Partnerships as part of growing missional churches...
Alban Institute recently hosted a gathering of church people most likely to NOT be gathered together. What was the common link that drew them together?
The reality of trying to be missional churches in a new age, with few of the traditional funding resources available created, unintentionality, a gathering of diverse Churches, each seeking ways to fund engagment of the Gospel in the life of communities. The intention of the meeting was not to see how similar the attendees were, nor to develop a diverse coalition of people of faith. In fact, the members were respectfully clear about who they were, but it just wasn't the focus of the training. They were there to learn how to form partnerships and become non-profit church organizations for benefit of the community they serve.
The possiblity of Partnership between people of broad differences for a common mission is described by Wayne Whitson Floyd in the article "Playing in the Same Sandbox:Why Partnerships are the Future of American Congregations." You can read that article at:
http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=9012
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