ReThink Missions

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 [...]

The Courage to Disrupt | Larry Sharp

By |2020-01-03T16:15:02+00:00January 3rd, 2020|Categories: Business As Mission, Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missions, Poverty, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, SATtalk Video 2019, Work|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Rick had just retired as the VP for Europe at Conoco.  He spent his career in the halls of power but never, in all those years, was he asked to use those skills as a means [...]

Churches Investing In Enterprise Solutions | Wayne McDaniel

By |2020-01-03T16:00:25+00:00January 3rd, 2020|Categories: Business As Mission, Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, Missions, Philanthropy, Poverty, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2019, Work|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Sitting in churches all across the US are men and women whom God has gifted with exceptional “business sense.” They know how to do business, how to create jobs and the power of work to lift [...]

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 – 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 [...]

Prove It! | by Tom Bassford

By |2019-07-11T23:15:26+00:00February 1st, 2019|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Missional Communities, Partner, Philanthropy, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability|

The church in North America is losing ground in attendance, influence, credibility and virtually every other category that really matters.  It’s becoming increasingly apparent that, if the Church really wants to be the hope of the world, then it [...]

Prophetic Imagination | by Tom Bassford

By |2019-07-11T23:15:26+00:00December 22nd, 2018|Categories: Church Missions, flourishing, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2018, Sustainability|

Change comes in a thousand different ways but never in a hurry or by unanimous consent.  That may be one of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years.  I used to think the best strategy for [...]

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 [...]

It’s Because This Church Has Been Helping Us | by Rick Rusaw

By |2019-07-11T23:15:27+00:00December 7th, 2018|Categories: Church Missions, Philanthropy, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability, Uncategorized|

Over the years I have always tried to look at the broader trends going on in the world and try to translate them into the church world.  Recently I was invited to sit in on a roundtable discussion with [...]