Designed to Thrive
iBAM is a church-building ministry with a passion for empowering believers to fully thrive. By thrive we mean fully provision daily needs, catalyze ministry in their local church, bless the entire community, and achieve full maturity in their walk with Christ.
Designed to Thrive
iBAM is a church-building ministry with a passion for empowering believers to fully thrive. By thrive we mean fully provision daily needs, catalyze ministry in their local church, bless the entire community, and achieve full maturity in their walk with Christ.
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WHY I TRAIN – THE JOY OF SPREADING THE GOSPEL
As an entrepreneur and veteran trainer with iBAM, John has experienced the joys and challenges that come with traveling to parts of the world where people face persecution for their beliefs. Here, he explains what keeps him returning to even the most remote, rugged...
WHERE OUR TRAINERS TAKE US
Proverbs 19:21 ESV “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.” We could not deliver our program without volunteer trainers. Working in five different locations around the world, these entrepreneurs and business people...
GIVE A MAN A FISH: BUSINESSES AS MISSIONS IN THE UKRAINE
One of the biggest problems faced by families in the Ukraine is a lack of jobs. In the East where we live, the military conflict has caused massive pain and loss on the believers. Often, fathers and husbands leave for a long time and leave the city or even...
Kosovo
The team at iBAM is excited to begin projects in the country of Kosovo in 2016. This war-torn region is rebuilding after over a decade of war in the 1980’s and 90’s. The nation of Kosovo is a young country with an average population age of 25. Economic opportunity is one of the biggest needs in this fledgling nation.
*Photo of Prishtina, Kosovo by Bleron Çaka
Central Asia
What should we do? I have been searching for work for months, but have found nothing. This job in Moscow will pay twice as much as the best job I can find here. Yes, but what of our ministry here? Yes, but what of our children’s future…?
The above exemplifies the many hard choices the faithful servants of Christ face in Central Asia.