Real lives, real businesses, real churches — from the least-reached corners of the world.
“I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.” — BILLY GRAHAM (LATE 2000) Jonathan Nowlen, the author of “Managing Your Metron” and the founder of “The Metron Manager Project” featured International Business Director of All Nations, Jonathan Nolan, in this September 2022…
Raymond Makhamu was stolen from his family when he was two years old. It was from 1979 until 2008 that he lived his life away from his family and grew up without his parents. He was born in Mozambique and was the firstborn in a family with eight children. His family tore apart during a…
“Before I became a pastor, I was a businessman but I left my business.”, said one of the pastors we trained in Mozambique. “After the Pioneer Business Planting training I realized I shouldn’t have walked away from doing business. Now I know I can combine business and church. I can share about Jesus when I…
From June 20 – June 25, 2022, our team will train 40 church planters in Maputo, Mozambique on how to start businesses and how to become self-sustainable while they are planting churches. Mozambique has 29 million people and is among one of the poorest countries in the world. Common reasons are the lack of education,…
Business Planting and Church Planting leads to the transformation of a young Kenyan leader and inspires others to change.
Many times, disciples from Mvunguti in Malawi asked Gibson to come and teach them how to plant businesses. Train them to become self-sustainable while making disciples and planting churches. The village is far away. Indeed, it can only be reached by a boat or by a long hike over a mountain. Some time ago, Gibson…
[1Co 4:14-17 NKJV] 14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn [you]. 15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [you do] not [have] many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you,…
“You should check this out…”, said one of our team members two weeks ago during our business training in the Middle East. She showed me a collage of the 16-year-old girl Farousha (name changed) on leadership we taught the previous day. She had captured the difference between a servant leader and an authoritarian leader…
End of 2021 a group visited an unreached tribe, called the East Pokots from Kenya. For the last 6 years, one of our workers has been working faithfully in that area which resulted in new churches planted. The East Pokots are an animistic people group that move with their livestock from place to place. We…
For many of our teams, 2020 was a difficult year. Nevertheless, I continue to be impressed by the faith and perseverance of our people.
Growing up in an impoverished family in Kenya, Kefa was pulled into doing business at a young age. Before the age of 10 he started earning money, so he could provide himself with books, clothes and sometimes food. His first deal was with a man who wanted to start planting tea. As Kefa’s parents worked in a tea plantation, he could get seeds through them. He sold them to this man for 5 shillings; his first starting capital.
This past June we faced another challenging, but also amazing, opportunity to facilitate a PBP consultation of 3 days, three hours per day.
When George from Kenya was a young boy, he had never heard about Jesus. Until one day a missionary family moved into his village and started truly mixing with the villagers. The wife loved the kids and naturally invited everyone into their home. It was there, that George’s life changed forever. He became a passionate…
6 years ago Peter from Kenya had an accident at his workplace, where he got stuck in a wire cable and was dragged over the ground for hundreds of meters and smashed into a wall.
“Now you are a new person, now you are a born-again believer!” said the wife of Moses to him after he included his wife into their farming business.
At the end of last year Gibson, from Malawi, held a Pioneer Business Planting consultation with several local Malawian leaders. One of these leaders, Gastern, called Gibson last week and started sharing his amazing story.
Last year we started a FaithFund in Malawi where people that have gone through a Pioneer Business Planting consultation, have a written business plan that proves to be viable and are trustworthy followers of Jesus, can apply for a loan to start their business. Our key leaders started 5 businesses: taxi business, hardware store, restaurant,…
“Now I understand how I can use business to plant churches. It opens doors to the community.” From September 14 till September 18 Gibson from Malawi and Jonathan from The Netherlands facilitated an Online Pioneer Business Planting consultation. During 5 days, 4 hours per day over Zoom we were projected in a Kenyan room with…
