Application for Partnership Between <Agency Name> and <Church Name>’s Life Team
IMPORTANT NOTE: Before you use or give this application to any agency, be sure to customize the fields in RED. Then change them to black and delete this note. This application is meant to be part of the Roadmap outlined in our article How to Choose Ministry Partners. If you have any questions, please contact CFL at info@geintolife.org.
The Life Team at <church name> is excited to explore partnership with your agency. We are keenly interested in walking with organizations where we can both benefit and the Kingdom of God will be advanced. To help us make a wise partnership decision, please fill out this Application and return it to the person who gave it to you. We will then notify you of some next steps. If you have any questions along the way, please contact <contact name>. Thank you!
Please attach your Statement of Faith and any brochures that might explain who you are and what you do to this application when you return it to us.
Our contact at your agency is: _______________________________________________
Their phone: ________________________ Email: ______________________________
Address: ________________________________________________________________
Your website: ____________________________________________________________
Your contact on our Life Team is: ____________________________________________
Their phone: ________________________ Email: ______________________________
1. What is your mission?
2. What are your core competencies/strategies and how do you fulfill them?
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3. What resources do you offer that might benefit our Life Team and church? For example, “We offer seminars on a biblical worldview of biotechnology,” or “We offer confidential post-abortive healing Bible studies.” To help you answer, here is our Life Team’s mission and strategies: <INSERT YOUR LIFE TEAM’S mission and core strategies here or attach them>
4. Please attach your Statement of Faith. Describe how it is used in hiring part-time, full-time, paid and unpaid staff, and in selecting Directors for your Board.
5. How do the principles in your Statement of Faith show up in how you render your services both outside of the church and to the church?
6. List three churches with whom you currently partner and a person there we may contact to discuss your partnership. By providing these contacts, you authorize us to communicate with them concerning issues relevant to this application.
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7. What accountabilities outside yourself do you maintain? (e.g. financial, procedural, denominational accountabilities)
8. Are you officially part of a denomination? If so, which one and what is the nature of that relationship?
9. What resources could our Life Team and church offer to you? Be specific regarding financial and other resources.
10. What are your agency’s major annual events? Please list dates (or approximate dates if they change annually) and a basic description of the event.
Applicant’s Affirmations
__ I/we have reviewed your theological convictions <attach or point to where they may be found on web> and affirm that our policies and practices will not violate them.
__ I/we agree to inform <church name>’s Life Team of any changes in its organization that materially change the information provided in this application.
__ I/we affirm the <church name> Life Team’s desire to develop a healthy, reciprocal relationship with our agency and commit to being proactive in nurturing and facilitating that relationship.
__ I/we promise to inform the Life Team of any and all changes in our mission, strategies, core values, Statement of Faith, and senior staff positions in a timely manner.
__ I/we realize that ongoing partnership, which may include financial support, is contingent upon our agreeing to these Affirmations.
Affirmed by Authorized Agency Representative:
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