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3+ Don’t-Miss-This Sites for BAM and B4T

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Editor’s Note: Allow us to save you the Googling: B4T is “Business for Transformation.”

Business as Mission.com explains B4T as

a partnership of entrepreneurs and investors that maximizes social, economic, environmental and spiritual transformation in communities.

B4T stretches beyond cash to truly improve onsite business training. It monitors “a business’s ability to make a measurable impact” in influence and interaction.

Go. Serve. Love believes Business as Mission (and all its avatars) could be key to reaching the 4.13 billion unreached. So we’re thrilled to welcome back missions vet David Armstrong, our Executive Director, with his advice on some stellar BAM resources.

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I love the growing number of websites helping those wanting to take their job overseas. You might call it Business as Mission or Business for Transformation. Either way, you need experienced, proven counsel and help.

This past month, I reviewed top websites serving the growing BAM and B4T community.

Scatter Global

The hook: Scatter Global can help you prepare and find a job overseas.

It’s all about the WHY. Their Foundations online course lays out the foundational principles of living out your faith in a global marketplace and community.

Scatter Global guides you every step of the way. They’ll point you to key resources, important disciplines, and a scheduled plan. All of these will keep you moving toward your goal of taking your profession to another part of the world.

What else does Scatter have up their sleeve for B4t?

Job resources: A job board / Custom job search strategies / Preparation for landing a job overseas
Blog section: 100+ resourceful posts
Online Courses to get you ready
Community: join others walking this path

Marketplace and Development Enterprises

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The hook: MDE helps you WALK through various ways you can serve overseas through business. They will actively resource you, through legal help and beyond, to get you there.

MDE can assist you in whatever form BAM or B4T take for you:

DISCIPLE-MAKING EMPLOYMENT

Work as an employee of an international company. Or take a job in a local business in an unreached community.

BUSINESS AS MISSION (BAM)

Form and run a self-sustaining, profitable business in an unreached community.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Create or participate in initiatives that invest in impoverished communities. Foster economic, environmental or social growth.

MDE also offers an extensive list of resources and list of existing opportunities.

Business as Mission

The Hook: BusinessAsMission.com covers all things BAM.

You can find

An understanding of what BAM is, from the basic to the complex
Recommendations for 6 foundational books and 4 articles. These will shape your practical understanding of BAM.
biblical foundation and 4 essential pillars on which to build your strategy
practical steps to get you moving
Over 300 blog posts about real-life and in-depth aspects of BAM!
curated library of BAM video, audio, books, articles and more
collections of practical toolkits for practitioners grouped around BAM topics
Reports, bibliographies, stories, and more

Bonus: More Great BAM/B4T Sites

Transformational SME

Real businesses, real products and services–adding real value to lives!

BAM Global

A comprehensive resource directory for Business as Mission in partnership with the BAM Resources Team

BAM Training

Info about BAM courses and conferences

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After seven years on staff with Cru, Janel and her husband packed up their family of six to--yup, Go. Serve. Love in Uganda with Engineering Ministries International (EMI). EMI focuses on poverty relief and development, providing structural design and construction management for Christian organizations in the developing world. After 5.5 years there in East Africa, Janel and her family recently schlepped back to the U.S., where they keep working on behalf of the poor. She writes and loves on her family from Colorado. You can find more of her ideas for practical spirituality and loving each other at AGenerousGrace.com.