In this powerful episode, we unpack one of the most biblically sound, economically proven, and spiritually multiplying systems for global transformation: IBAM’s Three Fish Model.

Traditional charity often results in temporary relief — but not long-term change. Today, we reveal why most giving fails to produce lasting impact, and how a simple, biblical model is empowering entrepreneurs, strengthening churches, and multiplying disciples across Africa, Asia, and beyond.

Whether you’re a strategic giver, a faith-driven entrepreneur, or a church leader longing for a more sustainable missions model, this episode will shift how you see generosity, discipleship, and Kingdom impact forever.

🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

1. The Problem With Traditional Giving

Why most donations create temporary relief, not transformation

The rise of “impact anxiety” among donors

Why strategic givers crave sustainability and transparency

2. Why Business-as-Mission Works

How business becomes a discipleship engine

Why work is worship, not a “secular” activity

How entrepreneurs naturally become community influencers

3. The Three Fish Model Explained

Give a Fish: Startup seed capital that restores dignity and opens doors.

Teach to Fish: Biblical business training that creates sustainability.

Equip to Disciple: The secret multiplier — entrepreneurs discipling through their businesses.

4. Real Stories of Transformation

Aziza — Five flower shop branches across Central Asia, employing missionaries and funding church growth

Suryan — Using his business to employ and disciple struggling students in Indonesia

Elijah & the Chicken Business — A business funding youth ministry, feeding families, and spreading the Gospel in Zambia

5. The Ripple Effect of One Entrepreneur

How one empowered believer impacts:

Their family

Their employees

Their church

Their village

And future generations

6. Why $10/Month Actually Multiplies

The myth of “small gifts don’t matter”

How IBAM tracks, measures, and reports impact

Why this model aligns perfectly with strategic, faith-driven givers

• 00:00 Inspiring Intro
• 01:06 Donor Dilemma
• 02:16 Charity vs Multiplication
• 04:13 Three Fish Model
• 06:02 Business Discipleship
• 09:52 Trust and Impact
• 11:11 Join the Movement
• 12:33 Closing Action

“This isn’t charity. This is sustainable, Gospel-centered multiplication.”

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In this powerful episode, we confront a truth most believers feel but rarely say out loud: Traditional charity meets needs… but it doesn't transform lives.

Billions of dollars flow into missions and global poverty every year.

Yet poverty cycles remain unbroken.

Churches stay dependent on outside funding.

And local believers struggle without the tools, training, and opportunity they need to thrive.

This episode introduces the gap between relief and transformation—and reveals why the model we’ve inherited is not enough to disciple nations.

You’ll discover IBAM’s Three-Fish Model (Give • Teach • Equip) and hear real stories from Africa showing how biblical entrepreneurship is creating sustainable change, discipleship multiplication, and community-wide impact.

If you’ve ever felt a holy discontent with how traditional charity works…

If you’ve ever wondered why poverty cycles don’t break…

If you know in your spirit that generosity is supposed to multiply—

This episode will open your eyes.

💡 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

1️⃣ The Hidden Crisis Most Donors Don’t Realize

2️⃣ Why Traditional Charity Creates Dependency (Not Dignity)

3️⃣ The Biblical, Sustainable Model That Actually Works

4️⃣ Real Stories of Transformation from Africa

5️⃣ The Rising “Holy Discontent” in the Church

6️⃣ How $10 a Month Can Multiply More Than You Expect

• 00:00 Faith and Business
• 01:02 The Poverty Gap
• 02:56 Breaking Dependency
• 05:13 The IBAM Model
• 06:13 Real Stories
• 08:52 Lasting Change
• 10:45 Call to Action
• 11:51 Conclusion

“Relief without discipleship does not multiply.”

Learn more about the IBAM mission here - https://www.ibam.org/ 

In this powerful episode, we explore the transformational shift from giver to builder—and how God is raising up Kingdom-minded leaders around the world to create long-term, sustainable Gospel impact.

