Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders

Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town LeadersRecovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small Town Leaders invites readers to live a new story to join a movement of renewal for small towns and rural communities. Andy Stanton Henry provides twelve civic spiritual practices, rooted in Jesus's miracle among the multitude, that rural and small town leaders can use to renew their congregations and communities. Each chapter explores how one practice was demonstrated in the story, has been embodied in

wonderings of two friends as they seek to walk in faithfulness to God

with that Quaker understanding of the gospel as a lens

serving as a compass that points the church to the future and offers us a path toward meaningful social change and a more faithful witness to the way of Jesus

but the "more is better" messaging of modern culture tells us otherwise

The Inward Journey

Oscar Lugusa writes similarly about Friends Theological College: a physical location where the academic study of the way of Christ is expressed through the Christian sharing of joys and sorrows

I became inspired to write about Patches when I realized how well she exemplified the Quaker core values or “SPICES

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especially in North America

Pages: 386

Including thirty full-color masterpieces of Western art

it looks at the poverty of relationships between man and God