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Development Workshops Set

Adapted from the Office of Public Affairs

Called to Transformation is a partnership between the Episcopal Church and Episcopal Relief & Development. Four workshops will train leaders in methods and tools to enhance local ministry and mission.

“Training people to use Asset-Based Community Development to approach ministry switches the discernment to an asset view — what we have — from one focused on what we don’t have,” said the Rev. Canon E. Mark Stevenson, domestic poverty missioner for the church.

Four workshops have been scheduled in 2016:

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