Featuring the inspiring testimony of Elijah Aveza, chairman of Awana Zambia’s board and an IBAM trainee, you’ll hear how a simple chicken business is doing far more than generating income—it's discipling a nation. Through IBAM’s biblical entrepreneurship training, Elijah and countless others are learning to build businesses that sustain ministries, empower families, and spread the Gospel across Africa.

This episode blends real field stories, spiritual transformation, and practical discipleship. Whether you're a donor, business leader, or someone who wants your giving to matter long after you're gone—this message will shift your mindset and ignite your calling.

🎧 What You’ll Learn

1. Why traditional charity often falls short

And how sustainable business creates impact that continues long after a donation is spent.

2. How IBAM uses business as a discipleship tool

Faith isn’t separate from work—it's integrated into every business IBAM helps build.

3. The field story of Elijah’s chicken business

How one entrepreneur is discipling children and funding Awana Zambia through a thriving, Gospel-centered enterprise.

4. The power of mentorship in Kingdom entrepreneurship

See how leaders like Elijah, Mapheso, and Patience are now mentoring others—to grow businesses AND grow disciples.

5. What it really means to move from giver to builder

And why this shift creates legacy-level impact across generations.

• 00:00 Transforming Business
• 01:35 From Giver to Builder
• 02:07 Life-Changing Story
• 03:53 Discipleship Through Business
• 06:06 Builder Mindset
• 07:26 Legacy Impact
• 08:15 Partner for Change
• 09:17 Conclusion

🗣️ Featured Testimonies

Elijah Aveza – IBAM Trainee & Awana Zambia Chairman

“IBAM showed me our business isn’t just income… it’s discipleship. We can sustain ministries like Awana and change the lives of children and families.”

Josephat – IBAM-Awana Administrator

“This partnership empowers people through business while spreading the Gospel—truly putting Jesus’ teachings into practice.”

Mapheso – IBAM Entrepreneur

“IBAM made me disciplined and accountable, and helped me share my faith more effectively.”

Patience – IBAM Entrepreneur

“My business grew, but I grew even more. IBAM taught us how to manage, market, and live out our faith.”

Learn more about the IBAM mission here - https://www.ibam.org/

Something extraordinary happened during the Kingdom Impact Summit — and today, we’re unpacking it.

This wasn’t just an event. It wasn’t hype. It wasn’t another week of online sessions.

It was the ignition of a global movement of believers who are ready to use entrepreneurship as a tool for discipleship, community transformation, and long-term Kingdom impact.

In this episode, Steve recaps what God did through thousands of attendees, 40+ speakers, and the entrepreneurs on the ground who are being trained and funded right now through IBAM. You’ll hear the heart behind the movement, the testimonies emerging from the Summit, and the exciting vision for what comes next.

If you felt something stirring during the Summit… this episode confirms you weren’t imagining it. A shift has begun.

🎧 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

1. Why This Summit Felt Different

2. A Special Thank You to You — The Attendees

3. Honoring Our 40+ Speakers

4. What God Did Through the Summit

5. What’s Coming Next (Don’t Miss This!)

• 00:00 Faith & Business
• 01:02 Summit Highlights
• 03:02 Impact in Action
• 03:49 What's Next
• 05:52 Mission & Vision
• 07:19 Final Call

🌍 About IBAM

IBAM equips and funds Christian entrepreneurs in underserved nations so they can:

1. Launch sustainable local businesses
2. Create jobs and stable income
3. Rise as disciple-makers in their communities
4. Build long-term transformation through Kingdom entrepreneurship

We believe business can change everything — when God is at the center.

📩 Connect & Take Action

✔️ Join the Movement: Become an Impact Partner for just $10/month

✔️ Rewatch the Summit: Encore sessions coming soon

✔️ Follow Impact Stories: See the entrepreneurs you’re helping fund

✔️ Stay in the Loop: Watch for Day 1 of the Post-Summit Journey

Learn more at www.iBAM.org

🙏 Final Word

This Summit was only the spark.

The movement is what comes next.

And you’re invited to be part of it.

