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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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Build a Foundation

Creating an asset-based approach to ministry in any community is not a go-it-alone project. Gaining support and momentum for your initiative is critically important, as is recruiting leadership that has both passion and the time and energy to put toward this longer-term initiative.

As you put your leadership and working team into place, be intentional and discerning about your choices. In other words, don’t short-cut this process; it is the backbone of the entire project.

While you can take these steps in the sequence that makes the most sense in your context, we find that most communities choose to take them in this order:

  • Generate support with existing leadership
  • Discern and call a Facilitator
  • Work with leadership and the facilitator to discern and call your team

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Initiative Leadership

Calling a Team

 

Building the Foundation Theological Grounding

One Body, Many Parts

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”

As you begin the work of gathering leadership and putting together the team, keep in mind that you will want people with a variety of gifts so you can complement one another and balance each other out.

Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 and reflect on the following questions.

  • How did you hear Christ speaking to you?
  • What did you hear in the passage that helps you form your foundation?
  • What people do you need to look for as you build your team so that it represents the body of Christ?
  • How can you honor each person’s gifts that they bring?
  • What diversity and gifts do you need and to whom is God calling you to reach out?
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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