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Accountability without Control
By Alex Araujo, Partners International
Many missions organizations feel that the only way to ensure accountability of a ministry partner is to have control over it. However, the experience of many years in missions has shown that it is definitely possible to have healthy accountability without being controlling.

Freedom and Dependency in Christian Partnerships
By Alex Araujo, Partners International
"No man is an island." Each of us is dependent on others. In fact, the Bible advocates mutual dependency. However, dependency can have negative consequences. Well-meaning missionaries have often created one-way dependency that has stifled local initiative. Our challenge is to distinguish healthy from unhealthy dependency.

Getting Beyond Money Problems in Missions Partnerships
By Daniel Rickett, Partners International
Version 03/07/01
© 2001 Daniel Rickett All rights reserved.
Five years ago I walked with my friend David Kitonga through the mud streets of a slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya. Children climbed on garbage heaps to forage for food. Sewage collected in open ditches. Dozens of children crowded around and someone said, "These children are quiet, well behaved." David said, "They are quiet because they are sick." As we moved forward toward rows and rows of dark, clap board shacks, several men came toward us. They were not there to greet us; they came to chase us away. You see the economy of that slum was based on prostitution and the production of illegal liquor. Even the police seldom ventured there.