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NederlandsBusiness as Mission Global Movement
Entrepreneurs see, and create opportunities. How can this talent be used to benefit society and build Gods Kingdom in innovative and holistic ways?
BAM is a growing movement. In BAM Global Movement; Concept & Stories you will read 30 stories of business, church and mission leaders from around the globe who are on a ‘BAM journey’. Either in developing nations, closed countries, as well as in Western secularised contexts. The stories alternate with theory. Co-author Mats Tunehag (internationally involved in BAM) explains the BAM concept, while I describe paradigm shifts regarding mission, church and aid.
In 2016 the Dutch Business as Mission book BAM! was released in the Netherlands. BAM Global Movement is published in 2018 by Hendrickson Publishers in the US, and is a part of their Theology of Work series.
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BAM Global Movement; Concept and Stories
You will learn through concept parts, and through thirty stories from around the globe – about the potential of business to share God’s Kingdom in tangible ways.
If in the Netherlands, you can order here. Outside the NL, you can order through Amazon, e.o. Also available in different Ebook formats.
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