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Web Links
Marketplace Ministries
- Avodah Institute
The primary purpose of The Avodah Institute is to help meet the spiritual needs of people in the marketplace. They accomplish their goal by providing information, ideas, events, and a repository of knowledge and understanding on the issues surrounding the integration of faith and work.
- Business Proverbs
The purpose of this organization is to help businesses apply Scripture to everyday business problems and issues. They produce a weekly business commentary, a monthly syndicated newspaper article, and a daily e-mail.
- Canadian Tentmakers Network
Canadian Tentmaker Network (CTN) is a Canada-wide association of individuals and groups committed to tentmaking as a strategy for representing Christ Jesus globally.
- Christian in Commerce
Christians in Commerce is an ecumenical Christian organization whose purpose is to bring the presence of Jesus Christ into the marketplace so that it more closely reflects God's will and purpose. We encourage Christian men and women to be Christ in their conduct and example, and to bring truth, integrity and compassion to their workplaces.
- Christian Working Woman
The purpose of The Christian Working Woman is to equip and encourage Christians in the workplace to love Christ more and to demonstrate this love by applying biblical principles to their lives and utilizing their gifts and abilities to build His kingdom.
- Executive Ministries
Executive Ministries exists to equip Christian executives to use the blessing of their business success and community prominence to point their peers to Christ and to disciple them to do the same. The key components of this win-build-send strategy are distinctive evangelistic outreaches and dynamic discipleship Bible studies. Executive Ministries reaches out to business owners, entrepreneurs, corporate officers, senior partners in professional firms, as well as retired executives.
- Faith At Work
Faith at Work (New Zealand) provides training and resources related to career and life planning, the theology of work and vocation, everyday spirituality, ethics for business and the marketplace, and the ministry and mission of the laity in daily life from a Christian perspective.
- Faith at Work Magazine
Faith at Work is a national network of progressive Christians at the growing edge of the church: grounded in biblical faith; related to God, self, others and the earth; sustained through intentional community; committed to faith at work in the world.
- FaithWorks Magazine
FaithWorks is a bimonthly print and electronic magazine for contemporary Christians. Their mission is to engage Christians in dialogue with their world and empower them to integrate faith and life.
- Forum for Faith in the Workplace
The Forum for Faith in the Workplace is an ecumenical Christian association whose mission is to assist individuals in fully applying their personal faith to their work experience, and other aspects of daily living.
- Freedom in Christ Ministries
Freedom in Christ is an international, interdenominational ministry which exists to glorify God by prayerfully and strategically equipping and resourcing churches, Christian organizations and mission groups in keeping with the Great Commandment in order to accomplish the Great Commission.
- LifeChasers
The mission of LifeChasers is to encourage, inspire and model: (1) How to live out a winsome, genuine faith in a rough-and-tumble world. (2)How to be an effective and strategic influence in culture, believing people are invited by God to be both salt and light.
- Marketplace Christian Network
The purpose of Marketplace Christian Network is a group of Christian world-wide, joined together in one single vision, to actively proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ where we work with words and our lifestyle and be a beacon of light in this decadent age.
- Marketplace Leaders
Marketplace Leader's purpose is to raise up and train men and women to fulfill their calling in and through the workplace and to view their work as their ministry. Their primary means of accomplishing this is through four key focuses: building unity, training new leaders, publishing and consulting.
- Marketplace Ministries
Marketplace Ministries is a faith-based employee assistance program and provides a chaplain service to secular businesses.
- Marketplace Network
Marketplace Network is a non-profit organization whose primary mission is to motivate and equip Christians to apply faith to work. They facilitate their mission by providing products and services including: forums, small group curriculum, workshops, classes, resources, study materials and on-line discussion.
- Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA)
Mennonite Economic Development Associates is an association of persons who are committed to the nurture and expression of their Christian faith in a business or work setting.
- Mockler Center
The Colman M. Mockler Center equips the church and its members to bring the work of Christ into the activities of daily life, especially life in the workplace. The Center engages in education, direct ministry, and research to bring the resources of Biblical interpretation, Christian theology and ethics, and practical ministry into the working world. Its mission is carried out in three areas: in the Gordon-Conwell community, in partnership with churches, and directly in the workplace.
- Needle's Eye Ministries, Inc.
NEM an interdenominational ministry, seeks to present Jesus Christ to persons in the workplace, to encourage the development of their Christian lifestyle and leadership, and to support the local church in marketplace issues.
