Luther K. Snow

The Power of Asset Mapping (eBook, ePUB)

How Your Congregation Can Act on Its Gifts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Asset mapping isn't a new system or theory. It's a way of thinking, a doorway into an "open-sum" perspective rooted in the Bible and common experience. The Power of Asset Mapping, by long-time community developer Luther K. Snow, shows congregational leaders how to help a group recognize its assets and the abundance of God's gifts and to act on them in ministry and mission. Congregations will find the book easy to read and immediately useful. Leaders can begin with the tested Quick and Simple Asset Mapping Experience to strengthen and inspire any group in the congregation in as little as an hour. Futher tips, techniques, stories, and lessons drawn from the experience of diverse congregations will help readers discover how asset mapping works. Finally, Snow provides lessons about why asset mapping strengthens faith and community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781566996709
• Artikelnr.: 41010182

Autorenporträt

By Luther K. Snow

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann Preface Acknowledgments Part
One: The WHAT: What Is Congregational Asset Mapping? 1: A Personal Asset
Starter Begin with Basic Assets Look for Hidden Assets Find the Assets
inside Needs Widen Your Circle Connect the Dots 2: The Quick and Simple
Congregational Asset-Mapping Experience An Overview 1. Recognize Your
Assets 2. Connect the Dots 3. Vote with Your Feet Learning by Doing Part
Two: The HOW: How Do We Map Assets? 3: Basements, Halls, and Meeting Rooms:
Opportunities Everywhere Who, Me? With Whom? When Can I Put Asset Mapping
in Action? How Do I Introduce the Idea to a Group? How Do I get Ready to
Lead a Group? How Will We Use Our Time? Try It and See! 4: Before Step One:
An Optional Jumping-Off Point What Happens: Centering The Facilitator's
Task The Process Steering Clear of Dead Ends Keys for Noticing God's Will
The Main Thing to Remember 5: Step One: Recognizing Our Assets What
Happens: Abundance The Facilitator's Task The Process Steering Clear of
Dead Ends Keys for Recognizing Our Assets The Main Thing to Remember 6:
Step Two: Connecting the Dots What Happens: Affinity The Facilitator's Task
The Process Steering Clear of Dead Ends Keys for Connecting the Dots The
Main Thing to Remember 7: Step Three: Voting with Our Feet What Happens:
Release The Facilitator's Task The Process Steering Clear of Dead Ends Keys
for Voting with Our Feet The Main Thing to Remember 8: Reflecting on Asset
Mapping: An End, a Beginning, a Renewal What Happens: Reflection The
Facilitator's Task The Process Steering Clear of Dead Ends Keys for
Reflecting on Asset Mapping The Main Thing to Remember Part Three: The WHY:
Why Does Asset Mapping Work? 9: The Inner Workings of Asset Mapping
Learning from Congregational Asset Mapping Modeling Faith in Community Good
Cycles and Bad Cycles Open-Sum and Fixed-Sum Dynamics Breaking Out with
Asset Mapping Open-Sum Faith, Open-Sum Community 10: Frequently Shared
Lessons What Congregational Asset Mapping Is, and Is Not Recapping Lessons
from the Quick and Simple Experience Strategy for Open-Sum Action After the
Quick and Simple Experience 11: More Frequently Shared Lessons:
Congregational Life Stewardship Congregational Development Faith
Partnerships Compassion and Justice in Public Life Evangelism Epilogue: An
Asset Mapper Reads the Bible The Fullness of Grace: The Parable of the
Talents The Wholeness of Grace: Psalm 23 The Presence of Grace: The Loaves
and the Fishes Coda Appendix: Resources for Further Exploration