North Park (Chicago) Launches Business as Mission Course
North Park University's School of Business & Nonprofit Management (SBNM) is a leader in preparing students for lives of significance and service in the nonprofit sector and business environment.In the Spring of 2008 The School of Business and Nonprofit Management and the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies will offer a seven-week topics course in Business as Mission. Here's an excerpt from their website: "The course will be taught by Professor Boaz Johnson of BTS and Professor Michael Avramovich of the SBNM. BAM is an emerging movement in which Christians are pursuing business with excellence for the well-being of God’s creation. As the modern era of globalization increases global connectedness through telecommunications and the Internet, a new era of Christian mission is unfolding, one in which business professionals have unique opportunities to nurture the economic, social and spiritual vitality of communities around the world.
Among the topics of this course are the following: A Biblical Perspective on Business, Biblical Principles of “Business as Mission”, Discernment of Calling, Spiritual Disciplines for Business People, Leadership from a Business as Mission Perspective, BAM and Justice: Case Studies in Business Ethics, Starting Your Own BAM Business, Tent-making and Micro-Enterprise Development and Sustainability. For more information click here.
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