Category Archives: Story

Partnership: God’s Mandate for Success

In this article on the importance of partnership in missions, Ebenezer Sundar Raj explores some of the barriers to Kingdom partnership that the church faces in India….

Stay True to your Network’s God-Given Vision

In this network leader video, Chandan Kumar Sah shares his experience of the importance to stay with the calling that God gave your network. He urges you not to move away from that vision, even though the alternative options may offer more resources…

Want Impact? Networks Trump Organizations

David Haskell shares a personal experience about the power of a dream, an impossible situation, and the capacity for networks to achieve what no one organization can do alone. This is an inspiring story of what can happen when networks are formed and effectively lead…..

Transformational Networks – A Global Strategy

In this video from Resonate Global Mission, CRC missionaries share stories about the network facilitation approach they use in their work with churches, church and community leaders, and local ministries to see community transformation…

Readiness for Partnership – Russ Simons

In this Leadership Lesson video, Russ Simons discusses the importance of being ready to partner and not rushing the exploration stage. He discusses how the exploration stage can often feel like a waste of time, but that this phase is a critical part of preparing to partner…

Phill Butler: Partnership Essentials

Recorded 30 January 2016 at the 2016 Blue Med Regional Consultation in Malta, this 10-part video playlist by Phill Butler focuses on ten partnership essentials fundamental to healthy networks and effective network leadership…

The 18th Camel

What does a network facilitator or partnership facilitator actually do? They are not “bosses” in the traditional sense. Nor are they mere administrators. No, a facilitator helps the entire group stay focused on their commonly shared goals and find productive ways to work together. Many times, groups get “stuck” in the “desert of creativity” – going around in circles without any clear path toward fruitful collaboration. It is the job of the neutral facilitator to help their groups find common ground and move forward together. This is sometimes difficult, but other times it is simply a matter of helping people see things from a different perspective. Here is a story that illustrates this well. It is a story about a camel…

Finishing The Task: A UUPG Partnership Story

Originally shared at the December 2015 Finishing the Task Conference, this video captures the inspiring God story of how a successful UUPG partnership in Nepal got started. Told by Tim Taylor, this story demonstrates the importance of partnership as a means for engaging the unengaged and unreached people groups of the world…

Partnership Case Study: STEM (The Sub-Saharan Technology Evangelism Movement)

The team at visionSynergy have put together a fictional case study on collaboration designed to show the step-by-step process and key principles of developing missional partnerships. While the story of STEM is fictional, the content and characters of the story are drawn from numerous real-world examples of grassroots partnerships. The story is set in the country of Nigeria, where the characters collaborate together over several years toward the goal of reaching Nigeria with the Gospel through Internet-based evangelism on a scale never seen before…

John Robb ~ “… we noticed a solitary woman fishing”

During a visit to an Asian country a few years ago, I happened to stroll down to the harbor along with some local friends. As we ventured out on to one of its piers overlooking the water, we noticed a solitary woman fishing, hunched over a single pole, its line descending into the murky depths below…

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