We pulled together a group of business people from the audience at our last SATtalks to share their thoughts on sustainability, church missions and the value of a forum like SATtalks for them. A candid conversation on ministry and marketplace [...]
Either consciously or unconsciously we all measure the things that matter the most and that applies to what we do in the realm of missions. One of the big challenges we face in the effort to create sustainable change is [...]
How do you transition from implementing a non-profit program in underserved contexts to equipping the local Church to own, lead and grow a vibrant and sustained ministry? At HOPE International, we’re learning that communities flourish when we ask ourselves, our Church [...]
Eric Rochester is the founder and President of The Sending Project, a Kansas City-based ministry whose mission is to build missional awareness, community, and collaboration, among a diversity of churches. In this SATtalk Eric talks about the possibilities of doing [...]
Panel discussions at SATtalks give us a chance to look into some of the big issues that touch on church missions and sustainability. Sometimes we’re just talking about one of the “elephants in the room.” Sometimes we’re trying to bring [...]
We do more than charity. We do opportunity because we believe local men and women are the key to their own solutions out of poverty. Water4 exists to empower local communities to transform themselves and solve their own crisis. We [...]
This is a look at the various organizations represented at the 2015 SATtalks and why it's important to not only have church leaders and ministry partners but donors and people who can help with things like metrics. It's a talk [...]
“When we understand the dignity of the human person endowed with creative capacity and made in the image of God, it changes absolutely everything about the way we understand charity, missions, development and the poor.” WATCH THE VIDEO… [...]
Churches, along with so many other organizations, individuals and agencies, have begun to understand that much of our well-intended helping has had the unintended consequence of hurting the very people we are trying to help. But what do we do [...]
No one is more critical to the future of missions than the Missions Pastor/Director of the local church. They are the ones who will bring focused leadership to what missions will look like in the 21st Century. Missions 3.0 brings [...]