1. LOGO Discovering Your Natural Talents “LIVING YOUR STRENGTHS”

3. “Living your strengths” RESEARCH & STRENGTHS PHILOSOPHY

4. “Living your strengths”  I have carried you – G. Rochard -1. I have carried you on eagle’s wings. I have lifted you high above the heavens. I have made pierce through the sky far and beyond. -Chorus: I have touched your life and touched you; I have filled you with my presence. I am your God waiting now on your response. repeat -3. I have chosen you before you were born (Jr. 1:4); I have carved your name in the palm of my hand (Is. 49:2); I have given you all that you can and ought to be (Is. 48:17)

5. “Living your strengths” “In my congregation I have the opportunity to do what I do best”

6. “LIVING YOUR STRENGTHS”

7. Research shows: - 30 YEARS - 2 MILLION PEOPLE YOU WILL BE MOST SUCCESSFUL AT WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU FOCUS ON BUILDING YOUR GREATEST NATURAL ABILITIES not your weaknesses.

8. “LIVING YOUR STRENGTHS”  Matt. 25: 14-30 – The parable of the talents “Imagine someone who, before going abroad, summoned his servants to entrust his property to them. He gave five talents of silver to one servant, two talents to another servant, and one talent to a third, to each according to his ability; and he went away…”

9. How did you become involved in your area of ministry? Share in small groups how you became involved in ministry. Were any of you uncomfortable with what you were asked to do? And if yes, did you shy away from that ministry? Were any of you comfortable with your ministry area? Can you say why? Is there an area of ministry you feel drawn to? (Someone to make notes and share the stories)

10. What are your talents and how do you develop them? A strength = is a natural ability to do consistently well at some activity.

11. What are talents and how do you develop them? Talent Knowledge Skill STRENGTH

12. What are talents and how do you develop them? Talent (teaching) Knowledge (facts – Math or English) Skill (formulas or sentence construction) STRENGTH

13. What are talents and how do you develop them? Talent (teaching) Knowledge (facts – Faith) Skill (public speaking + story telling) STRENGTH

14. What are talents and how do you develop them?

17. Theology of Strengths

18. FINDING WHAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU!

19. BE NATURALLY WHO GOD MADE YOU TO BE

20. FINDING WHAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU & OTHERS! 1 Cor. 12: 12-31 – Analogy of the Body “As the body is one, having many members, and all the members, while being many, form one body, so it is with Christ. All of us whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, have been baptized in one Spirit to form one body… The body has not just one member, but many. If the foot should say, “I do not belong to the body for I am not a hand”, it would be wrong: it is part of the body! … if all the body were an eye, how would we hear?...” ONE BODY, MANY MEMBERS, DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS

21. FINDING WHAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU & OTHERS!

22. Acts 6: 1- 4 In those days, as the number of disciples grew, the so-called Hellenists complained against the so- called Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. So the twelve summoned the whole body of disciples together and said, “It is not right that we should neglect the Word of God to serve at tables. So, friends, choose from among yourselves seven respected men full of the Spirit, and wisdom, that we may appoint them to this task. As for us we shall give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word”.

23. STRENGTH BASED COMMUNITIES INSIDE AN ENGAGED CONGREGATION – A CASE STUDY

24. LOGO LIVE YOUR STRENGTHS!!!