The Power of Asset Mapping: How Your Congregation Can Act on Its Gifts

Luther K. Snow

doi:10.5771/9781566996709

Summary

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.

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Copyright Year: 2004
ISBN-Print: 978-1-56699-294-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-56699-670-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 148
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Begin with Basic Assets No access
  2. Look for Hidden Assets No access
  3. Find the Assets inside Needs No access
  4. Widen Your Circle No access
  5. Connect the Dots No access
2. 1. An Overview No access
  2. 1. Recognize Your Assets No access
  3. 2. Connect the Dots No access
  4. 3. Vote with Your Feet No access
  5. Learning by Doing No access
1. 1. Who, Me? No access
  2. With Whom? No access
  3. When Can I Put Asset Mapping in Action? No access
  4. How Do I Introduce the Idea to a Group? No access
  5. How Do I Get Ready to Lead a Group? No access
  6. How Will We Use Our Time? No access
  7. Try It and See! No access
2. 1. What Happens: Centering No access
  2. The Facilitator’s Task No access
  3. The Process No access
  4. Steering Clear of Dead Ends No access
  5. Keys for Noticing God’s Will No access
  6. The Main Thing to Remember No access
3. 1. What Happens: Abundance No access
  2. The Facilitator’s Task No access
  3. The Process No access
  4. Steering Clear of Dead Ends No access
  5. Keys for Recognizing Our Assets No access
  6. The Main Thing to Remember No access
4. 1. What Happens: Affinity No access
  2. The Facilitator’s Task No access
  3. The Process No access
  4. Steering Clear of Dead Ends No access
  5. Keys for Connecting the Dots No access
  6. The Main Thing to Remember No access
5. 1. What Happens: Release No access
  2. The Facilitator’s Task No access
  3. The Process No access
  4. Steering Clear of Dead Ends No access
  5. Keys for Voting with Our Feet No access
  6. The Main Thing to Remember No access
6. 1. What Happens: Reflection No access
  2. The Facilitator’s Task No access
  3. The Process No access
  4. Steering Clear of Dead Ends No access
  5. Keys for Reflecting on Asset Mapping No access
  6. The Main Thing to Remember No access
1. 1. Learning from Congregational Asset Mapping No access
  2. Modeling Faith in Community No access
  3. Good Cycles and Bad Cycles No access
  4. Open-Sum and Fixed-Sum Dynamics No access
  5. Breaking Out with Asset Mapping No access
  6. Open-Sum Faith, Open-Sum Community No access
2. 1. What Congregational Asset Mapping Is, and Is Not No access
  2. Recapping Lessons from the Quick and Simple Experience No access
  3. Strategy for Open-Sum Action No access
  4. After the Quick and Simple Experience No access
3. 1. Stewardship No access
  2. Congregational Development No access
  3. Faith Partnerships No access
  4. Compassion and Justice in Public Life No access
  5. Evangelism No access
1. The Fullness of Grace: The Parable of the Talents No access
2. The Wholeness of Grace: Psalm 23 No access
3. The Presence of Grace: The Loaves and the Fishes No access
4. Coda No access
Appendix: Resources for Further Exploration No access Pages 146 - 148