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. 

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“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

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“The Filipina maid has done more for the spread of the Gospel than all the Western missionaries combined.”

Mission Agency Leader, Middle East

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“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

 

At Scatter, we center the voice of local leaders in emerging markets, broker globally connected resources, and cultivate training pipelines for showing up in the world differently.

In order to show up well in the world, 3 foundational paradigm shifts need to happen...

  • The Bigger WHO

    Many have a diminished view of their place in the story of God. Most Christians feel excused or excluded from fully participating in the Kingdom of God, often believing that the "real" work is reserved for pastors, missionaries, or those in full-time roles at Christian nonprofits. What if every Jesus follower saw themselves as a full participant with God in His Kingdom plan for the world?

  • The Greater WHAT

    Many have a reduced view of the Gospel and a diminished understanding of what participating with God looks like. Often we see aspects of life such as work, hobbies, and relationships at best as platforms for sharing Gospel words and, at worst, as necessary evils that lack any redemptive value. What if every Jesus follower saw every aspect of life as space to reveal God’s goodness in the world?

  • The Different HOW

    Many have a distorted view of their role in the world. For too long, Christians have shown up in the world as saviors rather than servants. We have taken leadership rather than recognizing the local men and women God has already raised up. What if we centered the voice of local leaders and join them in their vision to see God’s Kingdom come into their community?

 

 

What We Do 

  • 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

Start with Good

 

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.

Infinite Dignity

 

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.

God is Already (T)Here

 

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.

Inconvenient Mutuality

 

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.

Tenacious Solidarity

 

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.

Durable Hope

 

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. 

Uncompromising Curiosity

 

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.

Bias for Building

 

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.

Criticize by Creating

 

We define more than defend, creating as a practiced response to criticism.

Join Us On This Journey

Partner With Us Financially

Your gift will help connect local leaders and those ready to step in and leverage their resources and skills for co-creation of holistic global flourishing.

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