Posted in Business as Mission on Dec 20th, 2011
Business as Mission is a relatively new term. But the concept is not, nor is the practice. But we can witness a renewed understanding of Biblical concepts of work and business. I have worked across the globe with these issues for about 17 years. The momentum is growing, especially in the non-Western world. Please read […]
Posted in Business as Mission on Dec 16th, 2011
A decade ago The Economist labeled Africa “the hopeless continent”. Now in a recent issue the same magazine describe the continent’s impressive change and growth. A few quotes: “Africa’s economies are consistently growing faster than those of almost any other region of the world. … Ethiopia will grow by 7.5% this year, without a drop […]
Posted in Business as Mission on Nov 27th, 2011
Last blog entry was about my visit to Rwanda. I have had many encouraging and interesting responses from all over the world, and God has used it in wonderful ways. Earlier this week I came back from almost three weeks in the USA, and I leave again for the USA tomorrow morning. One of the […]
Posted in Business as Mission, International Affairs on Nov 1st, 2011
Unfortunately Africa is often associated with words with negative connotations: corruption, aids, donor fatigue, genocide, bad governance, colonialism, malaria, slavery, famine, poverty, civil wars, blood diamonds, et cetera. A trillion dollar of aid has not raised the continent out of poverty. A corrupt leader like Mugabe has changed a country from a breadbasket of a […]
Posted in Business as Mission on Oct 19th, 2011
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”, wrote Rudyard Kipling in the poem “The Ballad of East and West”. Non-profit is non-profit, and for profit is for profit, and never the twain shall meet – or should they? Maybe they already do! There is an on-going discussion in the […]