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Difference between Marketplace Ministry vs. Missionfield Businesses

• Tentmaker-the practice of Christians who support themselves financially by working as an employee

• Marketplace ministry / Breaking down the walls of the "sacred" and the "secular" / On the job relational evangelism

• Take your "natural giftings" and use them not only in the secular arena here but let them become sacred there- such as academics, health care, counselor, tailor, baker, musician, etc.

• Business AS missions- / - the business IS the missionary enterprise / it involves "job making" as a part of its vision

– Self sustainability for the ministry- referred to a Business FOR missions – For Favor of God

– Self sustainability for the individual and community

Defining Evangelistic Commerce

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Business as Missions What does it look like and why is it so relevant today?

• Sought after on the missions field- How average business people, can bring their business skills and greatly impact world evangelism and the transformation of communities

• A strategy for the specific purpose of the transformation of people and communities; spiritually, economically and socially - holistic empowerment

• Builds relationships / Blesses the local community broadly/ Blesses the local church specifically/ Grows a viable and sustainable business

• Rebuilding infrastructure within the church and community for expansion of the church.

• An entrance for the gospel through business into the 10/40 window.

• Business as Missions- from giving to self sustainability- it will even change how ministries are funded globally

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Effects and Outcomes of Business as Missions

• Builds the Kingdom- spiritual and political development• Kingdom principles that oppose the corruption eating

away at the foundation of Africa, which has been on all levels- government, church and business

• Redeveloping and transforming society in God’s name

• Empowering the church for multiplication and sending out missionaries

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Avenues for the Gospel (Market place Ministry)

• Relational evangelism

• Empowering the impoverished

• Unwrapping talents and restoring creativity in war torn areas

• Modeling Bible based business principles

• Enhances partnership in business community and ministry

• Targets high unemployment rates and can especially help the orphan and widow population

• Voice in the society

• Churches planted

• Funding other ministries

• Jobs created- dignity restored

• Economic, social, or community development

• Excellent product or service provided that helps the community

• Strengthening marginalized church and persecuted believers- discipleship of individuals

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Avenues for the Gospel (Market place Ministry) cont.

• Partners with local church in ministry

• Helps local entrepreneurs engage in economic spheres

• Increased personal giving to church and missions

• Stability and understandable role in the community

• % of profit available to grow business and enhance impact

• % of profit available to help fund other local ministries

• % of profit or use of salaries to benefit peoples income (widows, orphans, etc)

• Teaching independence and work ethics - people will value what they have to pay for

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Avenues for the Gospel (Market place Ministry) cont.

• Micro-enterprising: Provides business knowledge, experience, and skills – Small scale employment-micro entrepreneurs often

work alone or with unpaid family members– Hard Work-The simplicity of equipment and lack of

division of labor makes for much manual production

– Minimal capital input- Total investment ranges from $75 for sewing machines to several thousands for larger businesses like fish farming

– Local market- micro enterprises serve the needs of their neighbors and their communities

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Avenues for the Gospel (Market place Ministry) cont.

• Micro-enterprising: Provides business knowledge, experience, and skills

– Despite the small size and limited market of these businesses, micro enterprise is the largest and fastest growing part of the private sector. It is of immense importance to the economy of the developing world in the following ways:

• Employing 30-70% of the labor force in developing world countries

• Offering job opportunities to minority groups, women and the uneducated

• Providing needed products and services at a local level

• Supplying the larger scale industries with raw goods.

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Avenues for the Gospel (Market place Ministry) cont.

• Encouraging the entrepreneurs not only to give- tithe into the church/ but no go and help another, teach them what you’ve done, pass on the blessing, give of your time and skill, learn to impart

• Place of education in conjunction with business advancement: HIV training, literacy, and accountability – Systems- record systems and accountability in pay back teach

educational skills and the value of the business

• Enabling independence rather than strengthening dependency– Danger: Feeding independence and individualism. Good to

develop self identity, gifts, motivation, creativity), and THEN impart it to others, always with Kingdom building mindset. Independence if carried too far can defeat the vision or corporate business and church expansion.

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Ways of Implementation on the Field

• Training trainers in business / Schools of business- taught in the community churches / FOG staff as liaison

• Micro enterprise development / Farms concept- create own committee and own bank and own culturally relevant policies

• Investment with ongoing return- as it’s reinvested in ongoing business projects

• Empowering individuals and communities in sustainability (ABCD)

• Ministry sustainability- like sustaining FOG

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Getting Started

• Skills – Come and train trainers to do what you do in a simple way

• Teach business skills and sound business practices- record keeping and accountability

• Money- investment – into indigenous bank "committee" to start business projects on the ground- agriculture, poultry, pigs or goats, tailoring, mechanics, carpentry, fish farming, dress rental

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Getting Started cont.

• Invest and support FOG in larger self-sustaining projects- "fish pond fund"…..to help support the orphanage and other ministry projects

• Monthly support sponsor to get involved in FOG ministry concepts- training and equipping nationals to be sent north for church planting and community development in self sustaining projects (light of the gospel into Muslim countries, is also fighting terrorism- as a spiritual army)

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Additional Resources / Questions and Answers

• God is at Work-Transforming people and nations through business by Ken Eldred

• On Kingdom Business - Transforming missions through entrepreneurial strategies by Testunao Yamamori and Kenneth A. Eldred

• Business for the Glory of God -The Bible’s teaching on the moral goodness of business by Wayne Grudem

• Business as Missions -The Power of Business in the Kingdom of God by Michael Baer

• Great Commission Companies by Steve Rundle and Tom Steffen

• Business as Missions - From Impoverished to Empowered by Tom Steffen and Mike Barnett

• The Gods of Business - The Intersection of Faith and the Marketplace by Todd Albertson, MBS, PhD

• Tentmaking - Business as Missions by Patrick Lai

• Profit for the Lord by William J. Danker