Practical and Professional Skills

Entrepreneur Development Box Courses

Variety of Free Online Modules to develop your approach to business as mission.

Biblical Training Bill MacLeod, and Bill Job

In this three-session course, Bill MacLeod, founder of Mission ConneXion Northwest, interviews Bill Job, founder and president of Meixia International, a thriving business in China. With the core conviction that eternal things are more important than temporal things, Bill describes how through his business programs hundreds of Meixia’s employees have become believers in Jesus Christ, churches have been planted and compassionate ministries have started, including a program to hire disabled workers from the local community. Approximately 1.5 hours.

Praxis

Explore how faith calls us to take redemptive action in the world through entrepreneurship, creativity, and sacrifice.

International Missions Board

In this course, you will be challenged to rethink your work from God’s perspective. You’ll learn how, as someone who is being transformed by Christ, your work matters to God and has eternal significance. You will practice basic missional and cross-cultural skills to “show and tell” the good news by the way you work, what you say, and in how you love your co-workers and neighbours.

Third Path Initiative

Business as Mission (BAM) involves micro enterprise, microfinance, larger small-to-midsized businesses, and overseas private equity companies that have been opened to the Gospel. The purpose of Third Path is to accelerate your involvement and impact through this movement.

International Christian Chamber of Commerce

10 Mini Seminas from calling to the Kingdom of God

Broadcast Network

this training module explores these questions and learn from those who have deep experience of working with people living in poverty. We discover that often, when the proclamation of the gospel is integrated with appropriate, practical, contextualised and Holy Spirit-led action amongst those who are poor, vibrant communities of Jesus followers can emerge.

SIM

A series of short videos for a small group reflection on what it is to be a Christian teacher. Gather some teaching colleagues and reflect with an open Bible on your profession. Each video stands alone and none is longer than 10 minutes. They can be watched in any order. There is a downloadable booklet available to help you reflect on the videos.

Elim

The course comprehensively covers safeguarding topics, including abuse definitions, identification, risk reduction, reporting procedures, and best practices for creating a safe environment.

Oscar

This section has information and resources about different forms of communication as they relate to missionaries and overseas Christian workers.

BAM

A curated list of business as mission articles, papers and research studies.

Ask A Missionary

Discover answers to questions about using your professional skills overseas, including topics such as tentmaking, business-as-mission, art, medical mission, healthcare, education, social work, counseling, science, engineering, aviation, law enforcement, and computer science, and learn how to leverage your talents to expand the Kingdom of God.