What is Biblical generosity? Over the years, the Lord has grown our depth of understanding in this powerful area of life. Generosity is about freedom and grace. It is about the freedom that comes from understanding, in the deepest partsRead more…
Beyond the Pioneer: Getting Inclusive Industries to Scale
The proliferation of market-based solutions to poverty has been one of the most exciting developments in the fight against poverty in recent years. Their lack of scale has been one of the great disappointments. The urgent challenge of today isRead more…
Business Without Mission: Not Good For Long-Term Impact?
Should Christians in business have a Jesus centered mission as they do business? Or should they just try to do good ethical business but play down Jesus in their business relationships and activities? Some like the term Business as Mission, othersRead more…
TBN National Conference 2014 – 26 February 2014 in London
As a business or professional person, your skills can have an impact of the neediest areas of the world. By mentoring and training emerging entrepreneurs, helping establish a business or investing, you can bring transformation and combat poverty. This year’sRead more…
Rebuilding the walls of the economy
Crossover Transformation Group together with Call24 is organising a number of seminars in South Africa to equip Christians with the foundational truths on how to do business and operate within God’s Kingdom economy to bring about societal economic transformation. ThisRead more…
Christian Community Computer Centres (C4s) – Transforming Communities through Information Sharing and Technology
This article that first appeared in Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies(Volume 24 No 2, April 2007) examines how computer centres can transform communities. It also makes a theological case that Christians should serve and enrich others andRead more…
Cities AG Recommended Reading: Developing Safe Environment for Learning and Transformation
One of the goals of the Cities Affinity Group is to create a safe environment for genuine, meaningful dialogue. Developing Safe Environments for Learning and Transformation, an article by Gregg Detwiler, Director of Intercultural Ministries, Emmanuel Gospel Center, is aRead more…
Developing Safe Environment for Learning and Transformation
One of the goals of the Cities Affinity Group is to create a safe environment for genuine, meaningful dialogue. Developing Safe Environments for Learning and Transformation, an article by Gregg Detwiler, Director of Intercultural Ministries, Emmanuel Gospel Center, is aRead more…
Why Minister to a City
Dr. Ray Bakke wrote the key paper about reaching cities at the original Lausanne worldwide congress on evangelism in 1976 where I attended in Switzerland as a student. I wrote this 14 years ago as a summary of what I knew about Dr. Bakke’sRead more…
A Modest Proposal to Transform Christians, Churches and Cities
A Modest Proposal to Transform Christians, Churches and Cities By Simply Obeying JesusAlan DoswaldJanuary 1, 2011 As we embark upon this new year and new decade, we should ask ourselves a question: At the end of this year and this decade willRead more…