Street Youth Ministry: Model for Partnering

Jul 13, 2012

Model for Partnering

We want to partner. Even if we had the resources, we don't want to do everything ourselves. It deprives the church of an opportunity to use it's gifting and abilities, and it deprives our clients of a chance to meet and connect with your members!

We want to identify three or four people on each campus to become SYM Connectors. We'd like to meet with your connector team at least twice-a-year to talk about what's working, what isn't, and what opportunities we have coming up to engage your members, connect our clients, and build our relationship.

We have a partner checklist that is great for people getting started. It provides fill-in-the-blank guidance for how to get started and how to grow our relationship. It also provides many options for our relationship once it is established. We deeply believe that

you already have ministries in place that will help our clients. We probably have to work together to understand the opportunities, lower barriers, and establish a connection that works for everyone involved.

Please, reply to receive a copy of the partnership checklist. Terry Cole can help review the checklist with you to fill in the blanks and establish where we are in the building process. We can easily do this by phone or face-to-face.

We believe our checklist is also helpful to partners we've been working with for a while. We've grown, matured, and learned a lot over the last four years. We've reshaped ourselves this year to better allow engaged partners to step into ministry with us. For

you, we have a list of partnership opportunities to consider.

Please, reply to receive a copy of our partnership opportunities. This is something probably best talked about face-to-face to explore and examine opportunities.