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Celebrating God's Abundance
for You and Us
 Don't miss our third Sunday gathering of
The Living Stones Project.
As we've gathered during the month of May, the Vestry and Fr. Bill expect everyone to see the wonderful abundance and opportunities God offers us.
This third Sunday of May during the fellowship after worship, we'll share in 30 minutes of table conversations to celebrate and sharing the gifts and
resources (personal & community assets) of abilities, passions, associations &
relationships, materials resources, financial resources, which can we
be shared. This Sunday offers a bit of catch up for those that have not been able to share in the previous Sundays.
This Week's Event Info
Celebrating God's Abundance of You and US
in the Parish Hall following worship
May 23, 2009
St. Peter's Church
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What is
The Living Stones Project?
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The short answer...
It's our church community celebrating and discerning together the abundant gifts God has given us, and the manner we intend to respond to God with those abundant gifts.
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More about The Living Stones Project
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At the core of The Living Stones Project is practical asset-based planning, or "asset mapping".
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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