Tom Bassford

About Tom Bassford

Tom Bassford is founder and President of Significant Matters a faith-based non-profit committed to helping the church create sustainable solutions though the work of church missions. He is also the founder of SATtalks which aims to accelerate the learning curve for the church around sustainable approaches to church missions by highlighting the stories of people and organizations on the leading edge and connecting those who want to help move the church in this direction.

VIDEO – Africa’s Missing Middle | Andy Agaba

By |2019-12-27T21:31:55+00:00December 27th, 2019|Categories: Business As Mission, Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missions, Poverty, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2019, Sustainability, Work|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

WATCH THE VIDEO...   In Andy Agaba’s home country of Uganda, the major crisis they face is unemployment.  Eight out of ten who graduate from college will not find a job.  Is the answer more charity or even more micro-loans?  [...]

VIDEO – Beyond The Secular/Sacred Divide | Jeff Coffey

By |2019-12-27T21:32:06+00:00December 26th, 2019|Categories: Business As Mission, Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, Missions, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability, Work|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

WATCH THE VIDEO...   “You either serve God or you serve money,” Jeff was told over and over again in his early days in ministry. Earning money while doing missions was deceitful. Irresponsible. Impossible. For years, Jeff tried to adhere [...]

VIDEO – From the Church to the Marketplace | Emeline Nde & Renita Reed-Thomson

By |2019-12-22T15:29:31+00:00December 20th, 2019|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Discipleship, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missions, Partner, Poverty, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2019, Sustainability, Work|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Emeline Nde was 12 when she received a scholarship from a church out of Switzerland. “It enabled me to get one of the best educations I could in Cameroon. It was a paradigm shift from seeing [...]

VIDEO – Radical Relationships | Marlo Fox

By |2019-12-22T15:30:23+00:00December 18th, 2019|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, flourishing, Missions, Partner, Poverty, SATtalk Video 2019, Sustainability|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   “What if radical relationships across socio-economic lines isn't solely about doing for others because it's the right thing to do or because it's our biblical mandate?  What if it's not just about the privileged doing for [...]

VIDEO – Using Business In Radical Ways | Gary Ringger & Rod Brenneman

By |2019-12-13T22:52:11+00:00December 13th, 2019|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missions, Poverty, SATtalk Video 2019, Work|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

WATCH THE VIDEO...   When Gary Ringger sold his business in 2002 he asked an older and wiser mentor what to do with the money. His advice… dream bigger than yourself and when it happens you'll know it was God [...]

VIDEO – Charity at Its Best | Tom Bassford

By |2019-12-13T22:27:55+00:00December 11th, 2019|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missions, Poverty, SATtalk Video 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

WATCH THE VIDEO...   The North American Church is losing ground in attendance, influence, credibility and virtually every other category that really matters. Yet, according to Barna Research, 8 out of 10 Americans still look to the church for answers [...]

VIDEO – Missions 3.0 In a Nutshell | Tom Bassford

By |2019-12-13T22:28:09+00:00December 11th, 2019|Categories: Church Missions, Discipleship, Join the Conversation, Missions, Poverty, SATtalk Video 2019, Sustainability|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” For a church [...]

VIDEO – Pastor-preneur Serving the Poor | Kevin Peyton

By |2019-12-13T22:28:32+00:00December 11th, 2019|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missions, SATtalk Video 2019|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Kevin Peyton calls himself a “Pastor-preneur.” He’s a businessman turned pastor, turned not-for-profit leader…all at the same time. "For those of us who find ourselves in those three sectors; the world of church, the world of [...]

VIDEO – Good News (On the Town Square) | Pastor Tim Rogers

By |2019-12-13T22:28:49+00:00December 11th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Grace Point Church in Paradise, PA hired Katie Beiler, a Literacy Teacher, instead of a second assistant pastor after learning about the district's need to have children better prepared for school. Beiler reports to a district [...]

No Bird Can Soar in a Calm | by Mike Saccocio

By |2019-07-11T23:15:26+00:00March 5th, 2019|Categories: Dignity, flourishing, Missions, Poverty, Work|

No Bird Can Soar in a Calm - Gaining Influence in a Post-Christian Culture...  An early observation the Wright Brothers made that helped them figure out the physics of flight was that birds in flight use their wings to [...]