An empowering partnership

With two partnerships in our hip pocket, there is another one looming on the horizon—and it is a behemoth! The Network of Biblical Storytellers International (NBSI) is eager to grow the synergies between our two organizations. Lisa Larsen Hill, the NBSI president, reached out to us at the start of May. Since then, we have had two very productive meetings with Lisa, Tom Boomershine, the founder of the NBSI, and Sandhya Ruban, the NBSI international chairperson. The NBSI Conference this year is their 40^th anniversary and it will take place August 6^th-8^th in Baltimore, MD. They have invited By Heart’s Tom Griffin to present to the NBSI board of directors on August 8^th about By Heart’s mission and how we can work in partnership.

Strategically, this is a big step for By Heart because it connects us to a wider international audience. And it is an audience that is already aligned with our mission! NBSI is already doing some things that we aspire to and we can learn a lot from them. The NBSI leadership is very humble and has even suggested that they may learn from By Heart.

This is a nice way to enter into a partnership!