The Future World Giving Report introduces the key concepts in, and context for, the Future World Giving project. Long term forecasts for economic growth and levels of individual wealth suggest that in the next two decades millions of people willRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
World Giving Index 2013: A global view of giving trends
The USA is again the most generous nation according to the fourth edition of the World Giving Index which looks at charitable behaviour across the world, involving more than 130 countries. The World Giving Index score is based on anRead more…
Connected to Give: Faith Communities
People of faith in the USA tend to give more overall to charitable causes than Americans without a religious affiliation according to the atached study by Connected to Give. About 75 percent of people who frequently attend religious services gaveRead more…
Hungry Planet: Consumption Around the Globe
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, consumes 24 percent of its energy resource. As the attached infographic from InternationalBusinessGuide.org shows, when it comes to per capita energy consumption, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, andRead more…
Disaster Response Volunteer Guide for Crisis Care Volunteers
Based generally from guidelines of the Baptist Disaster Responses of Virginia, Maryland, and Ohio. This is primarily for volunteers in the Philippines.
Generosity in Christian Living in India Conference
The National Generosity Network in India is organising a conference on 1 and 2 February 2014 to catalyse increased generous living in India. This is an event that God can use to impact India greatly in the future. A brochureRead more…
12 Tips for Filling Out/Submitting Online Applications
Many if not most trust and foundation funding applications have to be completed online. This can be a nerve wrecking process. Allison Shirk offers very useful tips to complete these applications.
Foundation Stats
This is a fascinating information hub on US foundation giving in 2011. The link to foundations that give to religious organisations is http://data.foundationcenter.org/#/fc1000/subject:religion/all/total/list/2011.Look at the information on the top 50 foundations and top 50 recipients.
Born to Die – The REAL Christmas Story
Jesus Christ is the only person who has ever lived whose primary purpose of being in the world was to die. His death was the supreme gift that allowed us to have eternal life. May we celebrate HIM during thisRead more…
Building Character At Home
Character modeling by a father is the biggest teacher, and has a farther reach than anger, and manipulation. Listen to Dr. Dobson as he gives profound insight on this subject of parenting.