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RESOURCE CATEGORY: BAM Stories
BAM: Leveraging the CrossFit Craze for Missions
Back in 2017, The Stone Table partnered with four Indiana churches to underwrite the start-up costs of a small portfolio of BAM (Business as Mission) projects around the world. One of the most impactful (and let’s face it, most fun) is a CrossFit Gym in Alexandria,...
BAM: The Power of We, Bottom Lines, and Expectations
How can Business as Mission, bring true Kingdom impact to the people around us? Well, a couple years ago, I spent 8 days in China with a group of pastors and businessmen. We spent a week exploring some powerful new BAM platforms taking root in the area. We plan to...
BAM Continued: Lessons on Seasons and Superiority
(The two stories given today are of Business as Mission practitioners on the field using business as a mechanism for planting the church in areas of the world where you can’t do that with traditional missionary methods. To protect the BAM consulting work being done,...
BAM from the Field: Dynamic Development
What I think I like best about engaging in the gospel mission through BAM is an idea I call dynamic development. Dynamic development is a mindset that allows all the different members of a business relationship, employer or employee, customer or stakeholder, to be...
BAM Careers: Stories While Teaching English
Whether BAM careers or BAM consulting interests you, know that your current day job is a beautiful platform for the Gospel before you get there. I’m referring to the work itself, the actual act of working, serving, adding value to the lives of other people in big...
Assembly of God Missionaries Serving on Mission Trips: Unexpected Blessings When the Evening Comes
I have two missions stories for you back from 2018 that may be good reminders during the times we find ourselves in. One is where my family had the privilege of serving on a mission trip with other Assembly of God Missionaries in Ethiopia, and the other is from Karen...
Mission to Unreached Peoples: Three Stories of Prayer from the Mission Field
We love hearing (and sharing) stories about the mission to the unreached peoples around the world. It helps us to see that this is more than just an idea, but that real people are being touched each and every day by not only Assembly of God Missionaries, but...
From the Field: BAM Dynamic Development
What I think I like best about engaging in missional business is an idea I call dynamic development. Dynamic development is a mindset that allows all the differing members of a business relationship; employer or employee, customer or stakeholder, to be challenged and...
From the Field: A Business as Mission Update from the Muslim World
Business as Mission is the perfect mechanism for both embodying and proclaiming the Gospel all over the world, but we are seeing unique impact with this strategy among unreached people groups. At its core, business is about adding value to people’s lives, meeting a...
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Crisis and Compassion: Finding Empathy in the Heat of Adversity
You know, running a business or interacting in the marketplace in a way that honors the Lord is sometimes harder than we want it to be. And through the process, we often learn a lot about ourselves. Marketplace skills, as I’ve come to realize, are missionary skills. A...
When Promotion Feels Like Punishment | Sanford Swanson
My name is Sanford Swanson. I know it's hard to believe with this baby face, but for 18 and a half years, I've been a police officer. For the last 8 and a half years, I’ve been in West Lafayette, Indiana, where I get the privilege of raising my family alongside my...
Unpacking Gospel Outreach to Unreached People Groups | Interview with Missionary Bob Holloway
We just got back from a whirlwind three days in Peru, up in the Andes Mountains, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet above sea level. I've almost recovered the oxygen I lost during that trip. While we were there, we got to talk to my new friend, missionary Bob Holloway,...