Center in Bangalore, and they have three children.

Moving City-Ward: Urban Growth and the Church in India and the World

Although urbanization is not new, the degree and speed with which the world, and especially the non-western world, is turning urban is remarkable People from every culture and ethnicity are moving to our cities by the millions Yet we still tend to work in traditional ways of doing mission We..... read more