IBAM- International Business As Mission Biblical Entrepreneurship

🎧 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/Mwz0Q1D3Rdg 🌍 Join the mission: www.ibam.org What happens when God calls you into business—and the journey includes struggle, delay, and suffering? In this episode, IBAM founder Steve Adams shares a deeply personal reflection on more than 40 years of faith, entrepreneurship, failure, and obedience. Rather than offering formulas or quick wins, Steve walk...

Support biblical entrepreneurship worldwide — donate here: www.ibam.org Your giving equips indigenous believers to build real businesses that become platforms for discipleship and community transformation. Explore the sacred-secular divide in faith, work, and purpose. Learn how your career connects to God’s plan with insights from Steve Adams and IBAM. 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Sacred-Secular Divid...

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 obligat...

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...

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 t...

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, strengtheni...

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 thr...

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 dis...

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...

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...

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-miss...

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 g...

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...

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”...

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 yo...

Have you ever felt like you’re living two lives—faithful believer on Sunday, business leader on Monday? You’re not alone. Many Christian entrepreneurs, donors, and pastors wrestle with the tension of integrating faith and work. But here’s the truth: you were never meant to split your life in two. In this episode, we explore how business and ministry are not enemies but partners in God’s Kingdom. Y...

What if the $10 in your wallet right now could multiply into businesses, discipleship, and transformed communities around the world? In this episode, we challenge the belief that “small gifts don’t matter” and reveal the surprising Kingdom math of impact. Through inspiring stories from entrepreneurs like Patience in Africa, Mapesho in Zambia, Elijah’s chicken business, and Claire’s flower shops in...

Have you ever given to a charity and later wondered if it made any difference? You’re not alone. Many believers today feel the weight of charity fatigue—longing for their generosity to create real, lasting impact instead of short-term relief. In this episode, we unpack IBAM’s Three-Fish Model: a faith-driven approach that shifts giving from temporary handouts to multiplying disciple-makers. Rooted...

When you give to IBAM, you’re not just funding jobs—you’re multiplying disciples. In this episode, discover how small gifts create eternal impact, why business is one of the most powerful tools for discipleship, and how entrepreneurs around the world are turning shops, farms, and startups into mission fields. You thought you were helping someone earn a paycheck. But in God’s hands, you actually he...

For decades, we’ve believed that charity was the answer to poverty. But what if the very thing we’ve overlooked—business—is God’s tool to break cycles of poverty, restore dignity, and multiply discipleship? In this episode, we explore how business as mission creates lasting transformation in ways handouts never could. You’ll hear real stories from entrepreneurs across the globe—like Aziza in Kazak...

Why is loneliness the #1 struggle for Christian entrepreneurs? In this episode, we uncover the hidden isolation many leaders feel when trying to honor God in both business and ministry. From boardrooms that silence faith to churches that sideline business, too many believers are stuck between two worlds. But the truth is—you’re not alone, and your business is not just business. It’s Kingdom impact...

What happens when God calls you out of your comfort zone and into Kingdom entrepreneurship? In this episode of the Biblical Entrepreneur Podcast, Steve Adams sits down with Jeanette Peterson—a military veteran, homeschool mom, and business strategist—whose journey shows the power of surrender, systems, and faith. From struggling with infertility to leaving the military, Jeanette shares how God red...

What if your “small” was never meant to stay small? In today’s powerful episode, we dive deep into the truth behind Luke 16:10 and the myth that “faithful” means “invisible.” If you’re a Christian entrepreneur, donor, or mission-driven leader sensing God calling you to more—more responsibility, more impact, more discipleship through business—this episode is for you. We unpack how scaling isn’t sel...

In this eye-opening episode, we unpack the uncomfortable truth behind why so many faith-driven givers are walking away from traditional charities—not because they’ve lost heart, but because they’ve gained discernment. Steve takes us behind the scenes of what happens when giving models create dependency instead of dignity—and how IBAM is flipping the script by discipling nations through business, n...

If your church is faithfully preaching the Word and your people are faithfully giving… why does it still feel like your fundraising efforts are falling flat? In today’s episode, we’re tackling a bold but necessary question: Is your church’s fundraising model actually fueling discipleship—or just sustaining operations? You’ll discover why more and more donors are disengaging, why the next generatio...