Asset-mapping is a simple tool that can transform the way your congregation thinks about possibilities for new ministry and new impact. Focusing on the giftedness of your people and the assets you possess (rather than on all of the things you lack) can lead to new ideas and new energy for moving forward. The tool can be used in any context and with any size group. Once you identify your own assets, you can combine these with assets you discover in the community around your church (through a listening process or community asset-mapping) to develop ministry that fits the context of your own congregation as well as the surrounding neighborhood.

Joy Skjegstad, author of “Winning Grants to Strengthen Your Ministry” (Alban Institute 2007), “Starting A Nonprofit At Your Church” (Alban Institute 2002), and “Seven Creative Models for Community Ministry” (Judson Press, 2013), is a national speaker and consultant on nonprofit management and ministry development. She has more than 30 years of experience starting and growing nonprofit organizations and church-based community ministry programs, including serving as the Executive Director of the Park Avenue Foundation at Park Avenue United Methodist Church and as the founder of the Institute for Ministry Leaders, a university-based training program that builds the management capacity of churches and other ministry organizations. She also served as the President of Sanctuary Community Development Corporation and has held a variety of other leadership positions with nonprofits in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

This webinar was originally broadcast on February 6, 2020.