The strategies and solutions that come with Missions 3.0 include things like job creation, business start-up and homeownership, to name a few. Churches are already beginning to create initiatives around these kinds of initiatives and are discovering they have marketplace [...]
In this talk Craig Cheney, who serves as the Executive Pastor of Heartland Community Church in Olathe Kansas, and Tom Bassford talk about the relationship of disciplemaking and missional communities to the work of creating sustainable solutions through church missions. [...]
Every day we witness the impact of poverty, injustice, disaster, and disease. Our desire as followers of Christ is to respond with compassion, love, and grace. In recent years, the church has responded in an unprecedented way to the needs [...]
FINCA’s mission is to alleviate poverty through lasting solutions that help people build assets, create jobs and raise their standard of living. FINCA owns and operates a network of microfinance institutions serving nearly 2 million low-income individuals in 23 countries. [...]
The Co-Op is a faith-based initiative of Kansas City area churches working together to bring about transformation at the neighborhood level. The initiative’s strategy is based on working with community leaders within a neighborhood inside of four catalytic program areas: [...]
Cayce takes an in-depth and honest look at lessons they are learning in building better partnerships with the churches and ministries they are partnering with both locally and around the world. Cayce Stapp is Pastor for Domestic and International Mission [...]
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 [...]