- Priority Associates
Priority Associates is a resource to business and professional men and women, helping them to develop spiritually, personally, and professionally.
- Scruples
The Scruples web site is a resource for marketplace Christians. Contents includes: a calendar, directory, forums, library, links publications and seminars.
- The Coalition For Ministry In Daily Life
The purpose of this ministry is to be an international ecumenical not-for-profit partnership supporting ministries in Christian daily life.
- The Crossroads Center for Faith and Work
The Crossroads Center for Faith and Work serves women and men of all faiths, by surfacing the connections and blurring the lines between faith, spirituality, and deepest values and day-to-day work as professionals, volunteers, homemakers and family members.
- The Faith & Work Project
This site researches and promotes the application of Christian faith and values to business and organizational life.
- The High Calling of Our Daily Work
TheHighCalling.org aims to connect people in the ordinary circumstances of life with the faith that undergirds and sustains all that we do. Howard E. Butt, Jr., has dedicated his life to both a family business and a ministry for Christian lay renewal. His vision for the vital role of the laity in the church and daily life has led him to write several books and produce one-minute radio spots entitled The High Calling of Our Daily Work. This site is an effort to provide you with a tool to delve deeper into the concepts introduced in those spots.
- Value of the Person
Through consulting, seminars, books and other products, Value of the Person, promotes Theory “R” Management. More than just a program, Value of the Person connects the head and heart, the workplace and the home.
- Watchman Christian Business and Marketplace Connections
Watchmen are Christian men and women on watch for the highest good of the cities and towns, companies and corporations where God has placed them. They see their workplace position as strategic in building the Kingdom of God.
- Workplace Spirituality
The purpose of this site is to assit men and women to express their spirituality in the workplace through career calling, ethics, economic justice, spiritual practices, and spiritual values.
- WorkplaceMinistry.Com
Helping men and women understand, experience, and fulfill their calling to "work as ministry."
- WOWI - Workplace Wisdom Interactive
WOWI is a global Christian alliance dedicated to teaching individuals how to integrate and effectively apply Biblical principles in the workplace by helping them to strengthen their relationship with God. Their mission is to encourage individual believers to make a positive difference in their workplace and community and to encourage unity in the body of Christ.
Professions
- Affiliation of Christian Engineers (ACE)
ACE is a newly-formed "virtual" organization of and for Christian engineers, around the world. In keeping with their technical professional focus, ACE is committed to using the best of today's technology to bring value to its members. Stated simply, they believe that ACE should add value - to its members, to the engineering profession, to society at large, and to the Body of Christ.
The purpose of ACE is to provide its members numerous ways to network and obtain information relevant to the profession of engineering and their common faith. Thereby, ACE will encourage its members to be "salt, light, and leaven" in their places of employment and in the engineering profession as a whole.
- Business & Professional Ministry
Sponsored by the Navigators, this site exists to help business and professionals integrate and extend their faith.
- Business & Professional Network
The mission of the BPN is to facilitate business investment by Christians of the 1st World with believers in poor and developing countries that will enhance the welfare of those nations and contribute to the work of the Gospel.
- Business and Professional Ethics
This site includes a small selection of short papers from their corporate ethics consultancy plus links to other selected sources of useful information on business and professional ethics. Further content will be added from time to time.
- Business by the Book
Christian Financial Concepts puts on Business by the Book seminars.
- Christian Leadership Ministries
The mission of Christian Leadership Ministries is to reach and equip professors to change the world for Christ.
- Christian Medical & Dental Society
The Christian Medical & Dental Associations mission is to motivate, educate, and equip Christian physicians and dentists to glorify God.
- Christians In Photojournalism
This site is dedicated to the members of the Christians in Photojournalism network. Works of art are displayed.
- Corporate Chaplains of America
Corporate Chaplains of America (CCA) provides genuine "Caring in the Workplace" through its workforce of "Certified Workplace Chaplains". The mission of CCA is to build relationships with employees through chaplains with the hope of gaining permission to share the good news of Jesus Christ in a non-threatening manner.
- Fellowship of Companies for Christ International
FCCI, the Fellowship of Companies for Christ International, is an organization - a fellowship – that exists to minister not just "to" you, but "through" you to the companies you represent.
- Following Christ Conference
Following Christ is a conference for graduate students, faculty and professionals. Fifteen focused tracks will cover the full range of professional and intellectual disciplines, from the humanities and sciences to business and technology. Following Christ promises both to encourage and to challenge Christians pursuing study, work, and worship for God’s world. This conference is co-sponsored by InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministries and InterVarsity Press.
