Wow!  Having a light dinner, mostly raw (yeah!) with hospitality coordinator Louise Stahnke and her husband Mark yielded good fellowship and more conversation about community. They are a gold mine of information having moved here sight unseen about 25 years ago.  They recommend the book “Healing the Heart of Your Church: How Church Leaders Can Break the Cycle of Historic Corporate Dysfunction” by Dr. Kenneth Quick.  Learn more here

I took this free church assessment and it was very eye-opening. 

http://blessingpoint.org/churchscan-results/?churchscan=zrnjvq

Louise and Mark agreed that this process helped their community and church enormously.  Makes sense–healing past trauma will release our church to be all that God wants it to be. I can’t wait to study this. But I am leaving day after tomorrow–so much to do–so little time. I am so glad to have this book.