Tag Archives: Motivation

4 Keys To Keeping Network Leaders Moving

This collection of best practices addresses the leadership challenge of how to keep a growing network moving and its leaders engaged and fulfilling their commitments. Drawn from the Synergy Commons Peer Learning Cohorts, this document offers four key strategies and over 30 field-tested ideas network leaders can use in their own networks…   

Better Together? The mutual benefit between churches and networks

Better Together?

There is a huge disconnect between local churches and mission networks. Many international mission networks primarily involve representatives of mission agencies. Few networks proactively and strategically involve local churches. An excellent article by Ellen Livingood of Catalyst Services offers some valuable advice for network leaders, church leaders, and denomination / mission agency leaders on the mutual benefit of involving local churches in mission networks…  

Mission Networks: Connecting the Global Church

Mission Networks - Connecting the Global Church

In our interconnected and globalized world, mission networks are playing an increasingly important role in shaping Great Commission strategies. Through networks, ministry leaders from around the world are connecting with others of similar vision to collectively address some of the greatest mission challenges and opportunities in the world today. Like never before in history, God is uniting his Church to reach the unreached. Those actively participating in networks are moving beyond talk about collaboration to real action with others who share a similar mission vision. Participation in networks is becoming a high priority for many mission leaders and organizations, resulting in significant benefits to them and to the cause of Christ worldwide…  

Network Profile: Bridges Training Network South Asia (BTNSA)

This short video profiles the BTNSA – Bridges Training Network South Asia. This mission network is focused on ministry among oral-culture peoples. Over the years, BTNSA has grown to include dozens of different ministries and organizations across South Asia. In this video, members of the BTNSA facilitation team share about the impact the network has had on themselves as leaders and on their own ministry environments. Effective networks often have three levels of impact…  

Collaboration: Reaching The Unreached Through On-Field Partnerships

Based on a True Story of a Multi-Organizational Team

This 4 minute motion-graphic film, in English, Chinese, and Korean, follows the story of two workers who came to reach an unreached people group with the Gospel. With so few workers compared to the size of the people group, they pray together and get the idea to find other workers with the same vision to form a partnership on the field…  

Partnership Case Study: NEPR (The North End Partnership For Renewal)

Case Study - NEPR

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 NEPR is fictional, the content and characters of the story are drawn from numerous real-world examples of church/community partnerships. The story is set in a major metropolitan area of the United States, where the characters collaborate together over several years toward the goal of addressing major social issues in their city…