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.

What is the answer to this question?

Have you ever wondered how you can respond to God’s call by being an entrepreneur?

This could be the conflict

Many businessmen and women sometimes live with a great conflict:

They love what they do, but feel great frustration because they would like to serve God in an integral way like pastors and missionaries.

Part of this conflict comes from the belief that entrepreneurship is not a calling from God. Business is one of the solutions God uses to respond to major humanitarian problems and as a great tool to expand God’s kingdom and show his glory.

This is an option

Many entrepreneurs have woken up to this missional reality and are exploiting the resources that business has to reach people, improve cities, and develop nations economically, socially, environmentally and spiritually.

Academic Info

We now have the opportunity to offer our 12-week Business as Mission School (ENCM) online (asynchronous). Students who want more personal resources can opt for in-class lessons here at YWAM’s Almirante Tamandaré, Curitiba base where they will have more interaction with the academic staff.

This will be the first bilingual (Portuguese/English) school we will be running, a partnership between YWAM Colorado Spring and YWAM Almirante Tamandaré. The students will meet daily and take online classes together. This will allow the students to process more deeply together what they are learning. Many of these classes will be facilitated by workers from the Colorado base. The 12-week instruction will be facilitated by teachers who will be teaching the online video classes. The in-person classes will also include site visits to some of the Missionary Businesses near the Almirante Tamandaré YWAM base.

The face-to-face students will continue to interact with the online students as in all ENCM classes. They will be participating in online Zoom classes every Friday with students from around the world and with the teacher of the week.

Course content:

• Marketing
• Relationships in sales
• Operations and Commitments
• Product Development (Disciplined Entrepreneur)
• Brand management
• Planning for leverage/Canvas model
• Laws and Business
• Finance in Business
• Introduction to Business as Mission
• The Biblical Purposes and Values of Business
• Integrating Business with Missions
• Apostolic Entrepreneurship
• BAM weekly business studies

Applications

We’ll share the new date soon.

Contact us at one of the contacts below.

E-mail: necogiocomomissao23@gmail.com
Mobile/WhatsApp: (21) 97209-5990

Investiment

• Registration: R$ 500,00
• School fee: R$ 6,000.00
• Optional practical: Will vary depending on date of travel and location.

Total: R$ 6,500.00

What’s important

• The course will be bilingual and all English-speaking students must apply and pay through YWAM Colorado Springs. Brazilian students must apply and pay through YWAM Almirante Tamandaré, Curitiba, on this page.

This fee only includes accommodation and meals (three meals a day).

* The registration fee must be paid via deposit/bank transfer as soon as the student receives the acceptance letter from the school.

** The registration fee will not be refunded in the event of withdrawal after acceptance at the school.

Payment info

PIX KEY

06.132.231/0001-35 Jovens Com Uma Missão – Jocum Alm Tamanda

Deposit account

JOVENS COM UMA MISSAO JOCUM ALMIRANTE TAMANDARE

CPF/CNPJ: 06132231000135
Banco Ailos: 085
Agência: 0101-5
Conta: 1542119-8
Tipo: Conta Corrente

When making the deposit, the student should send the proof to the email veigashelaine@gmail.com or to Whatsapp +55 21 97209-5990.

Date and Location

• Date

We’ll share this date soon.

• Location

Jocum Almirante Tamandaré Campus

Av. Vereador Wadislau Bugalski, 3.826 – Botiatuba

Almirante Tamandaré/PR – CEP/ZIP CODE 83.511-000

What to bring?

It is essential that each student brings their own study materials and personal computer for their use during school. Students should also bring bed and bath linen, a pillow and a blanket/duvet.

Further information

E-mail: negociocomomissao23@gmail.com
Mobile/WhatsApp: (21) 97209-5990