Two Mennonite Brethren churches in Oklahoma and Kansas are hosting Multiply Partnership Workshops in April.
Corn (Okla.) MB Church will host a workshop on April 20 and Zoar MB Church in Inman, Kan., on April 27.
Open to anyone, including leaders from other churches, Partnership Workshops offer encouragement for church leaders, especially mission leaders, and help connect North American churches to missionaries, national leaders and churches in other countries.
“(Partnership Workshops are) an important event for church leaders for deeper discussions around their specific church’s global engagement and what healthy partnership looks like,” says East of the Rockies mobilizer and workshop co-leader Stephen Humber.
Joining Humber as a workshop leader is Joanna Chapa, East of the Rockies Mobilizer and former missionary to Peru. Carmen Owen, liaison with Naomi House in Thailand, and Nasser al’Qahtani, regional team leader for the Middle East and North Africa, will attend the April 27 event in Inman.
Training focuses on forging healthy and honoring relationships with North American workers and in-country national leaders and projects.
“The day is full of encouragement, stories from global workers and honest discussion about how to partner better,” according to a promotional flyer.
A relatively new event, Partnership Workshops have been held in Hillsboro, Kansas; Fairview, Oklahoma; Mission, Texas; Reedley, California; Fresno, California; Bakersfield, California; and Blaine, Washington. Churches east of the Rockies interested in hosting a workshop may contact Stephen Humber at stephenh@multiply.net. Pacific District churches may contact Director of Mobilization Galen Wiest at galenw@multiply.net.
There is no cost to attend the upcoming workshops, but participants must register two weeks prior to the event, or April 8 and 15 respectively, by contacting Humber at stephenh@multiply.net. Participants are asked to arrive by 8:40 a.m. Snacks and lunch will be provided.
Janae Rempel Shafer is the Christian Leader associate editor and joined the CL staff in 2017. Shafer is an award-winning writer, receiving multiple awards from the Kansas Press Association and Evangelical Press Association. A Tabor graduate with a degree in communications and religious studies, she and her husband, Austin, attend Ridgepoint Church in Wichita, Kansas.
