Partnerships for Global Cities

In February 2008 visionSynergy Director Phill Butler provided practical training on the why and how of ministry partnership for the Impact World Teams initiative of Youth With a Mission in Kona, Hawaii.

More than thirty leaders from six countries are in training to lead year-long, city-wide evangelism and discipleship initiatives in cooperation with the local churches in key international cities.

visionSynergy Trustee Seph Barnard video taped segments of the training plus other special segments for use on the Powerofconnecting.net partnership resource web site.  See the videos on YouTube.com and GodTube.com video sites by searching for “Phill Butler.”

Winning American Cities

visionSynergy continues to work with the Mission America Coalition to develop a “cadre” of partnership specialists who will continue to widen the core value of collaboration within the city-reaching movement of American churches, denominations and para-church ministries.

Monthly reinforcement calls were held in 2008 and were met with a high level of acceptance. visionSynergy staff Phill Butler and Bill Sunderland delivered another eleven hours of class during the City Impact Roundtable in Boston in the Spring of 2008.

A second tier of training is being developed for delivery in later months.