Discovering the Other: Asset-Based Approaches for Building Community Together - Tapa blanda

Harder, Cameron

 
9781566994293: Discovering the Other: Asset-Based Approaches for Building Community Together
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ISBN 10: 1566994292 ISBN 13: 9781566994293
Editorial: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013

Sinopsis

What is God's mission? Simply put, says theologian and field educator Cameron Harder, God's mission is to form communities that reflect and embody the life of the Trinity. Discovering the Other is an introduction to two tools that community builders have found helpful: appreciative inquiry and asset mapping. These tools help congregations see that all of life is saturated by the sacred and give them energy to begin living as if it were so. Instead of asking, 'What's wrong?' appreciative inquiry asks, 'What's right?' Asset mapping asks, 'What resources do you have personally that we could bring to our future together?' Out of these questions can arise a sense that every congregation is rich in history, people, and resources. Ideas emerge as people, inspired by the Spirit, listen and talk to each other. The leader's task is to facilitate, coalesce, and connect ideas, to catalyze and stimulate the development of vision. The creative connections lead to programs and projects that will enrich your congregation's mission. But most importantly, in the process they will engage you with others, with their stories, their hopes, their gifts - to build community. This book looks for God, not only through the lens of such tools, but in the tools themselves. It is an effort to understand how processes like appreciative inquiry and asset mapping reflect the character and community-building style of the God whom Christians worship as Divine community.

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Acerca del autor

Cameron Harder is professor of systematic theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, SK and founder of CiRCLe M, a non-profit that supports engagement of churches with their communities, especially in rural and remote settings. He trains D.Min. students in rural ministry and community development and does workshops for congregations and church judicatories. He has written chapters for Writing Off the Rural West and Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World.

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Editorial
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1566994292
ISBN 13 
9781566994293
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
202
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