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.
START-UP FUNDING – HOW TO?
Business is a key for getting workers into some of the most unreached places in the world. Cities, countries, which are inaccessible to mission work, Christian NGOs, and Christian charities are open to business. One of the greatest needs of those seeking to start...
THE RESULTS ARE IN
The following is an email from my friend Bob. It’s a good word for all of us. This morning after the election, I woke up semi-depressed. My candidate hadn't won. (Hopefully yours did.) I knew I needed to get right with the Lord. In my quiet time, the Lord began to...
THE PARABLE OF THE TWO FARMERS
One autumn a wealthy landowner hired two tenant farmers and gave them each a field, strictly commanding them ... him a good harvest the next ... Through the cold winter nothing grew except the tenants' visions of a bountiful harvest in the new season, and by April...
IT’S A NEW DAY
After my good friend Dick taught a Perspectives Course on B4T, one student commented, "I'm so frustrated about today! I joined the church staff 3 years ago because I believed if I wanted my life to mean something I needed to work for a church. I had 15 years of hotel...
OUR TRUE VOCATION
Three weeks ago I spoke at California Baptist College and Biola University to classes of business students. Students in both classes were asking, “How does a Christian find God’s true vocation?” There are several things I shared with these students. The word...
BE BETTER
“Be Better” was a main theme at the OPEN Connect last month. The admonishment to be better wasn’t meant in a striving or legalistic way, but to truly ask God how we each can be better in every area of our life and work (prayer, marriage, witnessing, business,...
BAM/B4T IS HOT!
“BAM is hot (in South America). And now B4T! I love it!” exclaimed Jose, to a friend who just arrived for our meeting. He enthusiastically went on, “B4T can get us where missionaries are not welcome. It provides us with a job, a real job, and that gives us much more...
OPEN EXPO LA!
The OPEN Expo in LA just ended. God showed up once again! He gave us a terrific weekend of networking, sharing and being sharpened and challenged to fulfill His purposes in and through us. There were 140 attendees making this the smallest OPEN Expo. We felt this...
OPEN CONNECT COUNTDOWN
The countdown is on. Tomorrow we (Dave & Patrick) leave for Bogota to be part of the first OPEN Expo outside of North America. This will be the largest BAM/B4T gathering ever held in South America. We are pumped! The messages and workshops will be centered on...
OUTSOURCING – UPGRADING MISSIONS
This past weekend I was invited to lead workshops on B4T at the Missio-Nexus; a conference of 250+ evangelical CEOs of mission organizations and other leaders. I shared a vision for doing missions better; a vision that focuses on the need for each mission agency to...
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