Global Learning Partners has a long and proud history of supporting and collaborating with Christian organizations and ministries.
It is our joy to work with you to strengthen your ministry in and through your church, community and agencies. As a global company that values inclusion, we look forward to expanding this work through other faith traditions over time.
A FEW OF OUR CLIENTS
Below are some of the groups, organizations and churches we have had the privilege of working with.
- Alliance of Christian Development Agencies (ACDA)
- Bread for World (Washington, DC)
- Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief
- Catholic Relief Services
- Catholic University College Ghana
- Centre d’Apprentisage pour la Formation et la Transformation (Haiti)
- Christian Reformed Centre for Public Dialogue
- Christian Reformed Church of North America
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
- Citizens for Public Justice
- Dorcas Aid International (Romania)
- Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission of Relief (India)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – Global Mission
- Emmanuel College of Victoria University – University of Toronto
- Food for the Hungry International
- Freedom from Hunger International
- Greater Milwaukee Synod, ELCA
- Habitat for Humanity Canada
- HOPE International
- Integral (Ethiopia)
- Integral Alliance (UK)
- Kings University College
- Lutheran World Federation (Mozambique)
- Lutheran World Relief (USA)
- Maryknoll Lay Missioners
- MissionPREP
- One Challenge International
- Save the Children (Canada and USA)
- Sinapis Academy
- Society for International Linguistics
- Summer Peacebuilding Institute, of Eastern Mennonite University
- Tearfund UK
- The Peoples Church
- United Church of Canada
- Wheaton College
- World Renew
- World Vision International (and Canada)
- Wycliffe College, of the University of Toronto
RESOURCES
Below are resources to support and inspire you in your work. Please contact us to create a learning design, resource or event to address your unique context.
There are many more resources on the GLP website that are applicable to faith-based work. Here we are sharing resources specifically for your setting.
Please note the below learning designs have been collected from various network members with various degrees of experience. While some of stronger than others, we find great value in all of them.
BIBLE STUDY
- Be What You Are: Thomas Merton and Vocation
- Judges: Opening the Dialogue on Violence and Salvation in the Old Testament
- Fifty Shades of Grain: (Re)new(ed) Perspectives on Ruth 3
- The Book of Jonah: Six Bible Study Lessons
- The Good Shepherd as Dialogue Educator: How Jesus Models the Principles of Dialogue Education
- Exploring Sexuality and Encountering Jesus
- A Brueggemann Feast: A Dialogue Education Framework
- A Pilgrim’s Journey: The Journey of Ignatian Leadership – learner workbook
- A Pilgrim’s Journey: The Journey of Ignatian Leadership – facilitator guide
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND OTHER TOPICS OF CONCERNS
- Global Hunger Workshop
- Ecological Spirituality: On the Care of Our Common Home
- Expose the Darkness: A human trafficking workshop and facilitator guide
- Living the 8th Fire
- Widening the Circle: Opening to Diversity and Undoing Racism
- Journey with Me: Refugee Stories that Change Lives – learner workbook, for the Christian Reformed Church
- Journey with Me: Refugee Stories that Change Lives – facilitator guide, for the Christian Reformed Church
- Journey with Me: Refugee Stories that Change Lives – learner workbook, for Ecumenical use
- Journey with Me: Refugee Stories that Change Lives – facilitator guide, for Ecumenical use
- Care for Creation: Christian Mission in Light of Our Environmental Moment
- Addictions workshop
- Learning to Dance: Steps to Childless Acceptance – learner workbook
- Learning to Dance: Steps to Childless Acceptance – facilitator guide
RETREATS AND CHURCH GROUPS
- Pendants and Prayers: The Spiritual, Cultural, and Historical Significance of Beads
- Destructive Attitudes in Sports – learner workbook
- Destructive Attitudes in Sports – facilitator guide
CHURCHES IN TRANSITION AND GROWTH
- The Space We Take Up
- Church on the Move: Striving Towards One Shared Body in Christ
- Conflict Management Across Cultures
- Long Range Forward Planning Day
- Turning Sodom into Zion: From Conflict into Prosperity
- Leading in Congregation and Community
- Safety Plan Workshops – 8 Steps of Design
CHURCH EVENTS
LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY
- Rooted and Linked: Finding Our Way into the Neighbourhood
- Trekking Between the Mountains: Ethically & Healthily Multi-Religious Belonging
- Answering God’s Call to Mission – learner workbook
- Answering God’s Call to Mission – facilitator guide
- Leveraging Immigrant Assets toward Homeownership Access
- RESTORE: Savings – facilitator guide
- Kid’s Kapers Training: Equipped to Impart Location Lead & Volunteer Guide – learner workbook
- Kid’s Kapers Training: Equipped to Impart Location Lead & Volunteer Guide – facilitator guide
- Using Your Sermon to Get to the Heart
- One Funeral. Two Learning Tasks
- Disability Etiquette
- Tips to Help the Bible Come Alive for Bible Study Groups
- Tips to Train Small Group Bible Study Leaders
- Strengthening Our Bible Studies
- Dialogue Education and Mission Trips
- Effective Confession: How to Do It and Why
- How Can We Design and Facilitate for Hospitality?
- Facilitation as Hospitality and Belonging
- The Death of the Professor: A Case for Dialogue Education – Daniel T. Haase
- A Spirited Epistemology – Jane Vella, PhD
- Dialogue Education: A Learning-Centered Pedagogy – Daniel T. Haase
- Spiritual Formation Goes to College – David P. Setran, James C. Wilhoit, Donald Ratcliff, Daniel T. Haase, & Linda Rozema
- Learning that Transforms: For the Sake of His Kingdom) – Rhonda M. McEwen, PhD
- Blended Learning: Curriculum Design for Effective Learning – Rhonda M. McEwen, PhD
- Building Community through Adult Learning Principles & Practices – Justin Park
- Unlocking Chilean Communities by Training Potential Catalytic Urban Church Planners – Lee M. Schnabel
- Basic Field Guide to Christian Dialogue Education – Lee Schanbel
- A Tale of Two Classrooms: Evaluating the Use of Dialogue Education in Teaching the Bible – Kyle Tennant
- A Practical Theology of Teaching for Transformation – Daniel T. Haase
- A Guide to Support the Direct Study of the Bible: Text-Based, Learning-Centered… – James C. Wilhoit, PhD (course notes)