Network

BILD International Network

The BILD International Antioch Network is a network of churches, church leaders, and church-based ministry enterprises that covenant together with BILD International to serve the worldwide progress of the gospel, based upon the philosophy and principles of “the way of Christ and His Apostles”—BILD International itself being a church-based ministry enterprise.

BILD International Partners

Partners—both North American and International—are church leaders, churches, networks of churches, and church-based ministry enterprises that commit to the BILD International training process and implementation of that training in their own movement, executed through the Type I-V, non-formal training system and/or the Antioch School of Church Planting and Leadership Development. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BILD International formalizes this relationship. There are five types of partnerships:

  • An association or denomination of churches
  • A church-planting movement or consortium of churches and/or mission agencies
  • A theological seminary or Bible college
  • A church-supporting mission agency
  • An “Antioch church”
BILD International Affiliates

Affiliates are church leaders, churches, networks of churches, and other ministry enterprises (theological institutions, mission agencies, training organizations, etc.) that desire to dialogue with BILD International Partners, as they seek to understand and potentially implement church-based theological education as a paradigm for developing their current and next generation of leaders. Affiliates may or may not be using BILD resources.

BILD International Associates

Associates are individuals who play key leadership roles in BILD International partnerships, because they function in a role of representing BILD in their civilization. BILD Associates are agents of BILD International and work in cooperation with BILD in partnerships, under the direction of BILD International. They are representatives of BILD in the following spheres of responsibility:

  • They are representatives of the BILD model and brokers of strategic partnerships on behalf of and in partnership with BILD International, in collaboration with the Director of International Partnerships.
  • They are Certified Trainers in the BILD Training System.
  • They are strategic partners in the materials adaptation process.
  • They are local executive leaders of civilization-wide training consultations.
  • They are on-site support agents on behalf of BILD, working with BILD Partners to manage the growth and expansion of the Partner ministry.
BILD International Resource Centers

BILD Resource Centers are resource centers, stewarded by BILD International Partners, that are certified by BILD International to deliver all of BILD’s services and resources. Each center must be led by a BILD Associate who is the primary liaison between the certified center and BILD International. The governing principles of this relationship between BILD International and the Resource Center leadership are as follows:

  • The Antioch Center is in partnership with/certified by BILD to serve its network and other potential networks or movements of churches, delivering all of BILD’s training services.
  • It has a resident BILD International Associate in primary leadership, who leads a Pauline team, rooted in that network.
  • It is ideally an emerging Antioch church, which is functioning in its network or moving toward that function.
  • It is church –based—singularly serving the purposes of the church.
  • It is strategically focused on a civilization-wide development.