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Resource
Organizations
(last updated 08/28/03)
This link is to the Business As Mission
Resource Center. The site is being hosted and developed by
the Business as Missions Team, YWAM England under the leadership
of Lynn Green. This team is serving as a facilitator and aims
to draw in and consult with a wide network of individuals and
organizations. You will be required to login and provide your
e-mail address and a password but it's well worth the effort.
http://www.businessasmission.com/
Strategic Christian Services
seeks to educate, train, and work with people who want to see
transformation take place.
http://www.gostrategic.org/
Micro
Enterprises & Business Development
World Partners
has been an organization helping to start business and mission
since 1986. World Partners supports local initiatives in developing
countries through entrepreneurial ventures with a Christian element
for the betterment of the entire community.
http://www.worldpartners.org/
Step Ahead MED:
Amalgamating micro enterprise development, mentoring, with personal
and business development training, in an integrated service among
the poor of Thailand that displays the concrete love of God.
http://www.stepaheadmed.org/
Student Internship
Student Mobilization Center
has summer internship programs available. http://www.gospelcom.net/uofn/haystack/
http://www.ywamconnect.com/sites/smc
Training
& Teaching
EC Institute has conferences, programs and resources to enrourage the showing of God's love in practical ways in the business world.
http://www.ec-i.org
IMPACT Center
has a vision for mobilizing business people - by networking with
the global body of Christ, it is a vehicle to help people as they
do missions by going and bringing societal change in the nations.
http://www.impact-center.org/business.htm
Christian Transformation Resource Center
- Resource site co-sponsored by many organizations involved in
Christian Micro-enterprise Development.
http://www.ctrc-cmed.org/
Professional
Associations
Is it possible to be both a tough-minded,
skeptical journalist and a committed follower of Jesus Christ?
This is the web site for Gegrapha, the Global Fellowship
of Journalists. Gegrapha seeks to build up existing groups of
Christians within journalism all over the world, to foster networks
among them at the national and international level.
http://www.gegrapha.org/
Others
The Scruples
web site is a great starting point for learning more. Read the
article "Back to the Future of Missions" and go from
there.
http://www.scruples.org/
The official church wastes time and
energy, and moreover, commits sacrilege, in demanding that secular
workers should neglect their proper vocation in order to do Christian
work -... Dorothy Sayers . If you like the quote then go for more
on the web site of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Click
on the "Post College" link under "Resources"
to get to this great resource!
http://www.ivmdl.org/
Centre for Entrepreneurship and
Economic Development (CEED). A ministry
within Youth With A Mission.
http://www.ceed-uofn.org/
Opportunity International
seeks transformation in the lives of poor men and women in developing
countries. It provides entrepreneurs with access to capital and
business training to start and expand small businesses. Opportunity
enables people to care for their families and gain the dignity
that comes from being self-supporting. Communities are strengthened
as local economies improve and entrepreneurs join forces to solve
societal problems.
http://www.opportunity.org/
The Trickle Up Program is not
a faith-based organization but nevertheless a group we can learn
from.
http://www.trickleup.org/
International Christian Chamber
of Commerce (US site).
http://www.icccusa.net/
This paper provides concise information
and concepts useful for designing, implementing and evaluating
Christian micro enterprise development (MED) and microfinance
programs.
http://www.aerdo.org/resources/organizations/
christian_microcredit.html
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