Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work. Ecclesiastes 4:9
The Chapel Hill Bible Church is committed to the core value of authentic relationships. To that end, we embrace the following priorities for developing, evaluating, and continuing our long-term cross culture mission relationships. These priorities reflect our prayerful desire to be good stewards of God’s given resources and to serve His Kingdom well.
We emphasize that these priorities are not meant to imply criticism of anyone or organization called by God to minister differently. On the contrary, we celebrate the use of all gifts and efforts which promote the knowledge and discipleship of Jesus Christ. We recognize that our resources are limited and that our calling is to minister in partnership according to these priorities.
1. There should be a shared vision of reaching, connecting, growing, and empowering people for the Kingdom of God.
2. Ministry vision must be clear, culturally appropriate and integrated with local leadership, culture, and society.
3. Goals and a plan of action must exist. The plan should be strategic, reasonable, revisable, and must involve local leadership of the ministry.
4. There should, over time, be evidence of ministry effectiveness and achievement of goals.
5. All expatriates should be in roles which are essential to the ministry and which cannot yet be filled by members of the local community. While thus serving they should actively promote the development of local leadership with the goal of eventually passing full control of the ministry to local leadership when appropriate.
6. There needs to be evidence of financial openness and accountability.
7. We are committed to being a blessing to our international partnership ministries in ways that will promote financial self-sufficiency and leadership development so that together we may enjoy interdependency, mutual learning, and sharing of resources as we fulfill our callings.
8. There must exist a mutual appreciation of and respect for cultural differences.
9. Opportunity should exist for an engaged partnership with CHBC wherein we share our lives as we assist and learn from each other.
I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:3-6
