The day of my accident began normally, with the early morning sun poking holes through the makeshift shade my husband rigged up the night before. Daylight came early in Honduras so no alarm clock was needed to get us up and going. Our missions team had come to...
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 where you can’t do that with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done we will not be...
It’s August in Indiana and that means corn around every corner. Where the modern world has not yet stomped in to plop down a strip mall or housing addition, there grows corn taller than most men. The farmers rejoice because 2018 has been a bumper year for the farmer...
I was a musician in a prior life. A music pastor actually. It was a beautiful season of life, a season where I was able to leverage gifts for the piano, music composition, and arranging that I had been cultivating since I was a little boy. It was also a season where I...
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 where you can’t do that with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done we will not be...
I went looking for happiness, but she’s hard to chase down. I pursued her through hidden corridors and back alleys, occasionally catching the faint gleam of her beautiful hair blowing in the early morning light. But to no avail. She was there and then she was gone....
Hundreds of millions of believers around the world find time to spend time with God every day. Pretty cool to think about right? Devotional time, devos, quiet time, abiding time, Jesus time, alone time, or whatever we else call it in the church is a dedicated time...
The Gospel is going to the unreached places, to places we are taught to fear and cultures we often shun. There is a true awakening taking place amongst Muslims! They are coming to Jesus like never before, quite literally by the thousands. But it isn’t without cost....
Have you noticed who the villains are in the majority of movies and TV shows today? The Lego Movie was terrorized by Lord Business, who longs to destroy lego world by gluing all the pieces together. Wall Street introduced us to Gordon Gecko, who coined the infamous...
We love leveraging business and entrepreneurship to fulfill The Great Commission! One of our favorite missions investments over the past few years was a Crossfit Gym that is successfully planting a church in an area of the world where church planting is illegal. This...
Every Believer should be
Praying for the unreached people groups
Giving to the unreached people groups
Reaching out to the unreached people in their community
Ever wondered what the Bible had to say about business? As believers, we must understand that God created us to take care of his creation and we are to carry His kingdom into the broken world. Listen as we hear Erik Cooper share some Bible verses about entrepreneurship and business.
In a recent discussion with the president of North Central University, President Scott Hagan stressed the importance of training up the next generation of educators, scientists, engineers, and business leaders of all kinds to be released into the mission field. According to missionary leaders and strategists, marketplace graduates are vital to engaging the Great Commission around the world. Business as Mission is a vital part of global missiology in the 21st Century.