Recently I heard Wendy Simpson speak at a Christian Business Network meeting in Brisbane.

Wendy is high profile Christian business woman and she shared about how she walks out her faith in the marketplace and how she has a passion to see young Christian women and men make their mark in the same arena.

Also Wendy shares an amazing testimony of a city district called Taranaki within Manila in the Philippines which is being radically transformed by Christian leaders working with others in their community.

I am sure you will enjoy and be challenged by Wendy’s message.

In this article Mal Fletcher from Next Wave International comments on the rapidly changing nature of our society and how leaders with awareness of the times can build communities that can change their environment.

Here is an excerpt:

“Leaders can reshape the future of entire communities and cities, by creating positive, proactive cultures within their spheres of influence.

In fact, this is the core of the leadership call: to move organisations – and through them entire communities – forward in a positive direction. The major role of leadership is to equip people to shape the future proactively – for themselves and for the world.

If the next decade, with its fast moving technological advances and natural and ethical challenges, is to see the world become a better place for most, if not all, of its inhabitants, leaders of all stripes will need to take that role seriously and engage the future with hope and courage.

If its leaders think and act in the right way, the church has the opportunity to become a landmark for communities in constant change. We have the opportunity – indeed, the responsibility – to develop strategies that will move entire communities forward in a positive and godly direction. By building strategic, future-engaging cultures of hope in our churches, we can shape the direction of communities and entire cities.
Read the full article

We are excited to see things developing for our next Business as Mission (BAM) course in February 2012.

• Progress is being made in the development of our Cert IV in Frontline Management course. This will mean that employers can receive government funding to train their staff in a Kingdom perpective on business and to learn first hand from Christian business leaders how to run a successful business. For others there is the opportunity for Aus Study support to do the same training.
• We have had interest in our course from various cities around Australia and also from Africa, Fiji and the Solomon Islands
• Dates: Feb 23-29 2012