When doing business, many entrepreneurs will blend their faith with their business. Others will blend social actions with their commercial business. When a company blends the commercial actions of their business with their social actions, they act philanthropically. When a company blends their Christian faith with their commercial actions and acts in a manner that […]
Category: Small Business
Wear’s Valley Ranch
Wear’s Valley Ranch, located in the mountains outside Pigeon Forge in Eastern Tennessee, is a home for children that cares about redemptive entrepreneurship. The ranch allows at-risk children to flourish in a safe, Christian environment. The ranch provides stable homes and personalized education programs for the kids. According to Pastor Jim Woods, the founder of […]
My Half of The Sky
When talking about redemptive entrepreneurship and the correlation between commercial business and social business to create a business that is for the social good, I think of one of my favorite coffee shops in Wheaton, IL. My Half of The Sky is the perfect marriage of a coffee shop and boutique in the heart of […]
Church of God in Christ
In West Los Angeles Church of God in Christ runs a community-development corporation that aims at “economic empowerment” of the poor and needy in its community backyard. Church of God in Christ community-development includes job training and entrepreneurial development, and it also partners with major corporations and businesses to provide employment for neighborhood residents. Another […]
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church
Memphis is facing a major job crisis and local law makers and residents have been trying to fix the deficient. The U.S. Census’ American FactFinder reported only about 40,000 people hold two-year associate degrees, a certificate considered a key step into middle-class jobs. Meanwhile, 68,000 never completed high school, an additional 141,000 attended but have […]
“When a Church Matches Missions with Entrepreneurship”
When Pastor Daniel Harrell unexpectedly received around $2 million from a land sale in his business, the first thing he thought of was to use 20% of these funds and put it to his passion of being a missionary. At first, he didn’t know what to do with all this money, and how to put […]
Entrepreneurship is the Mission of this Church
Church brings people of all kinds together. Scripture makes it clear that a church can consist of any mix of people, but that it is Christ that brings us together. When the institution of the church started meeting together in places like Thessalonica and Colossae, there was only one church in town. A Christian had […]
Balance of Work, Relationships, and Rest
In the opening chapter of Genesis, we are provided with a purpose of how to spend our time, and an example of how to balance our time. Genesis 1:26-28 states the purpose of the creation of man in the cultural mandate. The cultural mandate as stated in Genesis 1:28 (NIV) is for man (who is […]
Living out Redemptive Entrepreneurship in Small Business
How can businesses demonstrate redemptive entrepreneurship? Is it as simple as closing the business on Sundays and printing Scripture verses on the wall? Or is there more to it–something that starts in the heart and flows out through the hands? Matthew 5: 15-16 says, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a […]