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Vocation in Cities
Missional church leaders seek deep community transformation that advances a fortaste of God’s Kingdom. Too often, though, we fail to deploy our congregants’ unique vocational power strategically, creatively, and effectively toward that bold end. Equipping members for living missionally in and through their work is an essential strategy for “rejoicing our cities” (Proverbs 11:10). That vision demands that we draw thoroughly on all our congregants have to offer—their vocational expertise, networks, influence, platforms, and skills.
Dr. Amy L. Sherman is a Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, where she directs the Center on Faith in Communities. CFIC provides training, technical assistance, and consulting to faith-based and community based social service providers and to religious congregations desiring to invest more effectively in their neighborhoods. Prior to her work with CFIC, Sherman founded and served as Executive Director of Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries, a holistic, cross-cultural, whole-family, church-based outreach in an urban neighborhood of Charlottesville, VA. Sherman is the author of six books, most recently Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good (IVP, 2011). Her 75+ articles have appeared in religious and secular periodicals including The Public Interest, Policy Review, First Things, Christianity Today, Philanthropy, The American Enterprise, The Christian Century, Prism, and Books & Culture.
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