“Couldn’t All Nations—the people from the West—help us?” It was day four of the Pioneer Business Planting training in Southfield, southern Pakistan. The room was full of small-scale farmers and aspiring entrepreneurs — people who had grown up with little, and who had learned to look outward for help. But
In a simple training room in Arusha, Tanzania, 40 church planters, entrepreneurs and local community leaders from Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya gathered. Many of whom were once stuck in generational poverty and hopelessness. But what united them was a shared journey: each had taken the Pioneer Business Planting (PBP) training
Guiding the Movement Immediately after the Facilitators Training in Arusha, Tanzania, our national leaders from Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, India, and Tanzania stayed for a 3-day strategic leadership gathering. What took place was a time of vision, honesty, deep prayer, and big dreams. We shared our stories. One of us
“Miro had a plan. He’d been diligently saving money, quietly nurturing an idea. His goal? To create a second line of business. I was initially concerned when I saw him dabbling in motorcycle taxi services. Had he abandoned tailoring? But I was wrong. Miro had merely been testing the waters,
20 “So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’ 21 “His lord said to him, ‘Well [done], good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things,
One 19-year old participant of our Pioneer Business Planting and Train the Trainer training, Rose (name changed), started crying in class. She shared that she was forced to be married to an older man. Her father is a Massai and has 8 wives and 25 children. He couldn’t provide for her
