International Partnerships is a ministry venture DELTA Ministries began in 2007. International Partnerships (IP) seeks to glorify God through cross-cultural partnerships by equipping and engaging national leaders to mobilize the local church in mission. The focus of IP is to come alongside the leadership of existing mission efforts in other countries for a limited time to assist in developing a church-based model of mobilization and short-term missions by that country for that country. The goal is to equip and engage nationals to execute effective church-based mission efforts through short-term missions and without direct long-term assistance from DELTA Ministries.  An Executive Summary for IP can be found here ITAU Summary

DELTA’s first partner was International Teams Australia (ITAU). Our partnership with ITAU involved placing a full-funded staff member in Sydney, Australia to work out of the ITAU office. DELTA staff have seen 246 people trained on 19 teams and an additional 66 team leaders during their time in Sydney. 

Our DELTA staff member has finished his time in Sydney, but left culturally appropriate vision, processes, procedures and resources in place, having equipped Australians to continue the ministry after our departure. ITAU is continuing the ministry of mobilizing and equipping the local church for mission.

Throughout the process, we worked in collaboration with our partners, seeking to help them fulfil their vision for ministry in their country. At the same time we challenged, equipped and resourced them to more effectively mobilise the local church and impact the lives of individuals. Click here to read the journey of an Australian church into mission.

Our second partnership has been established with International Teams New Zealand, placing a staff member in Tauranga, New Zealand to repeat the process. While the ministries are from the same organizational roots, they are in very different places developmentally in addition to the cultural differences to be worked through. But as with all of DELTA’s ministries, we seek to customize our programs to the needs of our partners.

DELTA is open to developing other partnerships seeking to help existing national ministries to more effectively mobilize and equip the local churches in their countries in culturally appropriate ways. If you would like to investigate what that might look like in your context, contact Brian Stark at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it