The Kingdom Impact Summit may be over, but the mission is just beginning.

In this powerful follow-up episode, Steve Adams reveals how a 3-day event has sparked a global movement — one where over 100 Christian entrepreneurs are building businesses that don’t just create profit… they create disciples.

Discover how the IBAM community is transforming generosity into sustainability through Business as Mission, and learn how your obedience — whether $10 or $1,000 — can literally fund a business, feed a family, and multiply faith for generations to come.

This isn’t charity.

This is Kingdom economics — where faith fuels business, and business fuels discipleship.

🧭 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

1️⃣ From Summit to Movement: How the Kingdom Impact Summit ignited 100 new businesses that are discipling nations.

2️⃣ The 3-Fish Model: How IBAM’s “Give, Teach, Equip” framework turns donations into long-term transformation.

3️⃣ Faith in Action: Stories of real entrepreneurs like Aziza in Kazakhstan and Suryan in Indonesia who are using business to spread the Gospel.

4️⃣ How You Can Join the Mission: Why your obedience — not your income — is what God multiplies for impact.

5️⃣ Building God’s Economy: What happens when entrepreneurs, donors, and churches unite to empower sustainable Kingdom impact.

• 00:00 Mission & Model
• 01:13 Summit Highlights
• 01:48 Real Impact Stories
• 02:42 Why Funding Matters
• 04:42 Live the Commission
• 07:35 Call to Action
• 08:23 Conclusion

💡 Big Takeaway:

Business is more than profit. It’s purpose in motion.

You don’t have to be a pastor to preach — you just need a product that solves a real problem and glorifies God in the process.

🙌 Featured Stories:

Patience (Africa): From one market stall to employing six women who pray before every workday.

Aziza (Kazakhstan): Built five flower-and-coffee branches that fund young missionaries.

Suryan (Indonesia): Helps students find work and faith through his small business.

Elijah & Fegas (Zambia): Using business as ministry to sustain youth programs and disciple future leaders.

Each story proves one thing: when faith meets entrepreneurship, the Gospel advances.

If you’ve ever prayed, “Lord, use me,” this is your moment.

Be part of the next 100 entrepreneurs transforming lives and nations through faith-driven business.

👉 Visit IBAM.org/fund — and build something that outlives you.

What happens when faith and business collide for eternal impact?

In this powerful opening keynote from the Kingdom Impact Summit 2025, Steve Adams, Founder & President of IBAM (International Business as Mission), invites listeners into a global movement redefining how Christians build, lead, and give.

From the jungles of Africa to the streets of Central Asia, Steve shares how business-as-mission is transforming lives—and why the next great mission field isn’t across the ocean, but across your office, your shop, your network, and your influence.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, pastor, or donor, this episode will reignite your vision for work as worship and giving as generational impact.

• 00:00 Opening Inspiration
• 01:03 Summit Welcome
• 03:12 Foundational Voices
• 05:31 Obedience & Strategy
• 07:24 Sustainable Businesses
• 10:42 Transformation Stories
• 12:41 Practical Tools
• 14:29 Multiplication Mission
• 16:29 Concluding Call

🧭 Key Takeaways

1. Business is Ministry: God can use your enterprise as a platform for discipleship.
2. Faith Fuels Sustainability: Strategy follows surrender—wisdom begins in worship.
3. Stories Multiply Faith: Every entrepreneur empowered becomes a ripple of transformation.
4. Equipping Creates Consistency: Systems rooted in Scripture sustain impact.
5. Generosity Multiplies Discipleship: Small gifts can spark generational change.

💛 Join the Movement

👉 Register free at ibam.org/summit

Every registration helps empower a new entrepreneur through IBAM’s training and micro-loan programs.

Together, we can Empower. Educate. Equip.

Together, we can build businesses that make disciples.

What if Monday morning was as sacred as Sunday morning?

In this episode, Steve Adams breaks down one of the most overlooked truths in modern Christianity: business isn’t secular—it’s sacred.

