Cultivating A Collective That Brokers Good In the World
Cultivating A Collective That Brokers Good In the World
The role of the West has changed.
We need new starting points.

“I cannot think of one reason why we would need someone from the west to come to Africa to help us with planting churches.”
African Leader

“The Filipina maid has done more for the spread of the Gospel than all the Western missionaries combined.”
Mission Agency Leader, Middle East

“Stop sending church planters and evangelists. We need business leaders.”
Turkish Church Network leader
We choose to shift the focus...
enterprise over aid
partnership over paternalism
mutual flourishing over poverty alleviation
strengths-based over deficit-based
relational over transactional
What We Do
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Cultivate
We are cultivating those longing to participate fully in the world. Our focus is on changing the narrative, building a Biblical framework, providing training intensives, and fostering a collective. We are a hub of relevant resources that help individuals, organizations, and churches show up well in the world.
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Broker
With a posture of listening, we are creating a process that connects relationships, talent, and capital with felt needs in the world. We are bringing together cultivated Jesus-followers and local leaders in the world. This includes events, tools, and advancing to the forefront of technology to facilitate connections.
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What We Believe
We begin at the beginning: Inherent goodness in every person and community. We practice a strengths-based approach to seeing opportunities in every problem, beauty before deficit, and redemptive solutions in the face of intractable realities.
We recognize the inherent worth and dignity of every person, created in the image of God, though fallen, yet beautifully endowed. We longingly participate in dignity unveiled, renewed, and experienced anew by everyone we come into contact with.
We are not as much carriers of the good news as we are witnesses. We bear witness to a God who is already present in communities. We ask where God is already acting and moving.
We embrace ideas and ways of thinking other than our own. We name and frame power dynamics, always seeking empowerment. We are bound together and need one another as sacred siblings, approaching one another at eye level.
God consistently shows up next to those that systems have excluded and oppressed on the margins. This solidarity with us - walking our road, living our life, dying our death - is our pattern for loving our neighbor.
We defy cynicism and apathy through rooted, imaginative hope. We wade in a long tradition of Christian imagination, subverting despair on the one hand and hype on the other.
We affirm the crucial role of persistent curiosity; we actively resist algorithms that encourage us towards a confirmation bias, believing we are better builders and shapers when our thinking is crystallized by hard conversations and views divergent from our own.
We affirm the impulse of human beings to design, shape, invent, and optimize. We believe creativity mixed with Christian imagination is a gift to be stewarded for the common good.
We define more than defend, creating as a practiced response to criticism.
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