Larry E. McCrary's "The Marketspace: The Essential Relationships Between the Sending Church, Marketplace Worker, and Missionary Team" offers a compelling argument for the critical role of marketplace missionaries in today's global context.
Shireen Chua is the Director of Third Culture Solutions, which seeks to equip individuals and organisations to thrive in an interculturally complex and global world. She helps us explore how to develop greater intercultural intelligence at work.
Andrew Scott, President of OM USA, shares his insights on reimagining global mission, understanding our role as image bearers and why all that matters for our everyday work.
Sarah Hunter shares her experience of integrating faith within the corporate world during her time at GlaxoSmithKline.
Katie had a real desire for all her clients to discover their career purpose, but especially to help Christians look at their career from a biblical perspective. And Katie enjoyed helping Christians – as she puts it – ‘unpack’ God’s plan for them.
Shirley Ralston, over at Upstream Collective, has a compelling three-part blog series on marketplace ministry based on her own years of experience. In part two, she unpacks the importance of evaluating your own worldview, integrating into local life, attending to your health, and engaging in ministry.
Ruth Valerio reflects that in today's fast-paced world, the pursuit of money and career success often takes centre stage, yet she has been learning from her personal work journey the importance of living a life sold out for God.
A career in consulting has given Steve Osei-Mensah opportunities to ask – and try and answer – many interesting questions. He shares how paying attention, loving our neighbours and simply the way we work can bring opportunities to share Jesus Christ.
As we think about how to share the gospel in our workplaces, please do consider how our attitudes and actions towards God's creation however small they might appear, will be noticed. They're important to God, and there'll be noticed by our colleagues. As Robert Frost once said ‘when Christians take the earth seriously, then people will take the Gospel seriously’.
We have too often felt that to be missional we have to leave behind our career, qualifications and skills to serve the Lord abroad. Yet this narrow view of mission is not what God has for us. Instead, God calls us to use the education, opportunities, blessings and skills he has given us. Maybe His plans for you are bigger than your own?
When we take a deeper dive into the Bible, we see that work is not a bolt-on to our faith. It's not an activity we pursue separately. It's not a necessary evil, or even just a platform for evangelism. Our work matters to God. Because in the beginning, God worked.
Could I serve God and make disciples of all nations whilst working in a secular industry in the UK?
Mark Sullivan, a data analyst, explores how he sees his work fitting into the Great Commission.
Jonathan Thiessen, co-founder of Scatter Global, challenges us to consider the marketplace opportunities and kingdom impact Christians can have in communities and workplaces around the globe.
Can our ordinary, everyday lives really make a difference for God’s kingdom?
Tim Yearsley from LICC helps us consider the opportunities before us as Christians in our workplaces, when we show up with a belief that God’s love isn’t only for Sundays.