Kingdom Partnerships for Synergy in Mission
Dr. Bill Taylor (Dip, Moody; BA, NTU; ThM, DTS; PhD, University of Texas) was born (1940) and raised in Latin America. Following three years on IVCF staff in Texas, he and his wife, Yvonne, invested seventeen years in leadership training (Seminario Teológico Centroamericano) and church planting in Guatemala.
Following two years on the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Bill served the Missions Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance for thirty years, twenty years as Executive Director, and ten as Senior Mentor. During this season he coordinated the MC publications and global missiology teams.
Following the WEA decades, he founded https://www.taylorglobalconsult.org/ to focuses on consulting, teaching as adjunct at different seminaries, mentoring, writing and serving the CRUX Institute—an innovative Spanish-language apologetics platform. Bill has served the missionary movement for 62 years in theological education, leadership development, church planting and global networking. In singular ways, the 17 years in Latin America prepared him for 30 years in global ministry.
Bill has written (English and Spanish) and edited a great diversity of books for the local church, the global mission movement. The WEA Mission Commission books were produced by William Carey Publishing. His most recent book is Leading from Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission, WCP, 2025. He is not completing his memoirs.
Bill and Yvonne, a native Texan, were married in 1967. Together they have three children born in Guatemala, and eight grandchildren. Worshipping at Christ Church-Anglican, his highest passion is to finish well.
The church/missions community must move beyond superficial fellowship and simple networking to true partnerships, cooperative ventures, and the sharing of resources. This will result in synergy–a phenomenon where the output is greater than the sum of its parts.
Kingdom Partnerships for Synergy in Mission consists of a series of papers presented at a missions conference in Manila in 1992 that focused on the idea of partnerships. Essentially it asks the question: What is partnership in missions? And then proceeds to answer that question from a number of perspectives. Twenty-two missions leaders from around the world speak candidly to these issues and call us to reflection, relationship, and engagement.
This books talks about the difficulties of forming true partnership and what results can be achieved when two groups work together for the kingdom. Communication is almost always where partnerships break down, and it is often from misunderstanding the culture of the other party. This is a book about how partnerships work in missions.
Preface by Michael Griffiths
The World Evangelical Fellowship Missions Commission
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Part 1 – Foundations of Partnership
Chapter 2 – Kingdom Partnerships in the 90’s: Is There a New Way Forward?
Chapter 3 – Responding to Butler: Mission in Partnership
Chapter 4 – Responding to Butler: Reflections from Europe
Part 2 – Critical Issues in Partnerships
Chapter 5 – Cultural Issues in Partnership in Mission Patrick Sookhdeo
Chapter 6- A North American Response to Patrick Sookhdeo
Chapter 7- A Nigerian Response to Patrick Sookhdeo
Chapter 8- A Latin American Response to Patrick Sookhdeo
Chapter 9 – Control in Church/Missions Relationship and Partnership
Chapter 10 – Confidence Factors: Accountability in Christian Partnerships
Part 3- Internationalizing Agencies
Chapter 11 – Challenges of Partnership: Interserve’s History, Positives, and Negatives
Chapter 12 – Internationalizing Agency Membership as a Model of Partnership
Chapter 13 – Tensions in an International Mission
Chapter 14- The Benefits and Problems of Internationalizing Missions
Part 4 – Models of Partnership
Chapter 15- Partnership in Mission: OMF in a Unique China Partnership
Chapter 16- COMIBAM: Three Interdependent Partnerships in Latin America
Chapter 17- Some Aspects of Partnership in the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Wycliffe Bible Translators
Chapter 18- Mission Kanuri: A Plan of Action for Northern Nigeria
Chapter 19- Towards Interdependent Partnership: WEC in Multiple Partnerships
Chapter 20- An Indian Missions Partnership Model
Chapter 21 – OC International in an Indian Partnership
Conclusions
Chapter 22 – Partners Into the Next Millennium
Appendices
Index
Editor
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William D. Taylor
William D. Taylor
Dr. Bill Taylor (Dip, Moody; BA, NTU; ThM, DTS; PhD, University of Texas) was born (1940) and raised in Latin America. Following three years on IVCF staff in Texas, he and his wife, Yvonne, invested seventeen years in leadership training (Seminario Teológico Centroamericano) and church planting in Guatemala.
Following two years on the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Bill served the Missions Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance for thirty years, twenty years as Executive Director, and ten as Senior Mentor. During this season he coordinated the MC publications and global missiology teams.
Following the WEA decades, he founded https://www.taylorglobalconsult.org/ to focuses on consulting, teaching as adjunct at different seminaries, mentoring, writing and serving the CRUX Institute—an innovative Spanish-language apologetics platform. Bill has served the missionary movement for 62 years in theological education, leadership development, church planting and global networking. In singular ways, the 17 years in Latin America prepared him for 30 years in global ministry.
Bill has written (English and Spanish) and edited a great diversity of books for the local church, the global mission movement. The WEA Mission Commission books were produced by William Carey Publishing. His most recent book is Leading from Below: Lessons from the Crucible of Global Mission, WCP, 2025. He is not completing his memoirs.
Bill and Yvonne, a native Texan, were married in 1967. Together they have three children born in Guatemala, and eight grandchildren. Worshipping at Christ Church-Anglican, his highest passion is to finish well.
- Pages: 304
- Publisher:
William Carey Publishing
William Carey Publishing
- Binding: Paperback
- Publish Year: 1994
- Vendor: William Carey Library
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