During Lent, we will take part in a diocesan effort to identify our spiritual gifts. Using this online tool from the ELCA (we will also have paper copies available in church), we will seek to discern how God is at work in our lives.
Take a moment to find out your gifts! Then, on Friday March 20th at 7pm, we will gather as a parish family to discuss what we discovered, and to play Behold, Become, Begin: The Stewardship Game, especially created for the diocese to help each of us
Our deputies playing the game at Diocesan Convention.
explore new and creative ways to put our spiritual gifts to work. Each game set includes 40 “scenario” cards, featuring a variety of different congregation-related challenges. The game also includes a spiritual gifts map showing 20 separate gifts (from Administration and Artistry to Wisdom and Writing), and a 20-sided die. In the lightning round, players explore and get more comfortable with their own spiritual gifts. In the next round, they apply their personal spiritual gifts the scenarios described on the cards, and in the final round, players throw the die and are challenged to apply whatever gift determined by that throw.
Later in Easter, we will take this one step further to discern our spiritual gifts as a parish, and how we can use these gifts to become all God hopes for us. So take this first step – complete the assessment. It only takes a few minutes, and you may just be surprised by what you find!
