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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 – 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 – Using Business In Radical Ways | Gary Ringger & Rod Brenneman

By |2019-12-13T22:52:11+00:00December 13th, 2019|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missions, Poverty, SATtalk Video 2019, Work|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

WATCH THE VIDEO...   When Gary Ringger sold his business in 2002 he asked an older and wiser mentor what to do with the money. His advice… dream bigger than yourself and when it happens you'll know it was God [...]

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 [...]

$50,000 Gift to Launch the 3.0 Fund!

By |2019-07-11T23:15:26+00:00December 28th, 2018|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Philanthropy, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability, Work|

Investing charitable dollars in for-profit businesses to help the poor. Significant Matters is excited to announce the formation of the 3.0 Fund.  Many churches and especially the business-minded people of those churches are coming to see the rationale and possibilities of [...]

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 [...]