THE TRANSFORMATIONAL PLAN (Building a Business Plan, Part 5)

THE TRANSFORMATIONAL PLAN (Building a Business Plan, Part 5)

This is the last part in a series of 5 on writing business plans. Integrating your business plan with your ministry plan is a non-negotiable. You may write them as one proposal or as two separate plans, but when presented to Christian investors and churches they need...
FIZA IS FOLLOWING JESUS

FIZA IS FOLLOWING JESUS

I received this encouraging update from an OPEN worker in the Middle East. Fiza is a long-term employee who became a believer 3 years ago. All names have been changed. “How are you doing?” I asked, feeling a bit guilty because I didn’t know the...
START WITH WHO

START WITH WHO

This post is submitted by a B4T worker in the Arab world. In his book, Start With Why, Simon Sinek lays out a central problem of companies and organizations: they start with the wrong question. Asking “what” or “how” before “why” can lead you to do so many things that...
INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 3.0

INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 3.0

This is the final article in a 3-part series on integrity in business which has been contributed by a worker in Turkey. We have defined integrity as “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles” and “the state of being whole and undivided.” It may...
INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 2.0

INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 2.0

This is the second article in a 3-part series on integrity in business, which has been contributed by a worker in Turkey. In most Muslim countries, both the people and the governments are closed to Christian activities . . . or are they? Is there a kind of Christian...
INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 1.0

INTEGRITY IN BUSINESS 1.0

This is the first article in a 3-part series on integrity in business, which has been contributed by a worker in Turkey. We all intend and assume that whatever we do, we do with integrity. But do we? After almost 30 years living in a Muslim country and watching many...