December 2015

Earlier this week we cited developments in honor of the past year (2015) in IBEC’s growth and development.  We thank God for those accomplishments and we now want to build upon them as we embrace 2016. Four months ago at our annual retreat we affirmed our purpose statement: We help build sustainable businesses through consultative […]

I was speaking at a large Christian university in the eastern USA last month and I saw a large engraving in one of the buildings, “Honor the past – Embrace the future”.  Let’s do that as this week we honor this past year in IBEC’s life and next week we will embrace the future. “The

Have you ever set out to check on something only to discover that you should have known the answer?  It just happened to me.  I wanted to check all the countries were IBEC has served and see what their Christmas traditions were.  Well, duh!  From the beginning IBEC has tried to serve the most unreached

My wife and I, being true Northerners, had never observed cotton growing on a plantation until just recently.  Those fuzzy bolls of soft cotton intrigued me to think about the history of cotton in America. Even though cotton had been grown in the South from colonial times, by the 1790’s rice, tobacco and indigo dominated