IBAM- International Business As Mission Biblical Entrepreneurship

Your Final Act of Worship for 2025

As the year comes to a close, most people rush toward resolutions, goals, and plans for what’s next.

But what if the most important decision you make isn’t about 2026 at all?

In this powerful year-end episode, we pause long enough to ask a deeper question:

What will be your final act of worship for 2025?

This isn’t a conversation about guilt, pressure, or obligation.

It’s about alignment—between your faith, your generosity, and your calling as a steward of what God has entrusted to you.

Because worship isn’t limited to songs or Sundays.

It’s expressed through priorities, obedience, and what we choose to place in God’s hands.

✨ In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

1. Why year-end generosity is spiritually different than giving at any other time of the year
2. How the way you finish a year often reveals what you truly trust
3. Why delayed obedience quietly costs more than generosity ever will
4. The Kingdom truth behind small, consistent gifts—and why God multiplies faith, not amounts
5. How business, when surrendered, becomes a powerful engine for discipleship
6. The real reason your generosity may be someone else’s answered prayer

This episode is a moment of reflection—and a call to commitment—for faith-driven leaders, entrepreneurs, and givers who want their lives to echo into eternity.

• 00:00 Purpose & Mission
• 01:07 Final Act of Worship
• 02:31 Giving & Generosity
• 05:04 Sacred Business
• 07:19 Take Action
• 07:51 Concluding Insights

🎯 The Two Ways to Partner Before the Year Ends

As we close the year, there are two simple, meaningful ways to align your generosity with your faith:

🔹 $10/month Impact Membership

A step of consistent obedience that fuels:

Business training for entrepreneurs in underserved communities

Startup capital and micro-loans

Discipleship through business

Transparent impact updates, stories, and prayer points

🔹 $1,000 Kingdom Builder Gift

A decisive, tangible gift that helps launch or scale a business, creating:

Sustainable income

Job creation

Dignity for families

Ongoing Gospel impact through everyday work

Different amounts.

Same heart posture.

Same eternal purpose.

💬 A Question to Reflect On

Before the calendar turns, ask yourself:

What will God say I did with what He placed in my hands this year?

Not what you intended to do.

Not what you planned to do later.

But what you chose to steward in obedience.

👉 Take Action Today

This is your invitation to finish the year aligned.

👉 Make your year-end Kingdom gift now

👉 Become an Impact Member for $10/month

👉 Or give a $1,000 Kingdom Builder Gift

Transform a life before midnight.

Set the spiritual tone for the year ahead.

And step into obedience with peace and confidence.

🌍 About IBAM

IBAM (International Business as Mission) exists to empower, educate, and equip entrepreneurs around the world to break cycles of poverty and disciple nations through sustainable, faith-driven business.

We don’t fund handouts.

We build systems.

We disciple through work.

Because business isn’t separate from worship—it’s one of its most powerful expressions.

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

In this episode, we cast a bold, God-sized vision for 2026—one that moves beyond traditional charity and into Kingdom multiplication. This isn’t about maintaining programs. It’s about building a global movement where business disciples nations, churches become launchpads, and generosity creates lasting freedom.

As we enter the Christmas season, we reflect on a powerful truth:

Jesus came to restore—and now we partner with Him to build.

This episode will challenge how you see giving, business, and your role in God’s global mission.

🔑 What You’ll Hear in This Episode

1. Why IBAM is not just a nonprofit, but a growing Kingdom movement

2. The 2026 Vision and what God is calling us to build—together

3. Why economic uncertainty demands sustainable, biblical solutions

4. How entrepreneurship is becoming one of the Church’s most powerful mission tools

5. The spiritual significance of multiplication over charity

6. Why this vision doesn’t belong to IBAM—it belongs to you

7. How Christmas reminds us that God changes the world through faithful seeds

8. Why this moment—before 2026 begins—matters more than ever

• 00:00 Faith Driven Business
• 01:02 Vision For 2026
• 03:12 Movement Milestones
• 05:20 Why Now
• 06:12 Spiritual Stewardship
• 07:23 Christmas Parallel
• 08:31 Join The Mission
• 09:36 Conclusion

🌍 The 2026 Vision at a Glance

By the end of 2026, we are believing God for:

1. 250,000 donors committed to consistent, faith-filled generosity
2. 10,000 new entrepreneurs launched through biblical business training
3. 10,000 new disciples made through business-as-mission
4. Expansion into new global regions where sustainable solutions are urgently needed
5. Church partnerships equipped to move from charity to multiplication
6. New tools for discipleship and business training that scale across cultures

This is not about numbers for numbers’ sake.

These are lives, families, churches, and nations transformed.

Jesus never multiplied scarcity—He multiplied what was surrendered.

That’s the model we’re building.

🎄 Why This Episode Matters Right Now

Christmas reminds us that God didn’t send a finished solution.

He sent a seed.

Small. Faithful. Obedient.

👉 Become a Kingdom Builder - https://www.ibam.org/

Your generosity helps launch entrepreneurs, create jobs, and disciple nations before 2026 begins.

You’re not funding a vision.

You’re building it.

In this emotional, heart-gripping episode, we take you behind the statistics and into the real stories of the entrepreneurs your generosity empowers.

You’ll meet Aziza, a young woman from Kazakhstan whose business journey began with nothing more than a tiny apartment, a few bags of coffee beans, flower bouquets—and a dream that God could use her life for something bigger.

Through IBAM’s biblical training, discipleship, and startup investment, Aziza didn’t just build a business — she discipled young missionaries, opened branches across Central Asia, and sparked a movement of faith-driven entrepreneurship.

And she is not alone.

You’ll also hear the impact of real IBAM entrepreneurs like Patience, Mapheso, Joseph, Fegas, and Elijah, whose testimonies reveal what God is doing across Africa and Asia through the IBAM movement.

This isn’t charity.

This is multiplication.

This is discipleship.

This is legacy-level impact—and you’re at the center of it.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

• The truth behind Aziza’s five-nation entrepreneurial breakthrough

• Why IBAM focuses on “people, not numbers”

• The ripple effect of training + discipleship

• What donors never see—but desperately need to know

• The top belief barriers that stop Christians from giving or leading boldly

• How small gifts become global impact

• 00:00 Faithful Beginnings
• 03:19 Scaling Impact
• 06:01 Generosity's Effect
• 08:10 Looking Ahead
• 09:22 Final Invitation

🌍 Featured Testimonies

Aziza — Kazakhstan

From coffee and flowers to five branches—and a team of young missionaries discipled through business.

Patience — Africa

IBAM training helped her grow personally, budget better, and expand her business.

Mapheso — Africa

She learned discipline, accountability, and how to share her faith through her business.

Fegas — Africa

A master trainer using business to strengthen disciple-making across Africa.

Elijah — Zambia

A chicken business becoming a voice of hope to children and families.

🪙 Want to Be Part of Stories Like These?

You can help launch the next entrepreneur before Christmas.

For just $10/month, you become an Impact Member, joining a global movement that:

✔️ Funds startup loans

✔️ Trains biblical entrepreneurs

✔️ Supports discipleship in unreached communities

✔️ Creates jobs, dignity, and Gospel movement

👉 Become an Impact Member today at www.IBAM.org

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

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