Ministry Focus
Business & Community Development
Businesses are driven by profits and our business ministries are no different. We’re not talking dollars and cents — we’re talking lives and eternity.
By developing small businesses and using them reach impoverished or hard-to-reach communities, our missionaries are teaching important skills and providing meaningful jobs to people in need — all while sharing the gospel. These unique business ministries are helping our missionaries improve communities, build meaningful relationships, and share the gospel and disciple workers in regions of the world where Jesus’ name isn’t widely known.
Use Your Business Skills on the Mission Field
We need innovative, business-minded people who are passionate about reaching communities for Christ. We’re always looking for new ways to use business as missions or for people eager to plug into the variety of business our missionaries have already launched.
If you want to combine your business mind and your heart for missions, we want to talk to you.
Is God calling you to use your skills on the mission field?
Opportunities
Agricultural Development
South AsiaServe as a coordinator for developing agricultural programs that help tribal people move from slash-and-burn farming methods to stable hillside gardens and orchards.
Business as Missions
South AsiaThere are many opportunities for business people to have an eternal impact in this rapidly developing region.
Business Start-Up
JapanUse your entrepreneurial skills to serve Japanese Christians.
Projects
Project Fit
Project Fit includes a CrossFit Gym (LIFT) and church (Rx Church). We use the gym as a way to build community and relationships with middle-class Thais. Rx Church was started as our gym members began to follow Jesus. Our goal is to start more gyms throughout the city within the next 5 years.…
Freedom Business for Women (India)
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
Live Global | Business as Mission
The Live Global Business As Mission initiative strives to partner North American business people with local business partners in countries around the world to create self-sustaining Christian communities. There is a need for profit-generating, Christ-centered solutions to engage unreached people groups, and to address strategic global issues such as poverty, slavery, unemployment, environmental degradation, and corruption.…
Project Fit
Project Fit includes a CrossFit Gym (LIFT) and church (Rx Church). We use the gym as a way to build community and relationships with middle-class Thais. Rx Church was started as our gym members began to follow Jesus. Our goal is to start more gyms throughout the city within the next 5 years.…
Freedom Business for Women (India)
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
Live Global | Business as Mission
The Live Global Business As Mission initiative strives to partner North American business people with local business partners in countries around the world to create self-sustaining Christian communities. There is a need for profit-generating, Christ-centered solutions to engage unreached people groups, and to address strategic global issues such as poverty, slavery, unemployment, environmental degradation, and corruption.…
Timothy & Leandra Hawes – Bible Clubs
Watch Video Reaching the nation of Papua New Guinea through Bible Clubs in the public schools. God graciously allowed us to reach our goal of 5k in 5 days in 2023 and once again in 2024. Our new goal for 2025 is 8k in five days by May of 2025.…
Light for the Soums
Mongolia is split between two sides; one side is the city where you can find modern conveniences and job opportunities. The other side is the rural area of Mongolia where people live in small towns called Soum centers. A Soum is the equivalent of a county.…
The Gambia Community Health Evangelism (CHE)
Community Health Evangelism (CHE) ministries are working to transform the well-being of rural communities in The Gambia through evangelism, discipleship, health education, health prevention, and community development. Our team applies CHE principles and lessons alongside our existing adult literacy ministry. There are CHE lessons that can apply to almost any skillset.…
Balkan Ministry Center and Apartment
In this predominately Muslim country, there is a great need for patience and deep relationships to be built and fostered over time. There is a growing team of missionaries and frequent short-term teams who together are showing God’s love through church planting, education and sports ministry.…
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – Carpentry and Welding
Many of the men in the village hardened by evil and fighting will not come to a church service, but come with enthusiasm to a carpentry or welding class. What a joy to share God’s work with these men in a non threatening environment that has opened the door for them to follow Christ and come to church with their families.…
Live Global | New Hope Nepal
New Hope Nepal supports community and uplifts the living standards of the poor, needy and vulnerable lives, giving them hope to look beyond this worldly materialistic livelihood. NHN prioritizes the moral values and behavior of all and shares God’s love with everyone.…
Brilla Café
Brilla Café is a ministry that creates a third-space in our community of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, where deep conversations are held about life and faith, relationships are formed over a good cup of coffee, and Christ is shared and lived out in front of all who enter.…
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – Bibles and Textbooks
There is such hunger among the public school students of Papua New Guinea for the Word of God. We are seeking to buy a 20-foot container of 35,000 Bibles, which cost $2.88 each, for a total of $100,750 with shipping. These will be distributed across the five provinces where we currently have Bible Clubs and teach Christian Citizenship Value Education.…
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – Food Outreach
Through the food outreach, God opened doors to share the gospel with those whose lives have been devastated by poverty and tragedy. This included Friday night sports outreaches, Friends Sunday at Kesusaro, and Christmas games. WATCH VIDEO …
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – GBBC and Ministry
Goroka Baptist Bible College (GBBC) Goroka Baptist Bible College not only exists to train students academically but also to give them practical experience in the ministry. We have over 400 graduates out across the country who pastor over 100 churches in Papua New Guinea.…
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – Drinking Water Filtration
Clean water is something we take for granted. Here at Goroka Baptist Bible College, clean water is something that is essential to the health of the students and staff. Previously, we have had many typhoid epidemics due to contaminated river water.…
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – Solar Outreach
Many local pastors have no power and light to study their Bible at night. Daytime hours are spent working long hours in their garden and village. Many a pastor has thanked us with a tear in their eye for a solar light that only costs about $33.…
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – Church Planting/Evangelism
Keisusaro was originally a place known for witchcraft and sorcery. Now praise God, we are meeting every Sunday with many people coming from the surrounding areas. The new steel church building is erected with services on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday sports outreach, and Saturday women’s Bible Study.…
Timothy and Leandra Hawes – Road and Vehicle
The rugged terrain of Papua New Guinea brings isolation to people groups that are in actuality fairly close. Gaining road access to new villages is crucial to the church planting and Bible Club ministry. What a blessing when we gained road access to Kapagu, a village ravaged by tribal fighting.…
The Gambia Guesthouse
The Gambia Guesthouse is a not-for-profit ministry and retreat center for ABWE missionaries, visitors and like-minded Christian servants in The Gambia. This beautiful property near the capital city of Banjul serves as the urban ministry center and also a place to rest, retreat, refresh, and refill after a long plane trip or a long ferry ride to do some overdue grocery shopping. …
The Gambia Building Expansion Project
In the rural village of Ndungu Kebbeh, sits the ABWE The Gambia ministry center which has had a gospel presence in the community since 1979. The Lord has blessed us with several acres of property, community buildings, and residential facilities for career missionaries, and students of West African language and culture.…
