Most leadership programs begin with a plan. The Rooted Path™ begins with FORMATION. These nine steps are not a curriculum. They are a path. Each step prepares you for the next. Every community moves through them at its own pace. The order matters.

For two decades, congregations covered walls with sticky notes. They gathered their people, named their gifts, and felt something real shift in the room. Then, six months later, they found themselves exactly where they started. The notes were gone. The momentum had faded. And no one could explain why.

The problem was never the mapping. Asset mapping is a powerful tool. It has its place inside The Rooted Path™. But a tool placed in unprepared hands produces excitement, not transformation. What the field kept missing was what had to come first. FORMATION is not the warmup for the work. FORMATION is the work. Asset mapping is subordinate to it. Until a congregation has been spiritually and organizationally prepared to receive what the mapping reveals, the wall fills up and the room empties and nothing moves.

These nine steps are built around that conviction. Every step before the mapping prepares the ground. Every step after ensures what was discovered does not stay on a wall. The sequence is not incidental. The sequence is the point.

Formation is the soil. Asset mapping is the seed. The field stalled because for twenty years the church kept planting without preparing the ground.

You are about to see the structure.

Move through it with intention.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱

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