by Mats Tunehag Most businesses are local, and daily problem solving often comes to the forefront. Understandably so. But from time to time, we need to review our mission, and remind ourselves about our greater vision. BAM is about holistic transformation of people, businesses, industries and nations. This implies several things. We need to: 1. […]
by Mats Tunehag I hope very few people will talk about Business as Mission (BAM) in the future. The term is like scaffolding; it is needed for a season as we build a new paradigm and praxis: businesses that glorify God and bring about holistic transformation of people and societies. The term BAM has its […]
by Mats Tunehag There’s no place like home. The vast majority of all human beings prefer the familiar, to stay close to family, use our own language, eat familiar food, operate within our own culture and enjoy known surroundings. Home is our default. That is both natural and okay. Using the language of the bible, […]
by Larry Sharp This past month we have been featuring stories from Larry Sharp. Larry’s new book ‘Mission Disrupted: From Professional Missionaries to Missionary Professionals’ tells 27 stories and is out now! Matt lives in a crowded city in Asia’s largest country where his business demands a driver to take him from place to place. […]
by Larry Sharp This month we are featuring stories from Larry Sharp. Larry’s new book ‘Mission Disrupted: From Professional Missionaries to Missionary Professionals’ tells 27 stories and is out now! Abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Gloria was forced to be a child soldier in northern Uganda. Although girls sometimes carried rifles on the […]
by Larry Sharp This month we are featuring stories from Larry Sharp. Larry’s new book ‘Mission Disrupted: From Professional Missionaries to Missionary Professionals’ tells 27 stories and is out now! Some years ago, I found coffee in a tea-loving country in central Asia, which I will call Tealand, at the Capital Roasting Company (CRC). Tea […]
by Larry Sharp This month we are featuring stories from Larry Sharp. Larry’s new book ‘Mission Disrupted: From Professional Missionaries to Missionary Professionals’ tells 27 stories and is out now! On October 18, 2018 Prince Harry and Meghan landed in the outback of Australia as the first stop in their royal visit to that country. […]
by Larry Sharp This month we are featuring stories from Larry Sharp. Larry’s new book ‘Mission Disrupted: From Professional Missionaries to Missionary Professionals’ tells 27 stories and is out now! 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 […]
by Don Simmons Many of us suffer from a “scarcity” mindset in which we believe that life is a finite pie and if one person takes a big piece, there will be less for everyone. Counter to this is an “abundance” mindset in which there is plenty available for everyone. The Apostle Paul challenges the […]
by Don Simmons In my previous post I offered the good news of engaging in worldwide missions through investing into missional businesses. In order to effectively move capital from where it is stored up (retirement accounts, charitable funds, savings accounts) to where it is in short supply (SMEs in emerging markets, corrupt communities, or impoverished […]
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 […]