Transformational Partnerships: Church to Organization
Transformational Partnerships: Church to Organization
A supplemental eBook for Missional Moves (Exponential Signature Series, Zondervan)
Making disciples is a team sport. If a local church wants to disciple a neighborhood, community or city, they can’t do it alone. That kind of community transformation will require the local church to partner with players from every domain of society, including parachurch organizations, NGO’s, business, school corporations, healthcare providers and government. If your church has a vision big enough to believe the Kingdom impacts all these areas, then high levels of partnership skills will be required.
They don’t teach you this stuff in seminary. You only learn this through blood, sweat and tears on the frontlines. Granger Community Church has seen thousands move out on mission, culminating in redemptive movements both locally and globally. From Monroe Circle Community Center, a hub for neighborhood renewal in Granger’s inner city, to a movement of more than 1,000 reproducing churches in India that include more than 120,000 people.
Practical Help for Partnership with Organizations, Businesses and Government
In this eBook, you’ll discover hard-fought lessons like:
How to define shared mission with players from every domain of society without compromising the mission of the church.
Some of the biggest mistakes we’ve made working with organizations and how to avoid them.
Practical tools we’ve used—like a Partnership Checklist and MOU’s—that build the right foundation for a long-term, high-impact partnership.
How to define the right kind of relationship with each partner.
Additional Information
Rob Wegner serves as a teaching pastor at Granger Community Church, calling the people of God to get out of their seat and into the Story. Under his leadership, Granger has seen thousands move out on mission, culminating in redemptive movements locally and globally, that include expressions like Monroe Circle Community Center, a hub for neighborhood renewal in the inner city; and a movement of more than 1,000 reproducing churches in India that includes more than 140,000 people. Rob is also the lead catalyst for EnterMission, which sparks holistic transformation of communities by cultivating grassroots movements, equipping and networking churches for glocal impact, and forging transformational partnerships across the domains of society. Currently, Rob is working alongside Alan Hirsch in an innovative coaching program called Future Travelers helping megachurches become missional movements. His first book, Share the Well, which he co-wrote with his wife, Michelle, is an eyes wide open experience through visually stunning photos and captivating stories of the holistic church planting movement they helped birth in India. His second book, Missional Moves, which releases in fall 2012, is the next book in Zondervan’s Exponential Signature Series. Rob and Michelle have three girls, Madeline, Whitney and Belle, who are quickly becoming Kingdom revolutionaries. You can find him blogging at robwegner.org or on Twitter @robwegner.
Jack Magruder is the Director of Life Mission for Granger Community Church (GCC), leading the way for operationally mobilizing the people of God to bring them back to the bleeding edge of God’s Mission in the world. Over the last near decade, Jack has engineered infrastructure, systems and partnerships between the people of GCC and organizations, businesses, other churches, agencies and individuals to build dynamic platforms for volunteer mobilization, church planter training and holistic community development—whether locally in the inner-city community of South Bend, Ind., to the far reaches of the Great Commission in remote Southern India. Jack also helps lead EnterMission, Inc., an organization dedicated to resourcing, coaching and networking other churches around the world for the purposes of amplified effect in ministry, church planting and cross-cultural development around the world. Alongside Rob Wegner, Granger’s Pastor of Life Mission, Jack will release the book Missional Moves through Zondervan’s Exponential Series in fall 2012. Jack and his wife, Sami, have two children, Elijah and Peri, and are seeking to move forward as a singular unit of Kingdom Commandos into the territory of Darkness to take back what rightfully belongs to God.
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