Dignity

VIDEO – Church, Non-profits and the Poor Working Together by Cheryl Cuthbertson | Children of the Nations

By |2019-07-18T15:46:32+00:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Partner, ReThink Missions, SATtalk Video 2018, Sustainability|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Over the last several decades, non-profits have played an increasing role advocating and providing services for the global poor and disenfranchised. The initial role of the Christian non-profit was to bring the church safely into a sustainable [...]

VIDEO – Local Missions and the Role of Entrepreneurship by Oye Waddell | Hustle PHX

By |2019-07-18T15:44:45+00:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, SATtalk Video 2018, Uncategorized|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   Some of the best natural entrepreneurs in the United States are in underserved urban communities. They are called hustlers – visionary risk-takers who seize the opportunity to move product and turn a profit. They have the God-given [...]

VIDEO – Prophetic Entrepreneurship by Dr. Justin Beene, Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation

By |2019-07-18T15:43:29+00:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty|

WATCH THE VIDEO...   In the next 30 years the population will likely increase by 2.5 billion people with most of that being absorbed by urban areas.  This massive growth of our cities will continue to magnify the challenges of poverty, [...]

Getting Better at Doing Good

By |2019-07-11T23:15:29+00:00May 28th, 2018|Categories: Church Missions, Dignity, Entrepreneurship, flourishing, Missional Communities, Partner, PovertyCure Info, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Work|

Getting Better at Doing Good | There’s a lot being written and said these days about the effectiveness of charitable work.  The wonderful and provocative 90-minute documentary by PovertyCure called, “Poverty, Inc.” makes a compelling case that fighting poverty has [...]

It is Good to be Children Sometimes | by Tom Bassford

By |2019-07-11T23:15:30+00:00December 22nd, 2017|Categories: Business Persons, Church Missions, Dignity, flourishing, Join the Conversation, ReThink Missions, ReThink Poverty, Work|

Coffee, beer, brussel sprouts; those are things that I now love but for which I had to acquire a taste.  There are many things over the course of one’s life for which they acquire a taste and come to love. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]