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Last week we introduced you to our “new baby” – the new IBEC Ventures website. This week I have the pleasure of showing off one of my favorite parts of the website: the Clients area! Clients are the reason that IBEC exists. Helping prospective IBEC clients find us and quickly connect with us is the […]

Beaming with pride and joy! That’s how we feel about introducing you to the new IBEC Ventures website. These proud parent feelings surprised me recently when I visited the new IBEC home page and paused to reflect on what I was seeing. There, before me, was a beautiful new creation, “fearfully and wonderfully made”, albeit

Many times we are asked questions about where we work. Sometimes we cannot be specific due to client confidentiality, but basically the countries are in the northern half of Africa, and in South and East Asia. Nepal is one of those countries. It is a unique country but in many ways it is typical of

The following is an extract from an article citing recent comments from Nobel Peace prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. Certainly job creation, poverty reduction and social enterprises which focus on the Quadruple Bottom Line (which includes making followers of Jesus) are foundational to Kingdom thinking and missional businesses. World’s growing inequality

My wife and I just returned from a two-week vacation in Maui, our first visit to that nostalgic island. While there we attended a slack-key guitar concert, coordinated by Grammy-award winning artist, George Kahumoku, Jr. with guitarists Peter DeAquino and Kawika Kahiapo. We enjoyed classical Hawaiian music but also heard historical details of the music

Situational Awareness is the ability to identify, process and understand critical pieces of information about what is happening with regard to the critical ‘mission’. Recent official reports of the cause of several aviation disasters have focused on ‘situational awareness’. In short, it means being aware of what is going on around you. For example, this

From time to time I am asked an important question. “I am interested in serving in a Kingdom business overseas, where can I go to prepare myself?” Some of the suggestions below are for those who are entrepreneurs, some are for others with a robust business background while others will be helpful to those with

IBEC board member, Dave Kier is the owner of a sizable feed company in Iowa. He writes blogs like this for his employees five days a week.  He is a wonderful example of a Kingdom business owner that keeps the Quadruple Bottom Line front and center. This writing of a few weeks ago reminds us

As I write this the University of Washington Husky football team is preparing to play the best college football team in the nation, Alabama’s Crimson Tide, on New Year&’s eve. It is a daunting challenge. But the Huskies earned it, finishing #4 in the college voting and earning a playoff spot along with Alabama, Ohio

A University of Scranton study suggests that 25% of New Year’s Resolution goals go by the wayside in the first week of the year and only 48% of people are sticking to them six months later. Only 8% actually achieve the goals during that year. I think that the New Year’s resolutions tradition as we