Welcome to the PowerofConnecting Partnership eNewsletter. This month our partnership story shows how vision and mission can happen naturally, locally, and collaboratively. Our news articles feature national and international partnerships working together to foster Christian unity through fellowship, sports ministry, technology, and church leadership. New resources include a groundbreaking college-level course on collaboration, a Web site for church planters, and a recent article detailing ways to achieve genuine unity.
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 Tentmakers International (formerly known as TIE) was established in 1989 to "promote and facilitate the tentmaking movement across the world and...provide a forum for networking." (The term "tentmakers" refers to Christians who receive little or no pay for their church work/evangelism; instead, they support themselves working full time in the marketplace.) TI also provides information and resources for tentmaker trainers so they can help vocationally skilled Christians minister cross-culturally worldwide.
This August 12-15, 2010, the second all Africa Tentmakers International Conference will be held at the Dadji Sports Academy in Douala, Cameroon. Attendees from 40 African countries will gather to develop their abilities through training sessions, interactive workshops, worship and prayer as well as learn from each others' experiences.
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This Partnership's Vision is...Vision!
 It was Christian Layman Church that first came up with the idea. With millions of Californians without health insurance and CLC with many optometrists as church members...why not offer free comprehensive eye exams and glasses to its Oakland community? So CLC teamed with World Impact, a Christian mission organization serving the urban poor, to organize such an event. Earlier this month the partnership completed its second annual eye screening clinic in West Oakland--a four-day, four-hour event, serving about 500 people of all ages.
Several optical companies helped sponsor the event: Vision Services Plan, Allergan and Topcon. This year St. Martin de Porres School, across the street from World Impact, offered its space for the event so that more people could be accommodated than the previous year. Eighteen optometrists-in-training from the UC Berkley School of Optometry, assisted by 125 volunteers, examined patients at seven stations set up in three rooms.
"The goal is to facilitate this process for this community so that they can start doing it on their own and we can move to different communities," explains Dr. Gilbert Matsuoka, who helped lead the exams.
The partnership is already planning next year's event. "We...have other organizations that want to get involved," says Andrew Huang, event organizer and pastor at Christian Layman Church. Read the full article |
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"One Prayer," One Church
 Last month, "One Prayer," an initiative started in 2008 by LifeChurch.tv in Oklahoma, gathered together over 1,200 churches worldwide, campaigning to break denominational barriers, unite believers, share messages and give to the needy.
This year, participating pastors talked "of an unstoppable God and an unstoppable church when united," exploring the theme with their congregations, sharing prerecorded video messages and resources with other churches, and introducing video teaching.
After only three years "the initiative has brought together...millions of Christians...to simply be one church" and helped plant 1,600+ new churches in India, Cambodia, China and Sudan.
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Biblica, Ubabalo eAfrica Team for Sports Ministry Outreach
 Biblica and Ubabalo eAfrica have worked together this World Cup season to train coaches for soccer ministry. These coaches mentor and teach character and soccer skills as they prepare their young players for tournaments.Through this partnership, Biblica hopes to reach 1,000 disadvantaged children, sharing God's love and message of hope as it provides soccer balls and life-building lessons.
Since April, the two sports ministries have collaborated to bring their sports ministry to Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa. Read the full article + Find Related Networks |  |
SF, NHCLC Partner for Internet Ministry
 Streaming Faith, the world's largest online faith-based broadcasting portal, and The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC)/The Hispanic National Association of Evangelicals, America's largest Hispanic Christian organization, have formed a strategic partnership. Through Streaming Faith's online video platform and digital technologies, ministries will be able to reduce expenses when delivering their messages via the Internet and increase fund-raising capabilities and related communication efforts.
Explains NHCLC President, Rev. Samuel, "[T]he Hispanic Pastor... [will be able] to engage, enrich and empower the local church on a global scale....[T]his partnership provides...opportunity for...worldwide ministry...." Read the full article + Find Related Networks |  | |
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New CPM Web site Encourages Collaboration
 A Church Planting Movement is "a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweeps through a people group or population segment." ChurchPlantingMovements.com is a new Web site designed to help field workers access helpful articles, case studies, interactive resources, and free downloadable booklets. The site also features Iron-on-Iron--a forum for CPM practitioners "to share success stories, bounce ideas off of one another, and provide feedback and suggestions to each other." Read more + Find Related Resources | |
New Addition to POC Library
Dr. Krish Kandiah--speaker, lecturer, and author with wide experience in evangelism and cross cultural mission--discusses in his recent blog article, "5 Ways Towards Genuine Unity," five postures that missional partnerships should consider adopting as they work toward unity: (1) Shared vision, (2) Unity in opposition, (3) Generous orthodoxy, (4) Kingdom--not empire--thinking, and (5) The chemistry of relationships.
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