Source Material

Bolles, Richard N. How to Find Your Mission in Life. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1991.

Farnham, Suzanne G., Joseph P. Gill, R. Taylor McLean, and Susan M. Ward, Listening Hearts:Discerning Call in Community.  Harrisburg: Morehouse Publishing, 1991.

Guder, Darrell L., ed., Missional Church. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998.

Kise, Jane A.G., Hirsh, Sandra Krebs, and Stark, David, Lifekeys: Discover Who You Are. Bethany House Publishers, 2005.

Mudge, Lewis S.,  “The Blessing of Abraham: What We Can Be,” valedictory address given upon his retirement as Robert Leighton Stuart Professor of Systematic Theology at San Francisco Theological Seminary, 2000.  Available from http://www.covenantnetwork.org/sermon&papers/mudge2.html.

Pagitt, Doug, and Tony Jones, ed., An Emergent Manifesto of Hope. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2007.

Trumbauer, Jean Morris, Created and Called: Discovering Our Gifts for Abundant Living, Augsburg Fortress, 1998.

Pik-Nathan, Rabbi Steven, “Parashat Leh Leha: Be a Blessing!” Narberth, PA: Reconstructionist Jewish Federation, 2003.  Article on-line.  Available from http://www4.jrf.org/showdt&rid=283&pid=3.

Change and Leadership

Heifetz, Ronald A., The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing your Organization and the World, Harvard Business Press, 2009.

Asset-Based Community Development

The Asset-based Community Development Institute, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, http://www.abcdinstitute.org/

Dorfman, Diane, Strengthening Community Education: The Basis for Sustainable Renewal, Mapping Community Assets Workbook, Northwestern University

Rans, Susan, and Altman, Hilary, A Community Building Workbook from the Asset-Based Community Development Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

Swan, Sandra S., The New Outreach: Doing Good the Better Way, Church Publishing, 2010.

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