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BAM business consultants and mentors Greg and Alice recently returned to North America from a country in Asia, where they support nationals in their startup projects.  Greg shared that the greatest joy was to meet national workers who are flourishing under great odds and adversity. One of the businesspersons they are mentoring is a feed […]

  A diamond can be described as a precious gemstone.  The prophet Ezekiel validated diamonds as precious stones (Ezek. 28:13), and Malachi suggests that God makes his precious ones as jewels (Malachi 3:17). So, a diamond is a stone, right?  A House of Diamonds means a place of dwelling for precious diamonds, right? Not always!

This is the final post in the 5-part Business as Mission A-Z.  Last week we shared section P-T; today U-Z. Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com     U – Untapped The Church is bigger than we think. If we want to see holistic transformation through business for generations to come, we

This is the fourth in the 5-part Business as Mission A-Z.  Last week we shared section K-O; today P-T. Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com     P – Power Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saks said, ”Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task”. There

This is the third in the 5-part Business as Mission A-Z.  Last week we shared section F-J; today K-O. Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com     K – Kingdom Christ is Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all. The early Church confessed Christos Kyrios – Christ is Lord.

September is considered Labor Day in the United States and Canada. With its roots in the labor movement in the late 19th Century, the day commemorates the workers with celebration and holiday. Earlier this year, I completed a project started as an award by the Pollard Fellowship.  My goal was to study the ServiceMaster Company

This is the second in the 5-part Business as Mission A-Z.  Last week we shared section A-E; today F-J and we will continue in September. Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com     F – Freedom Winston Churchill said: “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a

Mats Tunehag has given permission to use this ingenious description of Business as Mission A-Z.  We will share in five weekly blogs, two in August and three in September. This week will be the first in the series: A-E. Larry W. Sharp, BAM Support Specialist, IBEC Ventures Larry.Sharp@ibecventures.com     A – Avodah The Hebrew

There is a lot of startup lingo in the startup world, and I have tried to capture here some of the most commonly used terms.  The list is not exhaustive, and the two links will give many more terms. I have built this list from the articles listed below along with my own terms which

There are many components to a startup anywhere in the world, but a business endeavoring to be a Kingdom company achieving the Quadruple Bottom Line has extra requirements.  Those requirements help to ensure the integration of faith and work so that both “mission” and “business” achieve results.  These seven questions are frequently used at the