Development Checklists – 11 Qualities that Help Build
Capacity
Do we separate our contributions from
our need to feel good about ourselves?
Do we understand the needs as our
partners see them?
Are we familiar with the context in
which the needs exist?
Do we understand the scope of the
needs?
Do we have the capacity to help meet
the needs?
Are we building our partner’s capacity
to do things themselves?
Are we enabling our partners to
maximize their own resources?
Do the partners make their own east
Asians and chart their own course?
Are the partners well respected within
the wider Christian community?
Have we reviewed and justified the
level of our financial contribution?
Have we taken time with our partners
to listen to God?[13]
[13] Rickett, Daniel. Building
Strategic Relationships: A Practical Guide to Partnering
With Non – Western Missions. Partners International:
Winepress Publishing, 2003. p. 69-70.
Global Ministry
1 Cor. 12:12-13 For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For also by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, even all were made to drink into one Spirit.
