TEAR Group Study
Vocation - what does it look like to follow the call of Jesus within the context of our work and particularly as we are called to steward our resources towards a better tomorrow of justice and renewal?
STAKEHOLDER MAP
Your idea isn’t developed in a vacuum. It exists within a larger system. Within that larger system there is a group of stakeholders who affect and influence your idea, as well as those who will be influenced and affected by it. The stakeholder map is a simple but...
Redemptive Design Framework
Seed’s foundational belief is that all Gods people are called to be agents of redemptive change in whatever contexts God has placed them. The problem is that most current approaches by Christians to engaging the public space are: Highly reactive & negative –...
REDEMPTIVE DESIGN CANVAS
This is the foundation of who you are as an individual or organisation. It is your sense of why you were created and what role(s) you play in the world. It flows out of your story (see Purpose Storyboard tool) and is worked out in a context. We believe you flourish...
PURPOSE STORYBOARD
Our Foundation for purpose – Who God made me to be. We often think that discovering purpose is about working out what we should do. What we do is important, but the foundation for purpose is about who we are not what we do. God created and calls us to be someone...
PERSONA TOOL
When you start designing a redemptive solution one of the key principles is knowing who you are designing for. A foundation for good design is that you start with your customers and create according to their needs and what they value, rather than starting with your...
MY PURPOSE: IMAGINED FUTURE
Spend some time outlining your aspirations and dreams for the future. Consider your life as you would like it to be 5-10 years from now. Some suggestions on how to do this are: Draw a picture that captures the main elements of that imagined future. It can be a...
ASSET MAP
This tool is one of a number in our Redemptive Design toolkit that is designed to give you a clear understanding of the Current Reality of your context. In particular, it sits alongside an analysis of the felt needs/issues that your beneficiaries are facing. Asset...
Robert Banks Six Strands of Work
Our God-given purpose connects to our context, but in order to fully understand this connection we must first understand the ways that our own work connects with God’s work in the world. Robert Banks, in his book titled “Faith Goes To Work” says: “Few Christians see...
The Lawrie Styles, Reventure, Faith and Word Fellowship.
The Reventure Board has initiated the Lawrie Styles, Reventure Faith and Work Fellowship with the principal objective of perpetuating and honouring Lawrie Style’s legacy.
SPOTLIGHT
Reflecting with JB
When Seed was launched back in 2015, we wanted to invest in the formation of Jesus followers to help them make a real difference in the world – to move beyond belief. And we were confident that if we could help people design and create tangible expressions of the way of Jesus and the Christian story, then we would see lives and communities start to flourish. There was A LOT we didn’t know about how to do that, yet in the midst of the unknowns, there were two vivid pictures of what Seed could be that were at the front of my mind. The first picture was an incubator for entrepreneurs. We were blessed to pilot our first incubator in October 2015, and we have been privileged to work with entrepreneurs since. They have remained a key strand of our work, as other parts of Seed, like our Consulting and our work with emerging marketplace leaders, have developed. The second picture was a room full of passionate Christians, from a variety of sectors, collaborating together to design tangible solutions to pressing social or cultural issues. For 7 years this picture has sat in the background of Seed’s thinking. We’ve not wanted to waste people’s time having conversation about issues unless we were confident that we could facilitate those conversations moving to creative action. The highlight of 2022, for me, was seeing this picture become reality at our Seed Summit in October. Working alongside our partners, with people from the marketplace, community sector and church, our amazing team put the Redemptive Design toolkit to work, designing collaborative solutions to issues facing young people and marginalised workers. We explored real-world possibilities for helping churches work together to more effectively pastor their city. We should not have been surprised that when we paid attention to God collectively, the Spirit was present, both enlightening our minds and enlivening our hearts. Having ‘’seen’’ this in my imagination for so long, ‘’seeing’’ it come to reality was a true gift. This was faith coming alive in the world. And it was beautiful to see.
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