by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Plan-Local-Church, Collaborate-Plan-Missions
Check List As your church considers some type of action that we feel calls we to engage with others (churches, organizations, community entities, etc.), here is a simple check list to help we think through and, possibly, strengthen wer initiative. We: Have...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Implement-Case Studies, Collaborate-Implement-Operations, Collaborate-Learn-Getting-Started, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
What’s the Challenge? All cultures have both idealized and realized values. These values represent the way things ought to be and the way they really are. Near the top of the list of Christian idealized values is the vision Jesus gives His followers in John...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Implement-Case Studies, Collaborate-Plan-Local-Church
The Good News A ‘blue collar’ city of about 200,000, third largest city in the State, known for its railroads, deep water shipping, forestry businesses, small manufacturing industry, and a large recent immigrant population. In this context a few pastors...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
For this partnership formation meeting in Central Asia, they came from Sweden, Norway, Korea, Singapore, Germany, England, South Africa, America They were Baptists, Presbyterians, Assemblies of God, Methodists, and the list went on. One of the key principles for...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Implement-Case Studies
The partnership had been born several years earlier. It was focused on a previously unreached people group and was still working on initiatives together. In the midst of the partnership’s annual working meeting on a Sunday, we decided to go to one of the churches...