For decades, believers have separated faith from enterprise, but Scripture paints a different picture. From Genesis to Acts, God used work as a vehicle for worship and discipleship. Today, He’s calling a new generation of entrepreneurs, professionals, and pastors to reclaim the marketplace as a mission field.

This episode will reframe the way you see your 9-to-5, your leadership, and your legacy.

Because when business is done God’s way, profit becomes purpose, work becomes worship, and companies become disciple-making movements.

✝️ In This Episode, You’ll Discover

1. The Great Divide: Why so many believers still separate “ministry” and “business”—and how that thinking limits Kingdom impact.

2. The Biblical Blueprint: How Paul, Lydia, and early believers used commerce as a context for mission.

3. The Kingdom ROI Framework: How to measure impact the way heaven does—spiritually, economically, and socially.

4. The Three-Fish Model: The discipleship system that replaces handouts with sustainable, Gospel-centered entrepreneurship.

5. Your Marketplace Calling: How to turn your company, classroom, or calling into a mission field.

• 00:00 Summit Kickoff
• 01:33 Field Story Aziza
• 04:08 Culture Flywheel
• 05:35 Leadership Deep Dive
• 06:16 Africa Mission Models
• 06:50 Scaling Legacy
• 08:31 Faith Meets Business
• 10:37 Closing Invitation

🕊️ Scripture Anchors

Colossians 3:23 — “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”

Matthew 28:19–20 — “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…”

Acts 18:3 — “Paul worked with them, for they were tentmakers by trade.”

Jeremiah 29:7 — “Seek the peace and prosperity of the city…”

💡 Key Quote Moments

“The marketplace is the largest unreached people group on earth.”

“Payroll becomes provision. Excellence becomes evangelism.”

“Business is a discipleship engine when designed God’s way.”

“You don’t need a pulpit to preach. You just need to show up where God’s placed you.”

👉 Register now for free at ibam.org/summit

We’re just days away from the Kingdom Impact Summit—three days that could reshape how you see business, discipleship, and impact.

In this episode, Steve Adams walks you through your 3-Day Plan + Playbook so you can be fully ready for what God is about to do through this global movement of faith-driven entrepreneurs, pastors, and givers.

This isn’t another event.

It’s a move of God through business—a space where work becomes worship, and business becomes mission.

You’ll discover exactly what to expect each day, how to use your Playbook for maximum growth, and why your preparation matters as much as your participation.

✝️ What You’ll Learn

1. The Vision Behind the Summit: Why IBAM is gathering thousands of believers to disciple nations through business.

2. Your 3-Day Schedule:

Day 1 – FOUNDATIONS (Mike Baer): How to build identity, rhythms, and culture rooted in discipleship.

Day 2 – BUILD (Ken Gosnell): Systems and models that turn Kingdom values into daily habits and measurable results.

Day 3 – SCALE & LEGACY (Cary Summers): Leadership principles for creating generational impact that outlives you.

3. How to Use the Summit Playbook: The 3-page daily rhythm that turns inspiration into implementation.

4. Why the All-Access Lifetime Pass Fuels Discipleship: Your upgrade doesn’t just help you—it funds global entrepreneurs through IBAM.

5. How to Prepare Spiritually: A prayer of commissioning for every listener called to build what lasts.

• 00:00 Summit Overview
• 01:23 Vision & Calling
• 02:27 Day 1 Foundations
• 03:19 Day 2 Build
• 04:27 Day 3 Legacy
• 07:06 Access & Impact
• 08:10 Final Checklist
• 09:08 Closing Invitation

📘 Key Takeaways

1. You’re not gathering for content—you’re gathering for calling.
2. Faith-driven business isn’t a niche; it’s a discipleship strategy.
3. Writing down what God reveals during each session multiplies retention and transformation.
4. Your small action—whether $10 or an upgrade—can fund disciple-makers worldwide.
5. Expect to be encouraged, challenged, and commissioned for your next level of Kingdom impact.

🧭 Episode Scripture Anchors

Colossians 3:23 — “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”

Proverbs 11:10 — “When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices.”

