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.
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,...
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!
It was a beautiful Wisconsin Saturday, in late October. Wanting to take advantage of the weather, my family decided to go over to my Uncle Tom’s house for a BBQ. My cousin Jeff and I were both 11 years old. We had a knack for making easy chores hard, and safe jobs...
THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD
I was asked, “Do you know who’s the richest man in the world?” When I replied, “Yes, I know him personally,” my friend looked at me surprised, and exclaimed. “You know Bill Gates!” To which I related, “Bill’s the second richest man in the world, the richest man in the...
AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
Two times this past month I have been asked about the authority of Scripture and the authority of the sending church in the life of a B4Ter. This blog centers on the authority of Scripture in the church. Arron Curin writes on his blog: Imagine that we have a kingdom...
MENTORING
The following was contributed by a young man I work closely with. So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among...
DO B4Ters DOUBLE DIP?
Last month a pastor in the USA called me, a bit annoyed. He said, "I just learned our worker is being paid a good salary by the business he’s working for, yet we are still supporting him $2,500/month!" And this week I received the following question: My church has...
SECURE? SECURITY?
A B4T worker wrote me… Do you know the thing I feel most judged for in life from other workers? That I don't have a secure email or an encrypted hard drive. Just the other day a guy from Africa emailed me and said he knows these two great guys he met at a conference a...
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