Dignity

Partnering Like Family, Not Donors | Tom Bassford

By |2020-04-22T12:37:15+00:00April 20th, 2020|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, flourishing, Missions, Partner, Poverty, ReThink Missions, Sustainability|

I was supposed to be in Zimbabwe this week with a small group of people from the US, Canada and the UK.  We were going to get an up close look at Hands at Work In Africa, a group [...]

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 – 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 [...]

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 [...]

A Thing To Be Done | by Tom Bassford

By |2019-07-11T23:15:27+00:00December 14th, 2018|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Join the Conversation, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Work|

"But remember: if prayer be anything at all, it is a thing to be done."  George MacDonald Sooner or later even the most reluctant among us finds a use for prayer.  Scrooge found his knees at the end of [...]

VIDEO – Reframing Charity by James Whitford | Watered Gardens

By |2019-07-18T15:52:32+00:00December 13th, 2018|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability, Work|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Many poverty fighting leaders passionate for social justice have begun to shy away from the word "charity." Unfortunately, for many, the definition of this biblical virtue has been reduced to a superficial approach more often harmful than [...]

VIDEO – Gaining Influence in a Post-Christian Culture by Michael Saccocio | City Mission Schenectady

By |2019-07-18T15:48:32+00:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2018, Work|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Even as our culture drifts farther away from a Biblical world-view, there are now great opportunities for the church to gain influence and make an even greater impact in our communities.  It is exciting that the path [...]