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What is a Complementary Partnership

It is a long-term alliance of two or more organizations that share complementary gifts and abilities to achieve a common purpose. This kind of partnership is defined as a relationship between ministries and people who share common aspirations, strive to achieve them together, and do so in a spirit of cooperation and brotherly love. By this definition, partnership involves making the partner an extension of your own ministry

What is a developmental partnership?

If development is growth in its self-developing capabilities, and partnership is the mutual sharing of resources for a common goal, then a developmental partnership in Christian ministry is a cooperative relationship between two autonomous bodies whereby each enables the other to grow in its capacity to initiate and carry out change for the sake of the gospel.

Developmental and all partnerships have three characteristics in common: results, relationship, and vision.

  • Results describe a partnership’s capacity to deliver tangible outcomes
  • Relationship is the means by which trust, communication, and collaboration are made possible.
  • Vision is a compelling picture of what the partnership can achieve and how it is going to get there.  [1]

[1] Rickett, Daniel.  Building Strategic Relationships: A Practical Guide to Partnering With Non – Western Missions.  Partners International: Winepress Publishing, 2003. p. 15-19

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.

 

 

 


 
   

 

 

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Dr. James King [jking at GPTE.org]
Revised: 05/22/06 18:34:36 -0400.
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