Psalm 78:4 — “We will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord.”

James 1:22 — “Be doers of the Word, not hearers only.”

Psalm 127:1 — “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.”

“We’re not gathering for content—we’re gathering for calling.”

🚀 Join the Movement

🎯 Register free: ibam.org/summit

What if your org chart is also your discipleship map?

In this episode, we unpack a bold new framework that’s transforming how Christian entrepreneurs lead: business as discipleship. Discover how to design a company that forms people, not just profit—anchored in real stories from entrepreneurs across Africa, Central Asia, and beyond.

Host Steve Adams shares the four-part “Kingdom Operating System” every faith-driven leader needs to build businesses that multiply both income and impact.

• 00:00 Business As Discipleship
• 05:24 Real World Stories
• 09:27 Making It Practical
• 11:35 Measuring Impact
• 13:18 Summit Invitation
• 14:16 Final Challenge

🙌 Next Steps for Listeners

1. Register free for the Kingdom Impact Summit (Nov 4–6).

You’ll hear from 35+ global leaders redefining what ministry looks like from Monday to Saturday.

2. Invite your pastor or business peers—it’s a movement for givers, builders, and churches alike.

3. Start small: Choose one way to make your business a discipleship tool this week.

🌍 Kingdom Impact Summit — Nov 4–6 (Free Registration)

📖 The Kingdom Impact Playbook — free with registration

💼 Learn more about IBAM’s Business-as-Mission movement at ibam.org

What if your business could make disciples?

In this week’s pre-launch episode, Steve Adams invites you to reimagine your work as worship—and your business as a disciple-making movement.

Through real stories from IBAM entrepreneurs around the world, we’ll see what happens when believers build businesses that form people, not just profit. You’ll discover how calling, culture, and systems can turn your company into a Kingdom training ground—where leadership development, generosity, and Gospel impact flow through daily operations.

💡 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

1️⃣ The Kingdom Framework: “Calling → Build → Fruit”

How to discern what God has placed in your hand

What it means to build for discipleship, not just delivery

How to measure spiritual, economic, and social outcomes—your Kingdom ROI

2️⃣ The Culture Flywheel That Forms People

Surya’s story from Indonesia shows how a simple rhythm—Hire → Coach → Measure → Celebrate → Correct → Multiply—can disciple people through ordinary work.

3️⃣ Aziza’s Five-Branch Faith Story

From coffee and flowers to five thriving branches across Central Asia, Aziza’s journey proves that small beginnings can multiply beyond what you imagine.

4️⃣ Why “Business-as-Mission” Works Globally

Across Africa and Asia, Kingdom entrepreneurs are transforming cities through enterprise—seeking the shalom of their communities and discipling through integrity and excellence.

5️⃣ The Big Three Summit Themes:

Day 1: Foundations – Identity, culture, and rhythms with Mike Baer

Day 2: Build – Systems, marketing, and leadership with Ken Gosnell

Day 3: Scale & Legacy – Kingdom longevity with Cary Summers

6️⃣ Common Objections Answered:

“I’m too busy.” → Each day’s sessions are available for 24 hours.

“I’m not a CEO.” → The Summit includes tracks for pastors, givers, and entrepreneurs at every level.

“Isn’t mixing faith and business risky?” → It’s not about using people—it’s about serving people through business.

• 00:00 Kingdom Impact
• 02:04 Aziza's Story
• 05:03 Kingdom Culture
• 06:44 Africa Ecosystems
• 08:10 Scaling Legacy
• 11:29 Closing Actions

This episode challenges the false divide between faith and work. You’ll walk away seeing your calling, your company, and even your spreadsheets as sacred spaces where Jesus can be known and multiplied.

“Work is worship—and work is witness when it’s designed that way.”

🎧 Listen, Learn, and Register

The Kingdom Impact Summit (Nov 4–6, 2025) is your roadmap to building businesses that make disciples.

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✅ Summit Playbook (eBook) on registration

✅ Lifetime Access Upgrade available

👉 Register Free: ibam.org/summit

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