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.
TRANSPARENCY IN B4T
Every business needs a business plan, and most of us recognize this need when starting a business. But in planning and starting the business, we need to also include an exit strategy. I’ve been coaching a team that is restructuring its current business model to...
WOMEN WHO REACH OUT TO OTHERS
Our recent trip to Turkey gave us lots of opportunities to interact with couples actively involved in B4T. A couple of the wives there are involved in the business, while two even own their own business apart from their husband’s job. Several others had developed a...
THE NGO MODEL
I just returned from 2 weeks in Eastern Europe, where a team we have been working with for 4 years just completed the transition of moving from an NGO model to a business model. Let me state upfront that an NGO model is great for blessing communities and reaching...
TRANSPARENCY
For years we’ve been telling both cross-cultural workers and overseas professional Christian workers, who are sometimes called “missionaries,” that, due to the internet, in the future there won’t be any hiding your “missionary-identity.” The OPEN Network leaders have...
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,...
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