SATtalk Video 2017

Church Missions and Lasting Change: The Tip of the Iceberg | by Tom Bassford

By |2019-07-11T23:15:30+00:00December 11th, 2017|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2017, Sustainability|

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, [...]

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 [...]

Can the Church Play a Role in Sustainable Transformation? | Panel Discussion

By |2019-07-18T15:26:34+00:00November 6th, 2017|Categories: Church Missions, Issues, Join the Conversation, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2017, Sustainability|

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 [...]