by Don Simmons I want to challenge those of us who have achieved basic financial competency and have plans in place for our investments to earn financial returns. If we truly believe that God owns all of our resources, we must believe that includes our investment holdings as well. We need to become God’s steward […]
by Don Simmons To the BAM Global audience: thank you for the chance to engage with you this month through a series of blogs dedicated to themes of investing God’s resources for eternal impact. I have been a financial planner for over three decades and a follower of Jesus during my entire career. In recent […]
by Larry Sharp Read this classic blog from our Archives, first published on The BAM Review blog in January 2016 and republished for the Summer Series 2022. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Stories from the Frontline Last year I was leading a seminar in a conference in Arizona, when a local business owner […]
by James Waters Five years ago, I quit my job to explore whether it was possible to measure the Kingdom of God coming through businesses and non-profits all over the world. My background was researching and helping the largest secular development organisations understand if they were being effective. I had seen how measuring complex aspects […]
by James Waters & Jo Plummer As part of the lead-in to the BAM Global Congress last year, BAM Global, in partnership with Eido Research, conducted the State of the BAM Movement Survey to get a snapshot of the global business as mission movement. Watch James’ Video Introduction here. In response to the Survey, Eido […]
Video Presentation by James Waters James Waters of Eido Research shares some preliminary findings from the results of the State of the BAM Movement Survey – recorded at the BAM Global Congress in April 2021. >>Download State of the Movement Report Here
by Dave Kahle How do I Integrate my Christian faith with day-to-day business practices? This is a question almost every Christian professional and businessperson considers regularly. The answer isn’t simple, and it varies from time to time and place to place. The Christian life is a journey and we focus one step at a […]
by Mark Polet “And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. When the people saw the sign that he had […]
Video Presentation by Mark Polet The people we want to reach are facing the greatest environmental, even existential challenges. BAMers are on the ground already in the areas of greatest need. This presentation explores how to meet these challenges with the Hope we share and the technical capabilities we can access. >>More on Creation Care […]
by Caroline Pomeroy Last month I visited a lively Anglican church in my local town. It was ‘Mission Sunday’ and to illustrate this to the children, the leader stuck post-it notes onto a giant inflatable globe, each yellow note signifying one of the church’s mission partners. He then asked people to remind him what Mark […]
by Mats Tunehag We know we are to be good stewards of creation. Those are God’s instructions to humans in Genesis 1 & 2 – especially Gen.1:28, often known as the ‘creation mandate’ (also ‘cultural mandate). In the Business as Mission (BAM) movement we typically talk about the quadruple bottom line of social, spiritual, environmental […]
by Mats Tunehag Part 3 of a 3 part series on Business as Mission: Roots, Scope & Future. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. BHAGs: Big Hairy Audacious Goals We have briefly reviewed the BAM concept’s historical roots, and painted a picture, albeit incomplete, of the scope and nature of the global BAM movement. Now, […]
by Mats Tunehag Part 2 of a 3 part series on Business as Mission: Roots, Scope & Future. Read Part 1 here. Why is There a BAM Movement? Each generation has to review and highlight old-age concepts and truths and see how they apply to today’s context. That includes various arenas and constituencies, like business, church, […]
by Mats Tunehag Part 1 of a 3 part series on Business as Mission: Roots, Scope & Future She was amazed and perplexed at the same time. She was treated with respect and dignity. She was a woman challenged with disabilities. But her life had changed. With little or no prospect of ever getting a job, […]
by Jeff Hostetter & Evan Keller of Creating Jobs Inc As we begin a new year, we are posting some ‘foundational’ material on our biblical foundations for business as mission and how we respond to God’s call in each of our individual lives and circumstances. Want a tool for 2022 growth? In the tradition of […]
by Andy Mills, co-chair of the Theology of Work Project As we begin a new year, we are posting some ‘foundational’ material on our biblical foundations for business as mission and how we respond to God’s call in each of our individual lives and circumstances. Andy became a Christian as a CEO, and he felt […]
As we begin a new year, we are posting some ‘foundational’ material on our biblical foundations for business as mission and how we respond to God’s call in each of our individual lives and circumstances. by Peter Shaukat Christians are called by God to bring servant leadership in the marketplace. There is critical need for […]
by Francis Tsui >> Read Part 1, How Business has Transformed Nations and Lifted People Out of Poverty in China and East Asia Continuing from Part 1, this article explores BAM as an effective mission strategy for missional impact in urban Asia, especially as we aim to reach a tipping point for macro impact through BAM companies. Increasingly […]
by Francis Tsui How have businesses, especially SMEs, transformed nations and lifted people out of poverty in China and East Asia? What were critical and contributing factors? More than 1.5 billion people, about 38% of the population of Asia or 22% of the world population, live in geographic East Asia. The region is one […]
As part of our continuing series on ‘BAM: A Global Glimpse’ we revisit this article by Joseph Vijayam. In 2013 I was on a business trip in Jakarta. One afternoon my host asked if I would join him for a gathering of believers in his office building. To my surprise, this was not a small gathering of […]
by Mats Tunehag U – Untapped The Church is bigger than we think. If we want to see holistic transformation through business for generations to come, we need to recognize the scope of the Church, and think strategically. There are about 2.4 billion Christians in the world; every third person on the planet has some […]
by Mats Tunehag P – Power Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saks said, ”Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task”. There are of course different kinds of poverty and wealth. One can be financially rich but socially poor. One can be endowed with great intellect but suffer from […]
by Mats Tunehag K – Kingdom Christ is Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all. The early Church confessed Christos Kyrios – Christ is Lord. [1] It was revolutionary when the greeting was supposed to be Kaiser Kyrios – the Emperor is Lord. [2] May God’s Kingdom come – may Christ the King […]
by Mats Tunehag F – Freedom Winston Churchill said: “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Today tens of millions of people around the world are held as slaves, they are victims of human trafficking. A root cause to is unemployment. […]
by Mats Tunehag A – Avodah The Hebrew word avodah is used interchangeably for work, worship and service. Business as Mission, BAM, is a seamless integration of work, worship and service. A few Bible references: Six days you shall work (avodah). – Exodus 34:21 This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so […]
Have you ever felt an urgency to make a positive impact on the world, but not known where to start? On the one hand, the Scriptures confront us with eternal realities; yet on the other hand, the news is packed with statistics and updates, challenging us to be global citizens. It is easy to be […]
The effects of the coronavirus are disruptive beyond comprehension. The situation is changing by the hour. The consequences vary from difficult to dire for billions of people, and nobody knows what the timeline is for this crisis. Media across the world updates us constantly on the negative effects on businesses and on people’s lives, so […]
During our November Webinars last week for the BAM Global Congress Pre-Series, Mats Tunehag had the privilege of interviewing eight BAM leaders in a series of three Fireside Chats, on the theme of building ecosystems and networks that will help BAM companies launch and thrive. As part of this series, Mats interviewed Tom, Dwight and […]
If you have been in the entrepreneurial world for very long, you have likely heard the words “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems” pop up more and more in the last few years. And for good reason! Ecosystem theory has begun to change the way we think about entrepreneurship in general with the Kauffman Foundation, CoStarters, InBia, and others […]
We are revisiting some of the classic material from The BAM Review blog on governance, accountability and the support that a BAM practitioner needs around them to thrive. Dear BAM Mentor, I keep hearing that having an Advisory Board is good idea for a BAM company. How is an advisory board different from other […]