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The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

This resource identifies the church as a solution to cultural individualism, arguing that...

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Where the Cross Meets the Street: What Happens to the Neighborhood When God is at the Center

This resource offers inspiration and wisdom for leaders who minister in under-resourced...

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Leading Missional Change: Move Your Congregation from Resistant to Re-Energized

This book provides insight on why congregations don't want to change, how to utilize trust to...

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Choosing Change: How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future

This book will help congregational leaders move their churches towards change through...

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Story & Narrative | The Commons Social Change Library

This online library collection supports congregational leaders doing community ministry by...

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Reframing guidelines: A step-by-step approach to building a narrative change campaign

This online toolkit, published for the project Reframe the Debate: New Migration Narratives...

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Memories, Hopes, and Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry, Missional Engagement, and...

This resource details the impact of Appreciative Inquiry and how to create congregational...

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Finding Our Story: Narrative Leadership and Congregational Change

This collection of essays by various congregational consultants helps congregations...

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Interim Ministry: Positive Change in Times of Transition

This resource offers a comprehensive review of interim ministry, and includes strategies and...

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Positive Change for Congregations

This article summarizes the experience of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations in...

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