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The personal weblog of Bradley C. Matson.Thursday, October 25, 2007 Isaiah58
Here is a good verse on Christian service that provides a framework for vision.
Isaiah58 (PDF)
Isaiah58 (PDF)
posted by Bradley Matson # 4:26 PM
Friday, October 19, 2007 good fight
Friday, October 12, 2007 BAM Course Acceptance
"Dear Bradley,
Business as Mission’s has been recognized as a key strategy for impacting the nations for Christ
during the 21st century. Various organizations, NGO’s, and non-profits, as well as those engaged in the for-profit business sphere, are seeing that working together through economic development, individuals, communities and nations can be transformed.
The Introduction to Business as Missions Course is fulfilling a mandate given by the Global
Leadership of YWAM to equip practitioners and resource multipliers of the BAM Strategy. The
movement of BAM is emerging and being embraced as a necessary strategy for missions in the
coming century. However, being that it is a new strategy, a void exists in the training and
networking of this calling. It is at this place that the Introduction to BAM course is serving the
greater movement by offering a platform from which to release and invest into prime participants.
After thorough screening and prayer we consider you to be an ideal applicant.
You are officially offered a place in the training. As a participant, you will be invested into by
cross-cultural trainers, BAM practitioners, experienced consultants and be toured through many BAM projects and exercises.
Please fill in and return the final page of this document to confirm enrollment.
Your place in the Introduction to Business as Missions Course will be held for 30 days to confirm your attendance. Please follow the Next Steps section for details on confirming registration and payment schedules.
A full detailed travel package will be sent out upon confirmation of enrollment.
We look forward to serving and investing into your life. May God lead and direct your path.
Mark Plummer
Director of Training"
Michigan Jump$tart: Mission
Business as Mission’s has been recognized as a key strategy for impacting the nations for Christ
during the 21st century. Various organizations, NGO’s, and non-profits, as well as those engaged in the for-profit business sphere, are seeing that working together through economic development, individuals, communities and nations can be transformed.
The Introduction to Business as Missions Course is fulfilling a mandate given by the Global
Leadership of YWAM to equip practitioners and resource multipliers of the BAM Strategy. The
movement of BAM is emerging and being embraced as a necessary strategy for missions in the
coming century. However, being that it is a new strategy, a void exists in the training and
networking of this calling. It is at this place that the Introduction to BAM course is serving the
greater movement by offering a platform from which to release and invest into prime participants.
After thorough screening and prayer we consider you to be an ideal applicant.
You are officially offered a place in the training. As a participant, you will be invested into by
cross-cultural trainers, BAM practitioners, experienced consultants and be toured through many BAM projects and exercises.
Please fill in and return the final page of this document to confirm enrollment.
Your place in the Introduction to Business as Missions Course will be held for 30 days to confirm your attendance. Please follow the Next Steps section for details on confirming registration and payment schedules.
A full detailed travel package will be sent out upon confirmation of enrollment.
We look forward to serving and investing into your life. May God lead and direct your path.
Mark Plummer
Director of Training"
posted by Bradley Matson # 10:51 AM
Mission 
Michigan Jump$tart: Mission
The Michigan Jump$tart Coalition seeks to improve the personal financial literacy of Michigan young people, in partnership with the national Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.
Vision
Vision
The Michigan Jump$tart Coalition envisions a time when all Michigan young people will have access to personal finance education in order to develop the necessary skills to be financially competent upon graduation from high school.
Objectives
Objectives
Public and Educator Awareness. Increase public and educator awareness of the need to improve the personal financial literacy of Michigan youth.
Business Community. Facilitate business community involvement in the activities and programs of the Michigan Coalition.
Personal Finance Standards. Promote the teaching of personal finance by demonstrating how personal finance topics relate to existing Michigan educational standards and benchmarks.
Teacher Education. Promote teacher education workshops and conferences that increase educator awareness of personal finance content, materials and activities to assist in the teaching/learning process.
Technology. Promote the use of computers by teachers and students in order to gain personal finance knowledge and skills.
Business Community. Facilitate business community involvement in the activities and programs of the Michigan Coalition.
Personal Finance Standards. Promote the teaching of personal finance by demonstrating how personal finance topics relate to existing Michigan educational standards and benchmarks.
Teacher Education. Promote teacher education workshops and conferences that increase educator awareness of personal finance content, materials and activities to assist in the teaching/learning process.
Technology. Promote the use of computers by teachers and students in order to gain personal finance knowledge and skills.
Michigan Jump$tart: Mission
posted by Bradley Matson # 10:13 AM
Thursday, October 11, 2007 Official Acceptance
I recently received a letter from BAM that indicated my official acceptance to the Business as Mission training course in Thailand this Feb. Bringing me another step closer to the Asia trip this Spring.
posted by Bradley Matson # 3:11 PM
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Passive Income: How to Earn More and Work Less
The residual income approach is a strategy that recognizes that time is a limited and valuable resource and instead of trading time for money seeks to create residual modes of income. A residual mode of income is something that makes you money without you. Once setup a residual mode of income takes little if any time to maintain.
Here's a good article on it: Passive Income: How to Earn More and Work Less
Here's a good article on it: Passive Income: How to Earn More and Work Less
posted by Bradley Matson # 10:24 AM
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 What is a Christian Business?
"...there is no such entity as a "Christian business." A business is a corporation, partnership, or proprietorship. Yet a business may reflect the values of the principal owners and managers. It is these values that determine whether or not a business is labeled Christian or non-Christian."
by Jim Shoemaker for Christian Financial Planning
Full Article: What is a Christian Business?
by Jim Shoemaker for Christian Financial Planning
Full Article: What is a Christian Business?
posted by Bradley Matson # 11:25 AM
Friday, October 05, 2007 Capital to Compassion
Nearly any business model can be retrofitted to include a social entrepreneurial component. This can be done through donation-per-sale programs or having a sister company in the third world that you walk along side and support through finance and guidance.
--Innovate for change--
posted by Bradley Matson # 12:32 PM
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