They agreed to pray.

That was all.

When leaders of Crystal Springs and Pleasant Valley congregations in Kansas and eight congregations in and around Santa Cruz, Bolivia, agreed to an initial partnership through Mennonite Mission Network in 2004, there were no elaborate financial arrangements, no specific plans for fraternal visits, no detailed lists of ways they would strengthen one another.

They agreed to pray.

The Santa Cruz churches would gather prayer needs from one another and from the surrounding rural churches and send them north. The Kansas churches would send their own requests south.

The arrangement was simple.

The results have been amazing.

For more about the partnership, view the videos (right) or read about it in Beyond Ourselves.