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It is Good to be Children Sometimes | by Tom Bassford

By |2019-07-11T23:15:30+00:00December 22nd, 2017|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, flourishing, Join the Conversation, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, Work|

Coffee, beer, brussel sprouts; those are things that I now love but for which I had to acquire a taste.  There are many things over the course of one’s life for which they acquire a taste and come to love. [...]

Wealth Creators: The New Missionaries by Bob Lupton | Toxic Charity

By |2019-07-18T15:34:52+00:00November 13th, 2017|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, SATtalk Video 2017, Sustainability, Work|

Bob Lupton is a Christian community developer and entrepreneur who brings together communities of resource with communities of need. Lupton has invested the past 43 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta where his life’s work has been the rebuilding [...]

Impact Investing and a Theology of Business by Aimee Minnich | Impact Foundation

By |2019-07-18T15:33:52+00:00November 13th, 2017|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2017, Sustainability, Work|

Aimee Minnich serves as Chief Impact Officer and General Counsel of Impact Foundation. Prior to founding Impact Foundation, she served as President and General Counsel for the National Christian Foundation, Heartland, where she designed and implemented the foundation’s Missional Investing [...]

Catalysts for Transforming Lives and Communities by Mike Simon | Simon Solutions |

By |2019-07-18T15:30:43+00:00November 13th, 2017|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, flourishing, SATtalk Video 2017, Sustainability|

Over the last 40 years, Mike has served in executive leadership roles for churches, charitable organizations and for-profit businesses. He has also served as a consultant for city transformation movements and has invested years of research into emerging trends, best [...]

Communities Charting Their Own Future by Grace Dyrness | Urban Initiatives

By |2019-07-18T15:29:47+00:00November 13th, 2017|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, flourishing, SATtalk Video 2017, Sustainability, Uncategorized|

Grace is Senior Researcher for The Institute for Transnational Research and Development in Pasadena, California.  She works extensively with grass roots non-governmental and faith-based organizations around the world where she uses advocacy planning and participatory approaches to engage people in [...]

Impact Investing- Changing the Charitable Landscape | by Aimee Minnich

By |2019-07-11T23:15:57+00:00October 12th, 2017|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Philanthropy, ReThink Missions, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Work|

Krista Petty interviews Aimee Minnich of Impact Foundation SATtalks is excited to have Aimee Minnich serving as co-host with Tom Bassford for a special pre-event; An Evening with Bob Lupton and Don Larson on October 18, 7-8:30 PM at [...]

Engaging Communities to Chart their own Future | by Grace Dyrness

By |2019-07-11T23:15:57+00:00October 3rd, 2017|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, flourishing, Join the Conversation, Partner, Sustainability|

Editor's Note: You can hear Grace Dyrness present in person at the 2017 SATtalks, Oct. 19 & 20 in Kansas City.     When I was living in the Philippines and working on a Master’s degree in Urban Anthropology, I decided to [...]

No Needy Among Us by Quinn Schipper

By |2019-07-11T23:15:57+00:00September 22nd, 2017|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, flourishing, Join the Conversation, Philanthropy, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability|

Imagine a community where it is said, "there are no needy among us." Imagine a community that addresses the injustice of poverty so strategically that “there are no needy among us.” Imagine the Body of Christ in a community [...]

Do you have the courage to evaluate? by Krista Petty

By |2019-07-11T23:15:57+00:00September 19th, 2017|Categories: Church Missions, flourishing, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty|

How do you know if your mission work is transformative and sustainable? Anecdotal stories and occasional statistics of lives touched or improving can be encouraging and generate continuing funding; but, does that show sustainable transformation of an entire community [...]