Holy Currency Exchange: 101 Stories, Songs, Actions, and Visions for Missional and Sustainable Ministries - Softcover

Eric H F Law

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0827215010 ISBN 13: 9780827215016

Publisher: APG Sales & Distribution, 2016

Synopsis

Eric Law's foundational Holy Currencies (2013) demonstrated a new way ministries can think about the resources needed to do their work in their communities. Law's follow-up book, Holy Currency Exchange, shares a variety of tools for thinking differently about how those resources can mobilize ministries into new life, mission, and vitality. Examples include a restaurant ministry, programs for youth, an emergency rent loan fund for people in the neighborhood, worship service in Mexican restaurants, and many more. What could your ministry do?

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About the Author

Eric H. F. Law, an Episcopalian priest, is the founder and executive director of the Kaleidoscope Institute, the mission of which is to create inclusive and sustainable churches and communities. For more than 20 years, he has provided transformative and comprehensive training and resources for churches and ministries in all the major church denominations in the United States and Canada. He writes a weekly blog called The Sustainist: Spirituality for Sustainable Communities in a Networked World. Visit his blog at htBC://ehflaw.typepad.com/blog/.

Review

I am a huge fan of the mind and heart of Eric H.F. Law. He has offered the Church a special lens through which to look at the blessed challenge of building multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural communities of faith that genuinely honor the gift of diversity. I have had the pleasure of listening in at conferences and other gatherings in which Eric tested the power of Holy Currencies. The practical collection of stories, songs, actions, and visions that are gathered in Holy Currency Exchange are a pastor s dream. Here is where the giftedness of an artist, excellent listening skills, and a nimble mind have been combined to share stories, poetry, music, and practical tools and exercises that can transform our ministries. Each clergy should have this on her shelf. --The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church, and host, Just Faith at ShiftMSNBC

Elucidating! In Holy Currencies we learned the 'why' of an alternate way to understand, evaluate, and cultivate a community s gifts for effective deployment. Now in Holy Currency Exchange, we are given direct examples of the 'how' to route our way forward and spark the imagination. Thank you, Eric, for another valuable instrument in the leader s tool box. --Bruce A. Barkhauer, director, Center for Faith and Giving. Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

As churches I serve work to make sense of their ministry in today s much changed world, Holy Currencies is the book that I have found most helpful to them. Especially when they seek to do work and ministry in an adaptive way (vs a technical fix), they can end up stuck, not knowing what to do next. Holy Currencies is a great tool for assessment and engagement. Holy Currency Exchange brings the work of Holy Currencies to light and to additional practical reality. It is written to be pondered over, considered for a time. You may not agree with everything he says. You may not be able to use all the beautiful music in this resource. But you will find much to consider. You will find wonderful testimonies of God s work and grace. And you may even find that you are challenged to think in Holy Currencies Exchange. You ll also find resources to make it possible to use it in your life and ministry. --Marcia J. Patton, Executive Minister, Evergreen Association of American Baptist Churches

Edition details

• Publisher: APG Sales & Distribution
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0827215010
• ISBN 13: 9780827215016
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176