Partnership

Partnership means a formal agreement between two or more parties that have agreed to work together in the pursuit of common goals.

We currently have several kinds of partnerships at work in Burkina Faso which are helping us to pursue common goals of expanding the kingdom in certain areas of need. For instance, I have a family from Las Vegas who has been out twice now to help with some projects. They raise money to help roof 2-3 churches and then they come out and we go bless these churches with a roof, so that they have a meeting place to meet in. This has been such a blessing and testimony to these churches.

We have churches, who have opted to take on a specific project, and do so over a a specific number of years so as to be able to complete the project. The Ouagadougou Youth Center is one of those projects and the Glenview Alliance Church in Glen Rock, PA has taken that on as "their project". This next year will be the completion of that project. It is exciting to see. We have nearly 15 such partnerships, all with a specific goal and project in view.

Another neat partnership that is just starting is with an organization called ICM, or "International Cooperating Ministries". They have, as a goal, to blanket the whole country of Burkina Faso with church buildings. They have specific objectives, such as:

1. It must be a church of 100 baptized believers.
2. They much agree to seek to plant 5 churches in the next 3 years.
3. They must contribute an amount that they decide, during those 3 years, that will help build another church somewhere else.
4. They need to implement a training program of their own, or the Mini Bible College of the ICM group, in order to see the leadership of the church strenghtened.

Look on their website at http://www.icm.org/ to see what they are about. If you would like to sponsor or help sponsor a church in Burkina Faso, you can do so through them and 100% of your donation will be used to construct the church. You can specify where you want to help. You can do a whole church or part of a church.

All the way around, partnerships are a strong way to go to make an impact. It combines the resources of two or more partners, working together to accomplish a common goal. Examples of things that can be done through partnerships are: churches can be built, schools can be launched, people groups can be reached with the Gospel, and so on and so forth.

We thank God for our partners and what they are helping us accomplish here in Burkina Faso. It is exciting to see the resources come together for the accomplishment of great things, by God's grace and enabling.