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The Living Stones Project
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At the core of The Living Stones Project is practical asset-based planning, or "assetmapping".
Asset-mapping, cultivates the space and time when all the participants committed to a groupʼs goals come together to discover and organize their assets (useful gifts), and to take action together on the next steps that seem evident from the mapping exercise.
Four Simple Actions
Asset-mapping involves 4 simple actions - simple meaning uncomplicated. First, we remind our selves how and where God has called us. Second, we identify our "assets" - individually and corporately. Third, we connect the dots - brainstorm and show possible paths of action. Finally, weʼll decide on the pleasing actions for Godʼs mission by placing a stone in support
and agreeing to be a part of the plan and work.
Whatʼs an "asset"?
An asset is a gift thatʼs useful. (Gifts are given and received, and thatʼs what makes them
gifts. When theyʼre put to use - to Godʼs purposes - then theyʼre assets.) Your personal assets are considerable - you serve a generous God, after all! - and so you already have available more than enough to accomplish Godʼs will for your life and for this congregation. Assets include: physical assets, individual assets, associations and relationships, institutions and larger bodies, economic resources.
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