- InterVarsity Grad and Faculty Ministry
The goal of this ministry is to see each Christian graduate student and every Christian faculty member share their four ministry commitments: community; spiritual formation; faith, learning and practice; evangelism and service.
- InterVarsity MBA Ministry
This ministry ministers to MBA students attending business schools throughout the United States.
- Media Fellowship International
The mission of Media FellowshipInternational (MFI) is reaching media and entertainment professionals worldwide for Christ. The vision of MFI is to minister among media and entertainment professionals in key arts and media cities worldwide who are seeking safe spiritual haven; transforming them into Christian leaders who serve, challenge, and influence.
- Nurses Christian Fellowship
In response to God's love, grace and truth: The Purpose of Nurses Christian Fellowship, as a ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance in nursing, within education and practice, witnessing communities of
nursing students and nurses who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord: growing in love -- for God,
God's Word,God's people of every ethnicity and culture and God's purposes in the world.
- The Godly Business Woman
The goal of this site is to educate, inspire and encourage women to be all they can be through Jesus Christ. They want to be a resource on which women can depend and shed light on God's view of the responsibilities women have been given.
- With You Always - Drawings
These drawings depict ordinary people in their everyday environment, with the addition of showing the presence of Jesus Christ and His involvement in those routine activities. The objective of this "With you always" series is to help Christians everywhere visualize the reality of Jesus' presence in their lives at all times, particularly during those everyday tasks where we spend most of our time.
- Young Business Leaders
Professional outreach from Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, AL.
Careers
- Intercristo
Intercristo is a Christian job-referral service. They match Christians with jobs in Christian non-profit organizations, based upon their expertise, education, geographic preference, and compensation concerns.
- The Living Workplace
(new)
Look at new ideas..the future of work, the workplace, work/life balance challenges and their impact on you and your working environment. Learn the emerging authentic language of 'the human contribution', and the new shared values framework.
Churches/Denominations
- Centered Life
The mission of this organization is to awaken and align personal and organizational callings to live faithfully in God’s world and to equip Christians to live out their faith within God’s world.
- His Church at Work
The mission of His Church at Work is to encourage the Church to join God where He is moving in the workplace, assisting pastors and the local church in helping men and woman understand, experience, and fulfill their God-given calling of work as ministry.
- The Center for Baptismal Living
The mission of this site is to join with others in reclaiming the centrality of Baptism in the life of the Church and the life of every Christian through providing a multifaceted effort to support, encourage, enhance, and equip congregations and individuals in the ministry and vocation of the Baptized. While the Episcopal / Anglican Church is their primary mission, they welcome and share with all Christians.
- The Center for Parish Development
The Center's purpose is to help churches strive to become more faithful and effective missional communities that engage the culture with the gospel, liberate themselves from Christendom bondage, and equip themselves to discern and participate in God's redemptive mission.
- Wooddale's Workplace Ministry
The purpose of Wooddale's Workplace Ministry is to assist people in effectively integrating faith and work, therefore honoring God by influencing people towards Jesus Christ in and through work life.
Leadership
- De Pree Leadership Center
The De Pree Leadership Center cultivates the character of leaders and encourages the integration of faith and public life. They facilitate conversations, mentoring relationships, and alliances across occupational lines in order to forge more collaborative forms of leadership. The Center's primary concerns are with personal and institutional transformation grounded in spiritual as well as moral commitments.
- The Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership
The goal of The Greenleaf Center is to help people understand the principles and practices of servant-leadership; to nurture colleagues and institutions by providing a focal point and opportunities to share thoughts and ideas on servant-leadership; to produce and publish new resources by others on servant-leadership; and to connect servant-leaders in a network of learning.
"Other"
- Koinonia Partners
Koinonia Partners, Inc. is a Christian organization seeking to be a "demonstration plot for the Kingdom of God". They are committed to non-violence and peaceful solutions to society's problems, reconciliation among all people, Christian discipleship, and the empowerment of the poor, the neglected and the oppressed.
- Regent Business Review
Regent Business Review is an electronic magazine published by the Regent University Graduate School of Business. The mission of RBR is to equip and encourage Christians to be more God-honoring leaders and managers.
- Salt of the Earth
(new)
An online resource for social justice.
- The Alban Institute
The mission of the Alban Institute is to gather, generate, and provide practical knowledge across denominational lines thorough action research, books and periodicals, consulting and training services, and education seminars for those involved with congregations.
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