From Missions to Business as Mission - Impact Story from Thailand
After already being involved in missions through an organization called Youth With a Mission my wife and I had business on our minds because we saw the potential transformation it could bring in developing countries. I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and my wife has a background in real estate. During our time in missions, we stumbled upon this movement of Business as Mission and heard about the Introduction to Business as Mission course. For the many years we have been working for YWAM we have been engaging in ministry under the leadership of our base leader. This past Fall, we were approached by our base to explore economic sustainability projects as a viable opportunity to see real transformation in a society. We have been in various missional outreaches to many nations, but are still witnessing challenges when it comes to actual sustained discipleship within the nations of the world. As we stumbled across this course a few months ago we saw the Lord was leading, and so it has proved.We know that the Lord has given us principles to live within this world, and business is one arena that all people touch. Unfortunately many live without guidance of God in financial and trade areas and out of this we see much poverty and despair. We are to seek His kingdom first and participate in that here on earth, so what does that mean? How do we live out these Kingdom principles in such a way as to touch lives? How can we engage this world with the Kingdom of Heaven? How can we really disciple the nations? These questions, and more, are at the core of this training in the introductory course.
Jesus told us to clothe the naked and to feed the poor. How do most people take care of these things in their own lives? They have jobs. We need to step out in faith and create opportunities for others to have sustainability in their lives, where the naked are clothed and the poor are fed and glory is given to God.
Wil & Abbey Brillinger
http://www.brillinger.org/
Labels: Recruitment and Job Opportunities, Training the Next Generation, YWAM
