The older I get, the more emotional I become. Lump in the throat, watery eyes, sheepishly blaming it on seasonal allergies (all year long) kind of moments. Maybe I’ve always been this sappy, maybe my three kids are just morphing into daily reminders of time’s fleeting...
This is a story of a Business as Mission (BAM) practitioner on the field using business as a mechanism for planting the church in areas of the world you can’t go with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done there, we will not share the...
This article was originally published at LiveDead.org and was reposted here with their permission. Our friends and partners at LiveDead give their lives to take the Gospel to the unreached people of the earth, often utilizing business and the marketplace to engage the...
Because of our global missions engagement, I’ve had to do a fair bit of international travel over the last 5 years. Long hours on airplanes is not easy, but I won’t lie, interacting with so many missionaries around the world is worth the countless stiff necks,...
Your job is a beautiful platform for the Gospel. I’m not just talking about putting a Bible on your desk, wearing a cross necklace to a business meeting, or displaying a 365 days of Scripture calendar in your office. All those things are fine and dandy, but I’m...
This article was originally published at LiveDead.org and was reposted here with their permission. Our friends and partners at LiveDead give their lives to take the Gospel to the unreached people of the earth, often utilizing business and the marketplace to engage the...
God’s sovereign will is unfolding all around us everyday in thousands of different ways we will never see or fully comprehend. Occasionally, He gives us a little glimpse into how He is orchestrating His Story in the world. This was one of those moments. Stone Table...
My wife and I packed up our life in one city and started over in another place. After a year learning Arabic and immersing ourselves in Arab culture, it was time to put these things to use. In some ways we felt very blessed. Here in our new city, we are taking up the...
When I looked at my calendar last week I noticed something unusual. There was nothing, literally zero little colored blocks, on the Saturday column. It was glorious discovery and I embraced it fully. I slept until I naturally woke up (which unfortunately isn’t very...
I took one for the team gentlemen. Hugh Jackman’s world tour came through Indianapolis this weekend, and I decided that taking my wife of 24 years to see this handsome triple-threat heartthrob was a great anniversary gift. She seemed to agree. It was 2 1/2 hours of...
“BAM is recapturing something old, not creating something new.” Hear from Erik Cooper as he explains business as mission is not a gimmick. It’s the real deal, and we expect to see more and more of it as the days unfold, and we see the Great Commission fulfilled.
There are a lot of “Gospel words” that we love to talk about. Words like; renew, regenerate, or resurrection, those are words we can get behind when it comes to our faith. But there is another word that we don’t like to talk about too much, but yet it’s equally as important. This week Erik shares with us what God has been speaking to him during this unique season of life.
In this video Greg Mundis of AGWM talks with Erik Cooper of The Stone Table, about how he was miraculously saved from Covid-19. Later on, they cover how missionaries are continuing through the pandemic and how to minister through disaster. They continue to talk about Business as Missions (BAM) and much more, you won’t want to miss it.