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It started 45 years ago when Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, living near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, gave 50 newly hatched chicks to their seven-year-old son, Peter.  “See what you can do with them,” they said.  By the time he was 17 years, he was raising 10,000 chicks a week and was on his way to a successful […]

In the early 1970’s I was living, along with my family, in the Brazilian Amazon port city of Belem where I was the administrator of a school for children of expatriates. The Amazon Valley Academy is a K-12 school following an American curriculum but also in the 1970s and 80s taught a German program for […]

This is the time of year when we celebrate America and the freedoms which exist here because of the founders of yesteryear.  However, we are reminded by recent events that many in our country and around the world do not feel the freedoms that many of us have experienced. Mats Tunehag’s article from April 23rd, […]

My wife’s favorite food group is chocolate, and I sometimes think that it is also her “Love Language.”  She can tell the difference between Cadbury’s, Hersheys, Swiss Lindt and Brazilian Garoto with her eyes shut, and her favorite is See’s of California. So my interest was piqued recently when reading how See’s Candy became Warren […]

When I was a collegiate hockey player, it never dawned on me that I might not need a coach. Not only did the coaches help me with personal skill development like skating, passing, shooting, and checking, but also how to develop my team play so together we could be successful.  Although I had good coaches […]

IBEC Board member, Dave Kier is a businessman with wise counsel on many, many subjects.  This is an article which he distributed in March of this year and is well worth sharing here on this blog. Thanks, Dave, for blessing, encouraging and teaching Kingdom Business leaders in ways like this.  It is entitled, “Indebtedness.” Larry […]

The term “liminal” means to be in an intermediate state, phase, or condition.  The root term limen come from the Latin means “threshold”.  Its first use was by an ethnographer, Arnold van Gennep, who connected it to three rites of passage:  the separation or detachment from a stable environment; the margin which is an ambiguous […]

This blog by Mats Tunehag was published in November 2016, but it seems very relevant to our current environment. We continue to appreciate his contribution to the Kingdom of God and the BAM world. –Larry Sharp, Director of Training, IBEC Ventures larry.sharp@ibecventures.com —– The prospects were not good. Actually really bad, even disastrous. The city […]

Or does it? Yes, I saw it in action – in one of the poorest countries in Africa – Zimbabwe. We asked agricultural student, Anthony, “what is happening here at Ebenezer school – and why are you here?” It is always great when the respondent has a crystal-clear answer.  Without hesitation Anthony responded, “I have […]

This is the first of a series by Mark Polet, to help bring people to an understanding that the most spiritually and materially impoverished people also face the most existential environmental challenges. Some BAM companies are already working in these environmentally challenged areas and may not be aware of the risks they face even to […]