Solve global issues with innovative BAM solutions
We champion the need for for-profit, and Christ-centered solutions to strategic global issues such as poverty, slavery, unreached peoples, unemployment, environmental degradation and corruption.
Our Vision:
A movement of businesses transforming people and nations – for God’s glory!
Our Mission:
To Invigorate the business as mission movement globally
GATHERING BAM PRACTITIONERS DISCOVERING BEST PRACTICES FOR BAM SHARING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
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We have developed a ‘one-stop shop’ resource directory for Business a Mission in partnership with the BAM Resource Team.
How We Do What We Do
Our History
BAM Global is the new name for the BAM Global Think Tank. The Think Tank was founded in 2011 to open up an unprecedented forum for discussion, collaboration and networking on business as mission, amongst practitioners and thought-leaders from around the world. The Think Tank brought together collaborative groups to look at current issues vital to the business as mission community. Other groups gathered in geographic regions and countries. The Think Tank initiative culminated in a BAM Global Congress in April 2013 and continues to publish reports from its working groups.
BAM Global will build on the work of the Think Tank, facilitating communication and cooperation in the business as mission community. BAM Global Think Tank working groups will continue to create a knowledge-base for the business as mission community.
In partnership with the Business as Mission Resource Team, BAM Global is building the Business as Mission website to be a one-stop shop for BAM resources. The BAM Review blog is regularly published from the website, providing fresh, topical content for the BAM community.
Our mission continues to be to enrich and invigorate the business as mission movement, resulting in a significant increase in the quantity and quality of businesses and business people involved in God’s mission to the world — the whole church, taking the whole gospel, to the whole world.
Meet the Team
Meet our Chairing Team and Advisory Board
Courtney Rountree Mills
Advisory Board
Courtney is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Sinapis in Nairobi, Kenya, which exists to empower aspiring entrepreneurs in the developing world with innovative, scalable business ideas. Courtney formerly worked for McKinsey & Company where she advised Fortune 500 companies on strategic issues.
David Skews
Advisory Board
David is the former CEO of EDP Health, Safety and Environment Ltd. a company he founded in 1989. For over 35 years David has owned and led businesses in the UK and more recently in SE Asia. David is a business coach for various businesses in Asia and has started a foundation to support effective BAM practice.
Jai Sharma
Advisory Board
Jai is CEO of Thread Harvest, a social enterprise that is changing lives through the sale of clothing, accessories and footwear with inspiring stories of fashion and social change. Prior to starting Thread Harvest, Jai worked in the financial sector in Australia.
Jo Plummer
Chairing Team
Jo has been writing and developing resources on business as mission for over 16 years. She launched businessasmission.com in 2002 and is currently the Editor of The BAM Review. Jo served as co-editor of the Lausanne Occasional Paper in 2004 and is the executive editor of the BAM Global series of reports.
João Mordomo
Chairing Team
João is co-founder and Senior Vice President of Crossover Global, an international church-planting mission organization. He serves several BAM businesses variously as owner, manager and board member, and writes, teaches and lectures regularly on business as mission. He holds doctorates in intercultural studies and religious studies.
Joseph Vijayam
Advisory Board
Joseph is the Managing Director of Olive Technology Limited, an IT company with offices in the USA and India. As well as seeking to integrate business and mission in his own life and business, Joseph also regularly writes, speaks and consults on business as mission.
Julian Foe
Advisory Board
Julian is the Managing Partner of QQ a HR consulting company and the former Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Retail Institute. He is the Founder and Coordinator of the Kingdom Business Community, a marketplace ministry network in Indonesia with over 3,000 business owners and professionals.
Mats Tunehag
Chairing Team
Mats is a representative on Business as Mission for both the Lausanne Movement and World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission. Mats is a regular speaker and writer on business as mission and Convened the Lausanne business as mission think tank in 2002 to 2004.
Mick Bates
Advisory Board
Mick has developed a passion for imbuing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in others. He has spent the last 12 years in higher education, primarily as the Founding Program Chair and Associate Professor for Business Administration at Life Pacific College. Prior to that, Mick spent 20 years in business in call center technology start-ups.
Merari Peña
Advisory Board
Merari is the founder and CEO of Forever Crystals, a design, distribution and retail business for fashion jewelry in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Merari has grown Forever Crystals from one jewelry booth, to retail stores and booths in 14 locations. She has a passion for business as mission and is a BAM advocate in Latin America.
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