Recovering Abundance

<p><i>Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders </i>invites readers to live a new story--to join a movement of renewal for small towns and rural communities.</p><p>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 small-town and rural leaders and communities and can be applied today.</p><p>Through 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.</p><p>However 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.</p><p><i>Recovering Abundance </i>is 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.</p>