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Help us Identify the 25 Most Admired Kingdom Companies |
In case you missed it, here's the previous list posted close to two years ago. Add a comment, or email me your nomination and we'll post a new list soon!
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| Something Big is Brewing with E.A. Brevita + Espresso Americano |
 Last week I had the incredible opportunity to spend some time with Ron DeMiglio and Jeff Ericson, the partners behind Espresso Americano and E.A. Brevita, a few very unique companies who has leveraged technology to fuel their rapidly growing business. Click here to watch a quick video about their story.
The group is based just north of Seattle. If you're in that neck of the woods, I would definitely recommend seeing if you can buy these guys lunch and hear their story. Their passion for business and ministry is evident in every conversation and every crazy big dream that these guys talk about.
Recently, their E.A. Brevita Cooperative Association (http://www.eabrevita.com/) earned the award of "Best New Product at the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) Show in Minneapolis. Forbes recently wrote a great story about their unique approach and their partnership with Amazon, check it out by clicking here.
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| Affinity for Salinity by Ron DeMiglio of E.A. Brevita |
 Have you ever wondered why they call it the Dead Sea?
The name has always made that body of water seem a little ominous to me. It's called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it or can live in it. By all measurements it is some of the saltiest water anywhere on the earth.
The Dead Sea is almost six times as salty as the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean and nearly ten times as salty as the Mediterranean. The Dead Sea is a completely landlocked body of water and the salinity increases with its depth. The surface of the Dead Sea is fed by the River Jordan and thus, not as salty. Down to about 130 feet (40 meters), it is comprised of about 300 grams of salt per kilogram of seawater. Below 300 feet, though, the sea has 332 grams of salt per kilogram of seawater and is completely saturated...
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Fall Event Spotlight: Business as Mission Events in 2008 |
 Events continue to be a place to educate and inspire more business leaders to get involved. .
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| EC Group International Announces Business as Mission Survey 2007 - taking the Pulse of the Movement |
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 This represents the first annual report on the state of the global Business as Mission movement. While there is some information available on Business as Mission, very few, if any, research surveys have focused on measuring the extent or impact of the movement.
This foundational study was designed to find answers to some key questions related specifically to the perspectives and practices of Business as Mission around the world. When Business as Mission practitioners began integrating a traditional business worldview with a traditional mission worldview many years ago, they were faced with a number of fundamental issues and challenges. The current study shows how the BAM movement has addressed challenges and identifies new areas that merit further research. Created by EC Institute and based on responses from nearly 500 practitioners, educators, and supporters of Business as Mission, the study addresses the following key issues:
Read on...
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| Life Lessons Over Lunch from Andy Stanley and NorthPoint |
 For years, Andy Stanley and NorthPoint Community Church have been recognized for creating leadership tools. Recently, while speaking at a conference I met someone whose business had been greatly impacted by a new initiative called "Life Lessons Over Lunch." This is a marketplace initiative where participants meet on a regular basis to view a messages on DVD over lunch. It exists to offer an opportunity for believers and non-believers to come and engage on leadership principles that contain Biblical values. I is a simple and effective way to share faith and invest in others at work. Many organizations have benefited greatly from these lessons that they do every other week, and there is very little preparation that has to go into this.
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| New Business as Mission DVD- The Call to Business |
 The Call to Business DVD is a new resource from the group "A Call to Business" located across the pond in Great Britain. Here's a quote from their recent email newsletter:
"The DVD continues to make a strong impact in many nations, from personal testimonies of radical life changes to whole businesses being given away. It has now been translated into Russian, ready for distribution in a number of locations. Most recently it has been aired by satellite to a potential 50 million homes! This wake-up call is inspiring many people to understand their 'ordinary everyday lives' in a different light! Our ethos is to give away this resource - we believe God loves us to practice generosity. This has included a number of bulk shipments to various nations. We're grateful to those who have added a donation to their postage and packing. Donations may be made via the website at any point, or directly to our office. In particular if you would like to sponsor bulk shipments contact admin@acalltobusiness.co.uk."
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| Christian Business Owner/CEO - Bear Fruit, Much Fruit by Buck Jacobs of the C12 Group |
 If God paid the highest price that could be paid to provide for the salvation of His children, how does, or should, that fact interdict the way we view and operate the businesses that we manage for Him? If it's His property how do we use it in alignment with His ultimate ourpose, recociliation with His children? I see it this way. The business brings us into contact with countless people who will never likely darken the door of a church. (Estimates vary between 70-75% of Americans are unchurched) Every time we have contact with the customer, employee, competitor, or supplier who make up the daily relational interaction of business, we have the opportunity to give them an impression about God. This happens as a result of how we interact with them in the various roles that we play with one another as we "do business." We have the same opportunity as we relate to them as neighbors, relatives, friends, or others that we rub shoulders with simply by living in the world. | |
