by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Implement-Operations, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum, Media & Communications
Global Kingdom Intellectual Capital – Worth Saving? It was a steamy, late nineteenth century day and noise on the docks in Bombay was deafening. Shouts of stevedores mixing with the cry of local vendors and the screech of overburdened block and tackle. Two British...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Learn-Getting-Started, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
Effective partnerships are built on trust, openness, and mutual concern. Partnerships are more than coordination, planning, strategies, and tactics. The heart of the Gospel is restored in relationships. Lasting partnerships need a facilitator or coordinator-someone...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Evaluate, Collaborate-Implement-Operations, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
We were originally designed to live in open, transparent, trusting relationships (Genesis 2-3). Because of that, partnership/network is based on God’s character, it’s not an idea invented in business. It is a visible manifestation of the heart of the Good News –...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Implement-Case Studies, Collaborate-Learn-Essentials, 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-Learn-Essentials, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
We want a vision that unifies and motivates us in collaboration that empowers significant spiritual breakthroughs only possible by working together effectively. We want a process which is seriously prayer based, guided and empowered by the Holy Spirit – not just...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Learn-Essentials, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum, Media & Communications
Partnership or network working meetings present a real communications challenge – for the facilitator, facilitation team, and the participants. How to increase understanding, a sense of trust, develop consensus, encourage camaraderie, and see practical, high-value...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Implement-Case Studies, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
Core Idea The migration of world population into the cities is creating unprecedented challenges for planners, governments, educators, sociologists, and business — not to mention the impact on individual lives, families, and communities of all sorts. Cities are...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Implement-Operations, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
Collaborative partnerships/networks do not spontaneously come to life. Neither do they continue to function effectively all by themselves. It takes tremendous dedication not only to launch a collaborative initiative, but even more so to lead one. When a collaborative...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Learn-Essentials, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
Networks have enormous, ‘game changing’ potential. They can re-write the future. In an increasingly interconnected world they hey can help realize truly impossible dreams far beyond the capacity of any individual or organization. Yet many well...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Evaluate, Collaborate-Implement-Operations, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
The world is awash in change. Some say that there’s not been a period like this in the last 100 years. Whether it is the raw elements of dealing directly with a pandemic or facing the cascading social, political, economic, organizational implications – the sheer...
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-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-Plan-Curriculum
For nearly 50 years, along with numerous colleagues I have been developing missional partnerships around the world. At the conclusion of the first 30 years we saw that, while the circumstances were often sharply different, reasons for success were consistent. Here...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Evaluate, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum, Collaborate-Plan-Local-Church
Your Local Church: Effective People Group Engagement ___ Have identified a committed team to pray for the church’s initiative with unreached/ unengaged people. ___ Have communicated with the whole church about this initiative and feel they are engaged in the...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Learn-Getting-Started, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
Before We Start: If you have talked with most of the significant people in your field of interest and have a sense that you know the primary issues; that your know how the significant people feel about this topic – its challenges and priorities – then just skip this...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum, Collaborate-Plan-Missions
Background/Context For many years, with colleagues around the world, I have worked to bring God’s people into whole, collaborative relationships. These initiatives have consistently sought to empower effective evangelization, development of national church...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Learn-Essentials, Collaborate-Learn-Getting-Started, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
What is your big ministry dream or vision? Can you do it alone? If you need to work with others these six pages can give you a simple ‘road map’ to plan a working consultation that can really move you forward. The specifics of your dream may require that you add...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Learn-Getting-Started, Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum
Guiding Partnership Principles Ministry partnership is a process, not an event. You can kill a Partnership by just calling a meeting without doing proper advance work. Effective Partnerships are built on relationships of trust. Take time to get to know the potential...
by Phill Butler | Collaborate-Plan-Curriculum, Media & Communications
Phill Butler shares the story of what happened when a group of ministries forming a new partnership discovered how much unnecessary duplication existed in their work. Video Topics: Partnership Essentials Partnership Operations Partnership Curriculm Videos: Media...
