For over 30 years, engineers, architects, surveyors, and others have gone into the developing world to assist in the global objective of seeing the Great Commission/Great Commandment go forward hand-in-hand through missionary endeavors. The lessons we’ve learned are profound—including the fact that the future requires the worldwide Church to partner together better.
Business and Technology
International lifestyle and business practices can create physical, social, spiritual, and business challenges. How does a Christian leader remain salt and light in a country that’s not their own? Come and hear how God uses our servant hearts to manifest his purposes, shape business practices, influence global leaders, and change lives.
The future of missions is on the wings of business. Increasingly, people are joining church planting teams around the world using their careers. Engineers, accountants, doctors, teachers are obeying God’s call to go. Come hear lessons learned from interacting with dozens of kingdom companies while investing in Southeast Asia.
A new breed of digital missionaries is desperately needed—those with creativity and inventiveness, who dare to maximize their digital talents and expertise to make a huge impact for Jesus. Hear how God can use your unique gifts, skills, and experiences to build tools, platforms, and strategies to help accelerate the mission.
We live in an unprecedented time when technology enables us to connect instantaneously with someone on the opposite side of the world. This presents us an opportunity to rethink missions, to use technology to change the world, and to collaborate with others who share this mission.
Should we Instagram worship? What do disciples snap? Can Twitter nurture faith? Can someone convert on Facebook? Why does my data matter? How many connections are too many? Should I build a platform? Few people are asking the hard, practical questions about social media and God’s mission. But we must.
How might a for-profit business bear witness to God’s reign? From job training for at-risk youth to salary structures to church and community partnership, we’ll share practical experience and offer ways to think about business as a gospel announcement drawn from the eighteen-year journey of one unconventional tech company.
Learn the key steps to starting a for-profit social business that can expand God’s kingdom in places of poverty. Hear about business-as-mission companies creating social and spiritual impact by operating in the global economy, finding financial sustainability through the marketplace instead of through donations.
Having started/run three startups ($120M+ in financing), I’ve done some impossibly stupid things and squandered all sorts of opportunities to share God’s love. But God has taught me much. I’ll share (1) my failure lessons that will help you avoid my mistakes, and (2) my missed opportunities to share Christ so that you’ll share him more effectively.
Learn about the crucial issues in effectively mobilizing and deploying seven forms of strategic, patient capital into kingdom business ventures. We’ll focus particularly on areas of the world where access to capital is severely constrained because of economic, environmental, social, and spiritual factors.