Assessment Checklists A - Ten Signs of Effective Resource Sharing

1. Does the outside agency avoid setting up programs without first consulting with the local Christian community?
2. Does the outsider inquire of local Christian leaders about what needs to be done?
3. Is the outsider guarded about the use of strategies that depend upon expensive technology that is otherwise beyond the capacity of local ministries? 
4. Is the outside are cautious about the possible negative effects of his relative affluence on the communication of the gospel?
5. Does the outsider avoid exploiting the local situation to promote his or her own ministry?
6. Does the outsider launch funding programs only after establishing the trustworthiness of a local ministry to receive and handle outside funds?
7. Is the outside are keenly aware that outside support can potentially destroy the selfhood of the recipients?
8. But is the outsider aware of how foreign support may dampen reliance on local funding?
9. Does the outsider a void recruiting local Christians and paying them salaries far above local standards?

10. Does the outsider guard against taking on so many projects that he cannot provide satisfactory attention and accountability to this one?[9]

Assessment Checklists B - 10 Signs of Effective Resource Sharing

1. Are local Christian leaders generally in favor of the idea?
2. Does the outside support enhance the recipient’s capacity to make its own decisions and chart its own course?
3. Does the outside support in no way limit the recipient’s ability to collaborate with other local Christian communities?
4. But does the outside support enhance the recipient’s sense of selfhood and dignity as co-laborers in the work of the gospel?
5. Does the recipient ministry reflect dependence upon God and not money as the source of ministry success?
6. Is the proportion of outside support well below the level of support from within the region?
7. Does the recipient ministry avoid partiality in its stewardship of outside support? Does it avoid showing favoritism to ethnic groups, churches, or individuals?
8. Does the alliance implied by the outside support in no way a lean eight Christians from their local community?
9. Does the recipient insist on sending money to the overseeing body of a church or mission rather than to an individual?
10. Is the program and money for the program from different sources, rather than both from a single outside source?[10]

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