Episode 256: Asset-Based Community Development with Meghan Killingsworth

Description

This podcast episode is an interview of Pastor Meghan Killingsworth of First United Methodist Church of Sanford in Florida about how she incorporates asset-based community development (ABCD) into ministry. ABCD is based on the belief that the New Testament message is to minister with people instead of to people. Pastor Killingsworth suggests that shifting from a needs-based ministry to ABCD joins congregants and community members together in a way that allows all participants to bring their respective gifts. With anecdotal examples, identification of potential roadblocks and how to overcome them, and discussion of the overlap with liberation theory, Pastor Killingsworth helps congregational and community listeners understand the potential that can be achieved using an ABCD approach to ministry.

Features

• Transcript
• Time-stamped chapters
• 35:38 long

Practical Applications

• Share this podcast episode with your ministry council to introduce how asset-based community development works as your congregational leaders consider how switching to this type of ministry model might work in your community.
• Listen to this podcast with your spiritual life group to encourage looking at others for their gifts instead of their needs in order to approach working in ministry with others in a way that gives dignity to all.