B4T Blog
Greg M, Patrick Lai, and guest bloggers write about the joys, challenges, and rewards that come with taking the Gospel to the least reached through real business.
WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Proverbs teaches, Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many counselors bring success. -Proverbs 15:22 For those who enjoy quotes, here’s some counsel from 20 other successful people concerning success. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through...
MENTORS ARE A MUST!
Imagine a coach trying to develop a world class soccer (football) team. Where would he invest most of his time—in the classroom or on the playing field? Would he have his team studying books about the soccer techniques of Pele? No! He would have them out on the...
DEVELOPMENT OR TRAINING?
Training. With Jesus as our model, we walk away from a structured approach to training. Jesus dealt with people, including His disciples, as individuals. He had no cookie cutter approach to discipleship. There were no programs. No one was sent off to Bible school to...
REFUGEE STATUS
The following is from a letter a dear friend, who serves in the Middle East, wrote us. I’ve edit parts for obvious reasons. I sat on the floor of a tent watching Syrian Christian refugees reach out to Syrian Muslim refugees. The Christians were sharing food they had...
NO MAGIC FORMULA
I was talking to an experienced field worker (not a B4Ter) recently. During our conversation, he mentioned a couple of times his “targets” in reference to the people he was ministering. And as we talked, it became clear to me that he had a formula to win people to...
B4T & BALANCE (PART II)
This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Find part 1 here. When you are first starting your job overseas or your business, you may need to abandon any idea of balance. That’s a serious statement that warrants strong consideration before moving into the B4T world. You will...
BALANCE & B4T
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Find part 2 here. The typical picture of entrepreneurs—20-hour work days, always-on email, working nights, weekends and holidays—screams for work-life balance. The “go for broke” ambition that turns B4T entrepreneurs into workaholics...
THE VALUE OF COACHING
The following is written by one of our coaches. At 60 years of age, he and his wife moved to the Middle East where he coaches B4T businesses around the Arab world. Twenty-Four hours ago there was a bombing, the city my wife and I currently call home, as well as a...
ABDUL
The following is written by one of the couples we mentor. May it encourage you as it did us. After work one evening, we invited "Abdul" (an employee we’d not met with before) and his family to dinner together with the two other believers who work with us. After a nice...
MOST ENCOURAGING EMAIL OF THE YEAR!—so far.
The following is contributed by a B4T couple I am close to. I am excited as I’ve worked with them for several years and prayed for them for many years. May it encourage you too. It’s been edited, including all names, for obvious reasons. In my many years of doing B4T,...
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