Serving everyone in a partnership is a lonely task. Successful partnerships develop in order to accomplish a specific vision or task. Partnership for partnership's sake is a sure recipe for failure. Though limited, these objectives must have clear Kingdom significance that captures the imagination and provides motivation for the group. Relevance to each partner ministry's vision and objective 6.
Effective partnerships start by identifying needs among the people being reached or served.
They do not start by trying to write a common theological statement. From these needs, Kingdom priorities, barriers to spiritual breakthroughs, and the resources available or needed, realistic priorities for action must be distilled and agreed. Partnerships are a process not an event. The start-up, exploration and formation stages of a partnership often take a long time. Call a formation or even exploratory meeting too early and you will likely kill the possibility of a partnership.