Larger-Sized Business as Mission Companies

An Important Subset of Fulfilling the Great Commission

Articles & Papers: Large Sized BAM

Dwight Nordstrom & Vince Liang

September 2009

Connections Journal Vol. 8,2

WEA Mission Committee

Looking at various approaches of using business in mission and the role of larger-sized businesses in the work of the Great Commission.

Today as a greater number of business initiatives are integrated with the purpose of fulfilling the Great Commission (GC), there exists a wide spectrum of Business as Mission companies. Historically, when a person or a mission agency decided on using business in conjunction with a long-term incarnational presence in a creative access area, there were two options considered –stand-alone tentmaking in a placed job or micro-financing.