Using business to Advance the spread of the gospel among the unreached

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be the solution to these problems

Most of the movements we know are not self-sustainable. We want to be the solution.

Problems

Many areas are closed to the gospel
Many disciple makers do not have the money to provide for their families, give to others and travel to unreached places
There is a lack of knowledge and experience on how to handle money well (make, spend, save, give, invest)
There is no capital available to start businesses, because banks don't give loans to these startups and Microfinance loans are too small
In Africa, Asia and the Middle-East there is a great dependency on Western money

solutions

Find out what products or services the community needs that they do not have access too and start a non-competitive business in that area
Training disciple makers how to start a Kingdom business that helps them make disciples among the neglected and provide an income for themselves
Intense coaching on starting and growing the business while making disciples, growing character and managing money well
Encourage people to find local funding first and starting up a local FaithFund
Providing low interest loans from a locally set up FaithFund after the people have been trained and written a viable business plan

Meet oliver and rhoda

For years Oliver and Rhoda have been planting churches among the neglected. Many times they couldn’t pay school fees for their six kids and some days they couldn’t put food on the table.

They are passionate to plant more churches in new villages. Unfortunately they don’t have the money to travel to these new villages and less people will have the change of hearing about Jesus.

With your help, they started to farm rice and a taxi business. Through training them in Pioneer Business Planting, ongoing coaching and access to a FaithFund they can bring food on the table, give to others and travel to the unreached places to make disciples and plant churches.

Impact in numbers 2018-2021

People trained in Pioneer Business Planting

Businessplans written

Businesses funded

Loans given

People influenced

Nations

Number of Discovery Bible Studies

Number of churches

Generations of churches

Disclaimer: numbers are a great way to show how God is impacting the world. Remember, they are just numbers. Behind every number are people, stories and communities. High numbers is never the end goal. The end goal is more disciples and churches planted among the neglected peoples of the earth.

We receive our data from our local workers on the field. Numbers change all the time. Businesses stop and start, churches stop and start.

How we work

We are making church planting movements self-sustainable through the following steps.

1 determine location

We mainly work with church planters that want to extend the reach of the gospel. We determine if the location has the vision, time and resources to focus on churchplanting and starting businesses.

2 field consultation

In the 5 day interactive Pioneer Business Planting consultation participants will learn how to use business to reach the lost, to write a business plan and skills to start and manage their business.

3 BUSINESS PLAN

The participants start researching their communities. From there they gather all the necessary information and write their business plans.

4 BUSINESS COACHING

Through regular meetings an experienced business coach will help the participants develop their business plan and develop further skills needed to start and grow the business.

5 funding

Once the business has proven to be viable, the next phase is raising the capital to start. We encourage people to find funds locally through a bank, micro-finance institutions, personal savings, loans from friends and family etc. We also set up local FaithFunds to start the businesses.

6 multiply businesses

The participants start the business, ongoing business coaching will be provided and when it grows new businesses will be started.

We are taking Pioneer business Planting online

Online course with 40 animated videos of 2~3 minutes
Includes exercises/games to do as individual and/or group
Self-Paced
Includes Certificate
Connect with a Coach
Android App including DBS, audio bible, and security training

Donate your time and marketing skills!

Do you love telling stories? Do you love media, marketing, design? Are you passionate about business? About disciplemaking and do you have a love for other cultures? Donate your time and talents and volunteer to interview our workers, write or produce video’s of their stories, send newsletters and be active on social media.

Video Business for MOVEMENTS

ANNUAL REPORT 2021

Read encouraging stories about how church planters have been helped to become self-sustainable and use business to extend the reach of the gospel.

READ THIS ENCOURAGING STORY

Malawian local leader, Gastern never did proper budgeting in his life and business. He never saved and knew little about bookkeeping. After the training, he started to work on a business plan and opened his first business: a restaurant and small lodge. When fishermen travel through his village, they need a proper place to eat and sleep. Gastern gives them food and a place to sleep in his simple lodge. While these men are eating, he plays the audio bible in their language and shares Jesus with them.

TESTIMONIALS

I have opened my mind to selling and starting a business. I pray first and I don’t separate business and church. I also plan and research products or services that people don’t have in the community. What would they like to have? In business, we must love our customers, and gradually, we can start sharing the words of God with them. We must have a brand to see and if we get some profit and then order the product again. More importantly, separate the money of the business and our salary. We can also invest the profit to grow more and remember not to use the business money for personal expenses.

We must know the difference between a Christian and a worldly leader. Do not mix money from business and church. The money belongs to the business, tithe belongs to the church. We need to divide it smartly to pay back loans. If we manage the business well, we can create more jobs and opportunities for other people to grow. All these, you can learn from the Bible.

I learned not to sell alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes because these destroy people. I treat my customers well and make sure that I am active in sales in my shop because customers might leave. I go to church to pray and glorify God.

I learned that we have to work with love. If we don’t have love, then our work is nothing. I also learned that we have to pray first for everything that we do, just like when we go to the farm, we prepare the soil first. How we start dictates how we finish our day-to-day lives. In doing business, we cannot just use the money for ourselves like spending on our family.

A believer can do business and evangelize in the business at the same time. A leader in the church shouldn’t only depend on the tithes, instead it is better to do something to start a sustainable business and spread the word of God. In doing a business there is a difference between a boss and a leader. A boss manages and dictates. Good leaders not only motivate and inspire the team to perform their best, but they are also part of the team themselves.

I learned about 5 steps that we have to solve problems in business: I pray first for everything I do. Secondly, I use my experience and thirdly I ask for wise council. I also examine and do research and as the final step I make a decision. Lastly, I also learned I need to have a plan for planting churches and businesses.

We need your help

End the low self-esteem, the shame and the stress of disciple makers and help them reach the unreached through business and churchplanting.

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