The 10/40 Window - By FEBC. Introduction to the 10/40 Window. Heart of the 10 X 40 Window. Unreached Peoples Do You Know The Real Deal. "10/40" Window ...Mission Impossible? Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power. World Watch List | North Korea Country Profile (2010) The 10-40 Window Why Japan? Christian Missions in India - "This is India"
The 10/40 Window: New mission opportunities – Dialogue. By Pat Gustin Windows have always intrigued me. Curtain-fringed windows. Bay windows overflowing with flowering plants. Windows with shutters closing tightly against a storm. Windows barred to keep out danger. Windows stained to convey beauty or a message. Windows. But consider another window—a special one, behind which live millions of people, scattered in thousands of “homes” in scores of countries. Towards the beginning of the last decade, mission strategists and planners from Christian churches around the world began to take a serious look at the task facing them.
How are Christians doing? As mission leaders looked carefully at the issues involved in reaching the globe for the Master, several facts of both joy and concern have become apparent. Christian mission has been extremely successful in much of the world. Now, the facts of concern: What is the 10/40 Window? This is where a majority of the world’s population lives. Adventists and the 10/40 Window What can we do? 1. 2. 3. 4. 10/40 Window Christian Missions Trips & Opportunities. The 10/40 Window is a section of the world located between latitudes 10 degrees and 40 degrees north of the equator. It covers the Middle East, North Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and holds two-thirds of the world's population. The window also contains the world's most unreached people groups, and most of the world's governments who oppose Christianity. The 10/40 Window bears the world's greatest physical and spiritual needs.
The Middle East Think of all the Middle Eastern countries. The Middle East is a diverse area of peoples and geography, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to Pakistan in the east. Economic and political differences separate and differentiate these countries and peoples. Linguistically, the Middle East countries have rich divisions. This land of origins, history, and conflict needs prayer. Opportunities Education Medical Education Information Technology Healthcare Business North Africa Stop for a minute and pray for North Africa.
Central Asia. Preparing the Younger Generation for Missions in the 10/40 Window | Lausanne World Pulse Archives. There is a small area of the world that extends from ten degrees to forty degrees north of the equator and stretches from North Africa to China. Two-thirds of the world’s population (nearly four billion people) live inside this rectangular-shaped band. Here you will find the largest population of non-Christians and ninety percent of the world’s poorest people. This area is known as the 10/40 Window. Unfortunately, many Christians are not eager to go to this part of the world. The Beginnings of a Movement to the 10/40 Window In 2000, Chuck Phillips was asked to help Passion Ministries put on an event in the United States called One-Day, where fifty thousand Christian college students gathered on a field to pray for their colleges, their nation and the world. Phillips immediately shared with his pastor what God was stirring in his heart. Students today desire to make a lasting difference.
The missional life remains as mystical and abstract as heaven itself. Mission 360˚ - The 10/40 Window. The Great Commission. 2. WORLD MISSION ADVENTIST: February - Focus on the 10/40 Window - 2014 | 1Q. Lost: Unreached People of Asia. Business as Mission Resource Team - YWAM Thailand. Championing the role of business in God’s plan for the world We serve the business as mission community globally by creating and curating resources, nurturing networks and developing training: Training – conferences and courses that equip people for business as missionNetworking – connecting people to people and people to resources so that the work is more effectiveResourcing – we create new resources and help people discover other resources from across the BAM community Read more about the BAM Resource Team and how we are currently serving the global business as mission movement We offer three different training options to equip people for the next step in their BAM journey.
IBAM Impact Three days of equipping and networking with business owners, business professionals and mission leaders all looking to take the next step in BAM. IBAM Explore A three week course designed to help BAM entrepreneurs and business builders get ready to launch. Business DTS. BAM Websites - Business as Mission Websites | Bamedu.
Overview: Businessasmissions.com is a site that focuses on the topic of Business as Missions. The site has tons of resources, as well as, offering training courses, recommended articles and books. Read more Overview: Think Tank is a forum for people involved in or interested in business as mission as a viable part of the Great Commission. They emphasize 5 key areas: “listen”, “learn”, “connect”, “share”, and “recommend” to gain perspective globally. According to their website: “The Think Tank has opened up a unique forum for connection and collaboration on business as mission, bringing together practitioners and thought-leaders from around the world.”
