February 1998 Update >
Business & Missions Event Planned
On March 8-11, 1998 the Central Asian Business
Consultation (CABC) will be held on the beautiful island of Cyprus, located just
southeast of Greece in the Mediterranean. The CABC, a project sponsored by INTERDEV
and the Association of Evangelical Ministries, in cooperation with International Mission
Board workers and other Great Commission Agencies, will inform you and challenge you to
engage your heart, your time, your talents and your resources. Contact Os Hillman at hillman@mindspring.com for more information.
See also the premier issue of The Global Marketplace at the Aslan
Group for AD 2000 Business & Missions Initiatives. (www.aslangroup.com) The CABC is also cosponsored by
the International Christian Chamber of Commerce. (ICCC).
Check out the Draft of the Program of the Workshop at CABC Draft
Number 3. The Business and Missions Side of the Workshop actually goes from March 7th
to 11th.
YWAM Center to sponsor Seminar in Entrepreneurial
and Economic Development
The Center for
Entrepreneurial and Economic Development (CEED) is sponsoring a seminar in April 1998.
This seminar is designed for persons with field based mission experience and/or experience
in business management, who intend to be involved in business multiplication through
business creation or training. The seminar will be 3 weeks of intense, interactive
training with business, law, and missions leaders providing practical tools for immediate
implementation. .Please the CEED
Seminar page for more information or e mail: CEED_UofN@compuserve.com
Scruples Launches Secure Business & Missions
site.
Scruples has launched a web site dedicated to Business and Missions Initiatives. The site
is a protected site and can only be accessed with a password. It is located at www.scruples.org/bizetmiz . Please contact me
at scruples@csi.com if you are interested in
visiting the site. (Please let me know a little about you.:)) Items featured on the
site are: Business & Missions Success Stories (and Horror Stories!); Ten Tips for
using your Profession as a Passport; Success Factors in Business and Missions Initiatives
and much more. Please e mail me so that you can visit it. You might also want to
check out the Business and Missions Resources at the Scruples Site. The Directory
Page lists 40 plus
Ministries that facilitate Marketplace Christians into Missions. The Resources Page
lists several books on Tentmaking
activity including Jonathan Lewis-- .
Working Your Way to the Nations: A Guide to Effective Tentmaking.
YWAM Business and Missions Initiative launches
Business People into former Soviet Union
Christian missionaries are being trained in business principles. Students from Romania,
Germany, and the Russian Republics recently attended a four-week Youth With a Mission
program designed to help them develop small business skills so they can go to developing
countries where missionaries are not always welcome. "Business can take you places
that other activities sometimes cannot," said Mark Markiewicz, who directed the first
Christian School of Entrepreneurs. "Some countries may not welcome traditional
missionaries, but none are closed to business," he said. A good Christian business
can lead others around you to ask, "Why are you here?" and "Why are you
honest?" which presents opportunities to share the faith, Markiewicz said. The
courses are offered twice a year in England. Contact Mark Markiewicz at markm@holmsted.org.uk for more information.
The Ethics of Shrewdness
Don't be ethically naive, the marketplace
needs shrewd Christians. Check out Scruples latest publication on the Ethics
of Shrewdness from Matthew 10:16. How can Christians survive in an unethical
marketplace? Only by being ethically shrewd! Some would say that shrewdness and ethics are
opposites but to Jesus it is the calling of the Marketplace Christian. Read some comments
and criticisms of this paper at the Scruples
Forum on Marketplace Ethics.
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