The mission must be done in partnership. The fullness of Graber's vision may have been delayed, but with global mission partnerships, MBM is proceeding in sync with his vision for a partnership-oriented global mission church. We have seen that the world is different, Mennonites are different, and the church is different. Such change calls for new models - new models for missionaries, new models for relationships, and new models for structuring agencies. MBM is committed to put in place new models for all three parts of mission.
Partnership is a radical response to a radical change in the world and in the church.
Mission energy flows from congregations through agency to the field. Nineteenth-century Mennonites did not have a mechanism for pursuing international missionary activity. Mission performed by the agency with field partners supported by North American congregations. MBM's activities were increasingly pursued not by missionaries going into situations where the gospel was completely unknown, but in cooperation with maturing national churches or local Christian nongovernmental organizations, which worked with MBM in planning mission agenda in the region. Now that we have looked at the general shapes of mission relationships, let us turn our attention to the components of global mission partnerships.