January 2023

This week, we are featuring an insightful post pertaining to Connecting Kingdom Investors with BAM Practitioners, written by IBEC Managing Director, Bob Bush. We are continually blessed by his Christlike wisdom and leadership. Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com —– God is doing amazing things with Business as Mission, and one of […]

Sometimes, I encounter people who have never heard of Business as Mission, and even more commonly, people who fail to grasp the whole picture. This true case study is factual in every way except that names and locations have been fictionalized because of certain political risks. Year 1:  Twenty-four years ago in Asia, Many Sparrows,

My mother said, ‘The world needs to know what happened to me so that it does not happen to anyone else.’ In the community where I was born, the majority of families struggle to meet their daily needs of food, education, and medical care. Our family was no different. So, my mother, a talented seamstress,

In 2010, President Obama designated January as NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION MONTH. It was established with the intention of re-dedicating ourselves to the prevention and ending of human trafficking – in all is its forms. Human trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar business, trading in people. Fifty million people are enslaved worldwide, and 80% of those rescued

This Leadership Tip by IBEC board member, Dave Kier, perhaps would be better read in December. Yet, it is still valid for the first month of the year.  It is not too late to do a “managers analysis.” Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com How do you close out a year?  A