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[This comes as a tip from our #CCDA friend, Rudy Carrasco... "An article on the Business as Mission movement in Friday's Wall Street Journal contains background on Partners Worldwide, the nonprofit I currently work for as an associate director, as well as quotes by Doug Seebeck, our Executive Director."]By Rob Moll
Christian missionaries have always brought institutions from home and planted them in foreign lands. Schools, hospitals and social services are staples of missionary activity. But recently those who spread the faith overseas have realized that it's not enough to educate and provide health care. In the midst of a world-wide recession, people need jobs, and a growing number of missionaries—many of them working outside traditional missionary organizations—are taking their business skills and starting for-profit companies in the mission fields...
[continued at Wall Street Journal]
[More from Rudy...] "At Partners we recently published a book on our unique approach to Business as Mission, an approach that emphasizes skills-based volunteering by Christian business people. The book is called My Business, My Mission. The book uses a case study-type approach to tell "boots on the ground" stories of entrepreneurs around the world who are creating jobs to alleviate poverty. Visit the web site and order the book. And let me know if you'd like to talk more about this topic, take a vision trip, or invite a Partners Worldwide staffer to speak to your church or at your event.
-Thanks, Rudy"
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