Not talking about money with your church is like not talking about sex with your kids. Just like a middle-school locker-room, truth will be distorted and God-honoring meaning will be lost if we surrender the conversation. If you stop and listen, everyone else is talkingRead more…
About the Lausanne Global Conversation
The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »
40 Day Generous Life APP
The 40 Day Generous Life APP is now available to download on any phone or tablet. Just go to your APP store from your device and search for “40 Generosity”. This free app will be a major component in spreading the generosity messageRead more…
European Strategic Initiative (ESI) – Overview
The European Strategic Initiative is a research strategy to assist donors, both inside and outside Europe, to connect with strategic, biblically faithful ministries and churches in Europe. The specific goals are: To support the re-evangelization of Europe, the development andRead more…
Perspectives on mission giving in Africa
1. Introduction Mission giving is a very foreign concept in many African (Black) churches in South Africa. I think there are two main reasons for this: 1. Missions is a foreign concept: Till very recently in South Africa ‘missions’ has beenRead more…
Business for the Common Good
THE OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE SYMPOSIUM ONENTERPRISE, ETHICS AND DEVELOPMENT (SEED) Business for the Common Good Saïd Business SchoolUniversity of Oxford 26-27 September 2014 An inspirational engagement that SEEDS practical change For more information visit the website
Emotion Creates Its Own Logic (How grantmakers review applications)
When reviewing grant applications and deciding on which organizations you can support this cycle and which ones you have to respectfully decline, it can sometimes get a little emotional. You want to help as many people as you can, butRead more…
Companies that Donate the Most Cash to Nonprofits
At Double the Donation, our goal is to help nonprofits and their donors make the most of corporate giving programs. Below is a list of the top ten companies that donated the most cash through corporate giving programs in 2013:Read more…
The World’s Most Influential Cities
The attached report and website article rank London as the world’s most influential city. London is followed by New York and Paris. The report graded 58 leading metropolitan areas in eight categories: the amount of foreign direct investment they haveRead more…
A Dozen Ways You Can Summon and Release the Next Generation of Global Christians
As the father of four daughters, it’s been impressed upon me that different people think differently. What seems entirely sensible to me does not make similar sense to everyone,apparently! In some cases, it doesn’t make sense to anyone in ourRead more…
Advice and Tips for Nonprofits on Annual Reports
Creating annual reports are essential for ministries to report on what happened in the year before and look forward at the year ahead. Unfortunately I find that it annual reports are extremely difficult to get from ministries. The website providesRead more…