Your congregation is teeming with people already doing community ministry. They just dont know it yet. This book knocks down the church walls that keep parishioner ministry hidden from congregational view. Do parishioners know that their already-mission counts as ministry in your congregation? Parishioners are already on mission raising their children, caring for elderly parents, volunteering in the community, supporting neighbors in crisis, serving on charity boards, donating to food banks, and fundraising for important causes. This book counts this already-mission as Christian service. When parishioners sacrifice their time, talents, and treasures to be the good news for others, they are on mission for God. Even if they dont know it. Already missional congregations help people connect their personal mission with their faith. Already missional congregations see parishioners as community partners in ministry. This book provides the steps needed to connect your congregations mission strategy with the rich and varied already-mission lived daily by parishioners. Already Missional is your congregations guide to being a community partner. A missional must-read! Arising from Brad Morrisons effective congregational leadership, Already Missional is an engaging and delightful resource designed to help Christian communities develop a missional imagination. Drawing on the strengths of the gathered community, Morrison offers an impressive and theologically rich toolkit for partnering with the Spirit of God at work in the neighborhood.--Ross Lockhart, Associate Professor, St. Andrews Hall, Vancouver; Director of the Centre for Missional LeadershipAlready Missional rises from the new landscape of Gods love at work in the world. It offers a practical tool to both chart and travel a course of deep meaning and vital mission. It provides a way to unleash peoples passion and gifts and then, in love, do something about it!--Robert Dalgleish, Executive Direc
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