{"product_id":"recovering-abundance-twelve-practices-for-small-town-leaders-paperback","title":"Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndy Stanton-Henry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders \u003c\/i\u003einvites readers to live a new story--to join a movement of renewal for small towns and rural communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndy 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 small-town and rural leaders and communities, and can be applied today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough these twelve practices, Stanton-Henry helps readers tune in to an alternative story, one he discovered in his own rural Ohio community. Yes, he saw the commonly lamented decline and devastation that have brought suffering to rural Americans and that seem to foster resentment and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHowever, as he dug deeper into the stories of his neighbors, he began to notice that small towns and rural regions are working. They are working to build inclusive, thriving, local economies, to weave a welcoming social fabric in their region, to cocreate a positive future--following the practices he explores in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecovering Abundance \u003c\/i\u003eis a new story about the agency and creativity of what Stanton-Henry calls \"ordinary leaders,\" not a story about scarcity and deprivation but one of abundance and generosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766962651424,"sku":"9781506474007","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e59bf1e1ddff330b38e42a41a2a7e733.webp?v=1780301889","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/recovering-abundance-twelve-practices-for-small-town-leaders-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}