The Beersheba Project is changing the landscape of Senegal through agricultural techniques and discipleship of young farmers. United World Mission has missionaries serving on this multi-ethnic, multi-agency project. Check out their story…
Aaron & Sara Toombs, Serving in Senegal
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Most missionaries can wholeheartedly agree that this missionary life can keep us very busy. Leading, teaching, preaching, preparing, accounting and administration are just a few things that fill our days and our schedule. So much so that sometimes we forget to stop for the one right in front of us (the one we came to…
Watch this video to learn how business and entrepreneurship provide much better solutions for community development and poverty alleviation than aid.
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to exchange some emails with a friend who has a passion for business and mission and is affiliated with a mission organization overseas. While starting off as more of a traditional missionary approach, in his 20 year career as a business consultant he has been a part…
See how entrepreneurs and interns (short and long-term) can make an impact in Business As Mission.
How God used business conversations to soften the heart of one man, then others… Three rough male characters from one extended family have slowly made their way into my life, and none of us are the same for it. The construction project management company that I own has facilitated contact with many people, both believers and unbelievers.…
Some people find it confusing to read about socially conscious business, social entrepreneurship or values-driven business. Isn’t business just business – driven by profit margins acceptable to shareholders? What’s all this talk of values, social impact and community development? For the past decade or so, it has become increasingly popular to talk about social purposes,…
In the late 1990s one of United World Mission’s partner ministries came alongside a group of 12 women in rural Costa Rica to help them start a micro-business: the Association of Women in Biolley (ASOMOBI). Most of these women grew coffee on their small, family farms, and they wanted to create one central location to…
For over eighty years the NGO Roblealto has served children-at-risk in San Jose, Costa Rica. Its business segment operates a profitable business-as-mission model called La Granja (The Farm). La Granja combines creative entrepreneurial practices with a missions focus to build profitable businesses which provide resources for marginalized families. Last year they contributed $400,000 from business…
Many business professionals and church leaders today are hearing of the term “Business as Mission” (BAM). While there are many variances to a perfect definition, I like the expression of J.D. Greear of the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, NC, “Christians in the marketplace today are able to gain access more easily to strategic, unreached places.…