Historically, church missions have been about mobilizing money and people toward relief and betterment efforts that provided urgent comfort, care and stability for those in crisis. However, those efforts alone do little to solve core social problems in lasting, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Phil spent his early career designing solutions to complex social problems around environmental issues. He also hails from a ministry family that has been laboring with the poor for four generations in Charleston, West Virginia. Using his back ground in [...]
Quinn is an ordained minister of 33 years with experience both overseas and in America in cross-denominational networking and multi-sector collaborations. He is the founder and president of OIKOS Network, a ministry to unite the Body of Christ. Since 2008, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Former Hershey exec, Don Larson says, “Find an idea that you’re willing to die for…and then start to really live.” After selling his possessions and moving to Mozambique to open a cashew company with a strong social mission, Don almost [...]
For 20 years Lynette has served as Executive Director of Missions for St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Orlando, Florida. For the past 8 years she has been leading the church through a fundamental shift in the way they do missions. [...]
This is an honest conversation about whether or not the church can play a meaningful role in creating sustainable solutions for people in poverty. This group of 2017 SATtalk presenters have vastly different experiences working with churches and not all [...]
