Partnership Curriculum
VIDEOS
This 10-part video series from Phill Butler is an in-depth workshop covering a wide range of topics with many insights into effective collaboration and partnerships. It was 0riginally presented for the YWAM Impact World Tour training event in October of 2011 and includes more than 12 hours of video.
Session #1: Rationale and Tools for Successful Partnerships
Session #1 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #2: Basic Principles for Collaborations and Partnerships
Session #2 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #3: Best Uses of Resources
Session #3 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #4: Finding Solutions
Session #4 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #5: Bringing People to Christ
Session #5 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #6: Facilitators and Leaders
Session #6 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #6 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #7: Damaged Relationships
Session #7 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #8: Nuts and Bolts of Partnerships
Session #8 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #9: Initiating a Partnership
Session #9 Notes and discussion questions.
Session #10: Pitfalls in Christian Partnership
Session #10 Notes and discussion questions.
ARTICLES
Communications Among International Christian Leaders
An effort to raise awareness and questions regarding the current international context and practices of communication between international Christian leaders.
16 Key Partnership Principles
Effective partnerships are built on trust, openness, and mutual concern. Partnerships are more than coordination, planning, strategies, and tactics....
Eight Proven Principles That Can Transform Your Success Working With Others
Eight proven partnership/network principles that make all the difference. Follow them closely and succeed.
The Power of Prayer & Worship: Trust Goes Up, Fear Goes Down
For this partnership formation meeting in Central Asia, they came from Sweden, Norway, Korea, Singapore, Germany, England, South Africa, America ...
Our Network Values: Ten Key Elements will Characterize Our Network
We want a vision that unifies and motivates us in collaboration that empowers significant spiritual breakthroughs only possible by working together...
Listening Teams: Better Feedback & Increasing Effectiveness
Partnership or network working meetings present a real communications challenge – for the facilitator, facilitation team, and the participants. How...
Partnership: The Special Challenge of Cities
Core Idea The migration of world population into the cities is creating unprecedented challenges for planners, governments, educators, sociologists,...
Collaboration’s Key Role: The Facilitator
Collaborative partnerships/networks do not spontaneously come to life. Neither do they continue to function effectively all by themselves. It takes...
Breakthroughs or Maintenance? Reflections on High Performance Ministry Network
Networks have enormous, 'game changing' potential. They can re-write the future. In an increasingly interconnected world they hey can help realize...
Implications of Change for Partnerships & Networks
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...
A Survey of Kingdom Collaboration
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...
The Power of Prayer & Worship: Trust Goes Up, Fear Goes Down
For this partnership formation meeting in Central Asia, they came from Sweden, Norway, Korea, Singapore, Germany, England, South Africa, America ...
30 Years, 30 Collaboration Insights
For nearly 50 years, along with numerous colleagues I have been developing missional partnerships around the world. At the conclusion of the first...
Effective People Group Engagement Checklist
Here is a simple checklist to guide your local church in effective people group ngagement
Launching Your Network- Ten Key Elements For Success
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;...
Prayer, Evangelization & Kingdom Cooperation
Background/Context For many years, with colleagues around the world, I have worked to bring God's people into whole, collaborative relationships. ...
Forming a Network: Overview of Consultation Process
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’...
Ministry Partnership: Exploration and Formation Guide
Guiding Partnership Principles Ministry partnership is a process, not an event. You can kill a Partnership by just calling a meeting without doing...
Communication & Coordination
Phill Butler shares the story of what happened when a group of ministries forming a new partnership discovered how much unnecessary duplication...