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...
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...
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,...
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...
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” 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,...
