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| PEER Servants has identified four factors that are critical to establishing a successful partnership. |
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1) The Centrality of Christ
All that PEER Servants does is ultimately geared to making Christ known. That includes not only what we do, but how we do it. Most would agree that empowering the poor in the name of Christ is honorable, but the way we as PEER Servants’ volunteers work with our MED partners, our attitudes and actions towards the micro-entrepreneurs, and the way we work with each other within PEER Servants is also critical to bringing Christ honor. We must keep Him central in all we do and do it as if we were doing it directly for Him. |
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2) The Foundation of Fellowship
Micro-enterprise involves money, and whenever money is involved in a partnership, the potential for distrust heightens. PEER Servants values a foundation grounded in fellowship - we spend at least one year and often closer to two or more years just getting to know a partner and having them get to know us before any funds are exchanged. We also encourage financial accountability to be a two-way street - not only PEER Servants holding its micro-enterprise partners accountable for the funds distributed to them, but insisting that our partners hold us accountable in the way we invest what God provides - both as an organization, and as individuals with our personal assets. |
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3) The Power of Prayer
We hold firmly to the truth that God at His weakest is infinitely stronger than man at his strongest. PEER Servants commits to sacrificial prayer on the part of our partners and their entrepreneurs, and the partners commit to the same on behalf of the PEER Servants volunteers. We are often amazed at how God chooses to answer prayer when we approach Him from around the globe on a given issue that could bring Him great glory. |
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4) The Reign of Reciprocity
We rejoice knowing that God has prepared our brothers and sisters around the world to strengthen and encourage us as PEER Servants volunteers just as He is preparing us to be a source of strength and encouragement for them. We also rejoice knowing He is preparing the partners to strengthen and encourage each other. If we never take off our financial lenses, we may question if God has truly prepared our brothers and sisters in the so-called developing world for those in the so-called developed world, but when we replace our financial lenses with Biblical lenses, the balancing of the scales comes into focus. When we all come to the table with what God has given each of us, we all go away strengthened as a result, and more importantly, we all decrease and God, in His glory, can increase. |
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