Called to Transformation

Working Together for Lasting ChangeEpiscopal ChurchCalled to Transformation

An Asset-Based Approach to Engaging Church and Community

is centered around the belief that individuals, groups, and communities have the gifts they need to address the needs they see around them. 1 Corinthians 12 tells us that each of us are given different gifts to serve the community and we are all a part of the body of Christ working together. Learn more…

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About

What we would like to do is change the world – make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do. – Dorothy Day

Called to Transformation: An Asset-Based Approach to Engaging Church and Community is centered around the belief that individuals, groups, and communities have the gifts they need to achieve God’s dream for their community. 1 Corinthians 12 tells us that each of us is given different gifts to serve the community and we are all a part of the body of Christ working together.

It is our hope that Called to Transformation will help faith communities and the communities in which they serve:

  • discern their gifts from God and how those gifts can be used to the benefit of all,
  • be in partnership and engage with one another as they work together,
  • move from thinking that there is an inadequacy they are unable to address to believing that they have enough, they are enough, and that God has given them enough to achieve their dreams for their community.

After several years of offering regional Called to Transformation trainings in person, Episcopal Relief & Development and The Episcopal Church have partnered with Learning, Faith, & Media to adapt our curriculum into hybrid trainings that can be convened by local leaders of congregations and other ministries. Participants will learn important asset-based community development concepts online and gather in-person or on video chat for skills practice, project planning, and a local site visit.

We believe this new model will allow even more congregations and their community partners to equip themselves to map and mobilize assets in their neighborhoods and regions and help build a more equitable, resilient society.

Learn more about this Project

This program represents the intersection of mission and passion embraced by its collaborators and has a shared vision for how this work is important in the life of our communities. Read more from our collaborators about this project:
  • Episcopal Relief and Development
  • Domestic Poverty Office of the Episcopal Church

We also give special thanks to the team at The Beecken Center of the School of Theology at the University of the South who helped facilitate this process and pilot the training.

This program represents the intersection of mission and passion embraced by The Episcopal Church and Episcopal Relief & Development. ©2021 Episcopal Relief & Development and The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, The Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017


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Special thanks to The Beecken Center who helped facilitate this process and pilot the training.
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