The Art of Community

I loved working with the Church and Community Workers of the Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. Most recently this occurred March 2-5, 2013 at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. There were about 40 our us gathered. It was a continuing education event for them. Our intent was to learn and practice more participative leadership together so that they could apply and use it in their varied settings. Inspired leadership in people like Kathleen Masters, Cathy Whitlach and Judy Chung to put support behind such a gathering and a third in a series of training events over the last year. Inspiring participants.

There are many levels of harvest. The Art of Community is the name of the article that Marielynn Dunlap Grace, one of our participants, wrote. I love how she captured the core narrative and story.

A few additional harvests are below:

Drew Parsons — Hambone for CCW (0:53)

Circle Dance (1:29)

Becky Parsons — CCW AoH at Work (1:27 — battery died :()

Linda Stransky — CCW AoH at Work (3:20)

Judy Chung — CCW AoH at Work (1:27)

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