Read more Overview: Transformational Ventures comes alongside already existing transformational endeavors and seeks to provide jobs through small and medium business. According to their website: “Small and medium scale businesses provide jobs and play an important role in a community’s life and economy. Read more Read more Read more Read more. BAM Tools & Tests | Bamedu. Missionary Profile Test One of the key components of any effective BAM company is to have a heart for the nations – a missionary heart!
Here are 25 questions to test your heart… Take the test now. Strength Finder Test The premise behind the book and test is to discover your strengths. Once you know your strengths, you can begin to focus on working more in each of these 5 areas. SWOT Analysis Chart If you are looking to do a SWOT Analysis of your Kingdom Business, you can use this free chart to help you visualize your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Porter’s Five Forces This analysis will help you to understand the competitiveness and attractiveness of the market for your business idea. Business as Mission Books - Recommend Reading for BAM | Bamedu.
7 Reasons Tentmaking Businesses Fail Overview: Toby Miles wrote the book 7 Reasons Tentmaking Businesses Fail after learning valuable lessons on what makes a tentmaking business succeed. He addresses 7 key areas with real life stories. Reading this will help the BAM entrepreneur think through important issues before entering Business as Mission. Read more Loving Mondays Overview: Bring meaning to replace the drudgery of work. From the back of the book: “Instead of grinding it out until Friday and living only for weekends, a successful Ohio manufacturing executive has seen how his work can be filled with meaning and purpose. Read more On Kingdom Business: Transforming Missions through Entrepreneurial Strategies Overview Unreached people are primarily concerned for their ability to work and/or advance economically. Read more Great Commission Companies Overview The authors offer a model for bringing together business and mission in Great Commission Companies.
Read more Read more Read more. Fortune 500 Mission Statements. Fortune 500 companies are the biggest and best run in the nation. That's because they remain tightly focused on delivering quality in a competitive market. If you want to learn from the best, there are plenty of lessons waiting in these mission statements. 6443 Iron Bridge Road Richmond, VA 23234 We're Ready in Advance Advanced Auto Parts, Inc. is a company that provides customers with automotive products and services, which include diagnosing vehicle problems and doing repair work It is the Mission of Advance Auto Parts to provide personal vehicle owners and enthusiasts with the vehicle related products and knowledge that fulfill their wants and needs at the right price. 1932 Wynnton Road Columbus, GA 31999 Aflac insurance policies may help you with those expenses not covered by your major medical plan.
Aflac is a supplemental insurance company in the US. AGCO Corporation 4205 River Green Parkway Duluth, GA, USA 30096 A World of Solutions for your Growing Needs Albertson's, Inc. 250 E. 50 E. What does BAM, India, & BCF have in common? | Bayou City Fellowship. This past fall, I asked Jason Melton and AK Kuruvilla (two leaders in our church) to go to Bangalore, India on a vision trip for 10 days to explore how Bayou City Fellowship can mobilize our business men and women (which I believe to be one of our church’s greatest resource) to impact the unreached business class of India. I asked Jason Melton to give a little bit of recap of their time and experience in India on our blog today. Jason is a father of 4, a brilliant businessman, the Lakes on Eldridge Community Group leader, and faithfully serves in so many areas in our church.
It was an honor to send him to represent Bayou City Fellowship with our global partners in India. – Alicia Divers- Mobilization Pastor. BAM – three months ago I had no idea what that meant. Fellow Bayou City Fellowship member A. So what was the K-ROI of our trip to Bangalore, the “Silicon Valley” of India? 2) Many Christian missionaries around the world are on business visas, by necessity. 3) Indian food is great. Read - Mission to the World. Do Business for God - Christian Finances, Money Management, Debt. Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Jeff Van Duzer's book, Why Business Matters to God (And What Still Needs to Be Fixed), (InterVarsity Press, 2010).
Business is much more than just a way to make money. It's work that matters to God - work that can be a valuable part of helping to redeem this broken world. Business has value beyond the income it generates for you to donate to churches and charities, and beyond the platform it gives you to share your faith with other people. The actual work you do in business has great intrinsic value, because it helps shape the kind of world in which we live. Here's how you can do business for God: Provide goods and services to your community that will enable it to flourish. Provide opportunities for meaningful work that will allow employees to express their God-given creativity.
Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and empower you. Keep in mind that your work has eternal value. Be willing to make sacrifices. Six Ways to Get Involved in the 'Business as Missions' Movement. By Scott McFarlane Advancing Churches in Mission Commitment CBN.com – Have you ever felt that your calling is not as "spiritual" as someone else's? Has a friend or a leader in the church ever implied that if you were really "on fire for the Lord" you would drop your current profession and enter what is commonly referred to as "full-time ministry"? Have you wrestled with why God would give you skills and abilities in the field of business if that is not a valid use of your time?
In many church bodies, the Christian business community has been effectively marginalized by what Dr. R. Paul Stevens has poignantly described as a "Spiritual-Vocational Hierarchy. " Sadly, these are the prevailing assumptions about work in many churches, and they culminate in apathy, discouragement, resentment, and ultimately, a sweeping demobilization of talented people. In fact, this has now become a burgeoning movement of the Spirit. Option 1: A one to two week trip to train business people overseas. BAM Global | Global Network of BAM Partners. Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done… In Business: Report from the Business as Mission Global Think Tank - Malyon Workplace. It is easy to pray the Lord’s Prayer without really thinking about the words isn’t it. Neil Hudson (p. 9) challenges us to think a little more deeply (and indeed carefully) about what we are praying: These are big words.
These are huge words really. Hallowed. Kingdom. Your Kingdom come. Dr Rod St Hill, Dean of the School of Business at Christian Heritage College, Brisbane, is the co-author/editor of the just released report from the Business as Mission Global Think Tank entitled, “Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done… In Business: Biblical Foundations for Business as Mission” (see Table of Contents opposite). The report takes a very serious look at what it might mean for the kingdom to come in the world of business and provided a through discussion about how the world of business might contribute to God’s purposes in the world. Here’s the Executive Summary but anyone involved in the world of business and entrepreneurship would benefit greatly from reading the full report: Christian Entrepreneur - Bradford Moore, MBA - Business as Mission and Ministry. 6 Financial Questions That Trouble Business as Missions | Bamedu. As the concept of Business as Missions (BAM) has become more popular in mission circles, a number of critical financial questions continue to come to the surface.
As the two worlds of nonprofit and for-profit collide, the answers to these questions could radically affect the way you approach BAM. 1. Can you use donated money to start a for-profit business? 2. Can employees of mission agencies also run for-profit businesses? 3. Do I have to declare my Kingdom business income in my home country? Since there are no definitive answers for many of these questions, my goal is to help you focus your thinking in the right areas and to help you make appropriate decisions regarding each of the issues… Note: I am not a certified accountant or a lawyer I will try to present several sides of the discussion to allow you to hear what others are thinking. Some of these are serious issues, so please make sure that you do your due diligence and answer these questions for your self, business or organization. What leading worship taught me about BAM | Bamedu.
Stop & imagine this ridiculous worship scenario You have just come to the Lord! You are super excited to be involved in your new local church. On Sunday morning, you get up your courage to talk to the head pastor about your desire to help the growing church in any way. The next words you hear almost blow your mind! “We’d love you to lead worship this coming Sunday,” the pastor says with an excited smile. He grabs the guitar that is propped up next to his desk. A few thoughts quickly flash through your mind… “I know what a guitar is but I have never learned how to play it” “I’ve seen other people lead worship well, but I have never done it myself” “I’ve never had any lessons or training in worship or the guitar” “I have to do it all by myself?” That sounds absurd! Then why do we expect it to be any different in Business as Missions? If we are truly honest with ourselves, we have set up many young Christian workers to fail in Business as Mission.
What can we learn from our worship leaders? 1. "Business as Missions" - Missions Impossible? | Bamedu. When I first heard the term “BAM” (Business As Missions), I was captured by this relatively simple concept: Starting a kingdom business to access closed counties for the gospel of Jesus Christ. What a great idea! Let’s all do it. But 13 years later, I ask myself, “Have we tackled a giant that we are not equipped to fight?” I began to take a hard look at what we are asking our people to do… According to some statistics, 95% of all small businesses fail in the first 5 years; so starting a business is an extremely daunting task. Every time you enter into a new culture, it takes time and energy to understand how to relate and live within the new context.
Communication is vital for establishing strong business ventures; however, what if you don’t speak the language? When I took my daughter to the emergency room, I was sure glad to have doctors who were trained professionals to take care of her. But nothing is impossible with God. 3 Things They All Say About BAM | Bamedu. Answering the Hard Questions | Bamedu. Internships In Business As Missions | Bamedu. On Kingdom Business: Transforming Missions through Entrepreneurial Strategies | Bamedu.