Missions on the Frontline

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How does WorldVenture choose and work with partners

Everyone talks about partnership, but what does worldventure do to find and maintain good partnership? And how does this actually work out as a benefit?

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Permalink Reply by Mark and Kathy Schaaf on January 31, 2010 at 8:46pm

The first question is: Is the relationship a partnership or a seconding or and involvement? It's important to understand the verbage and what is expected with each kind of relationship. In brief, I see the following distinctions:

-involvement - a casual working relationship with a common goal or project
- seconding- coming along and joining your talents, gifts and skills (and possibly some resources) to another ministry's goals and structure
- partnership - implies an equality to some extent in goals, vision, decision-making and effort (resources)

There are probably other kinds of relationships we are involved in within a broad continuum, but the first step in having a successful partnership is to define the terms and expectations on how the relationship is going to operate.

Kathy Schaaf