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The school’s purpose

The Business As Mission School aims to demonstrate what the Kingdom of God looks like in the context of business – and in doing so, engage with the world’s most pressing social, economic, environmental and spiritual issues for the Glory of God.

BREAK YOUR PARADIGMS AND STEER YOUR BUSINESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

The Business as Mission School, as well as the Business as Mission Seminar that takes place during the school, aims to awaken those who have a calling and vocation as businessmen and women to be part of a new movement in our nation, generating and giving birth to God’s dreams through businesses that move the Kingdom of God, its principles and values. Our aim is to mobilize and empower entrepreneurs by exposing the four pillars of a company that has Business as Mission:

  • ECONOMICS

Generate profitable, self-sustaining businesses that provide a financial return for their investors and actively contribute to boosting the local economy and generating wealth.

  • SOCIAL

Implies promoting a business environment that allows the social development of employees, developing directly for society an individual with a better quality of life.

  • ENVIRONMENTAL

Using natural resources responsibly, promoting good practices in the use of environmental resources.

  • SPIRITUAL

Making God’s perspective known in every aspect of the individual’s life: their value in the Kingdom, in the family and at work.

 

Biography

Mark Fisher has been working with YWAM for over 37 years. Twelve of those years were with YWAM Amsterdam. In the first eight years with GO Teams and then, in his last four years, he led the leadership team for a project that was planting churches throughout Siberia. He moved to Colorado Springs in May 1997 to work with the YWAM Colorado Springs base. At YWAM COS, he served as Homefront Director for field work among the people of Azerbaijan from 1997 to 2009. During this time, he was part of the main leadership team that pioneered the development of the International Business Learning Center, which expanded to a second location in Arizona, as well as other locations in Yemen, Jordan, the West Bank, India, and Turkmenistan. Simultaneously, in 1997, he started the business Galactic Communications, which provides secure communication solutions for NGOs, businesses, and individual missionaries. He continues to manage this profitably to this day. In 2010, he pioneered the NCM Team at YWAM COS. Under his leadership, the team grew from two to 20 members, oversees various personal and YWAM-owned business missions, runs a NCM-focused DTS, pioneered the Business and Entrepreneurship School, helped establish several businesses in the 10/40 window, organized tours for US entrepreneurs to visit NCM ventures in the field, and provides support for YWAMers doing NCM worldwide. Mark lives in Colorado Springs with his wife Åsa and has four children and six grandchildren.

 

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