After more than 25 years of working with Chinese missionaries to launch businesses in closed countries we are finally releasing a book sharing inside information from the ground detailing how Chinese missionaries have been using business to support end-time missions.
Warning: This book offers no shortcuts, no life-hacks, and no get-rich-quick schemes. This book is only for those who desperately want to use business to complete the Great Commission and usher in the return of Christ. Everything recommended in this book will require hard work, sacrifice, and sweat equity. It is not a regurgitated presentation of ideas or theories or a retelling of one single success story, but is a collection of principles learned from many successes and failures on the mission field.
Our new book MISSIONARY INC.: THE 9 CONTRARIAN PRINCIPLES TO START A BUSINESS, MAKE MONEY AND COMPLETE THE GREAT COMMISSION shares from decades of experience with the underground house church and the special insights that they offer when it comes to starting a business in Asia, Africa, or the Middle East. These 9 Contrarian Principles are essential underground house church methods of starting businesses on the mission field and are both biblical and timeless. These 9 Contrarian Principles have been proven in almost every situation and provide a simple time-tested foundation that will help you understand how you can use business to break into closed markets, make money, expand your customer base, and help complete the Great Commission.
What makes this book unique is that it is not written on the basis of theory, but on experience that cannot be learned in modern classrooms. When planning to do business in a closed nation like North Korea, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc, it’s an ever-changing spiritual battlefield that unbelievers in academia simply do not understand. No secular business plan or money-making business conference guru can guarantee a successful business in restricted-access nations. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant, dishonest, or both.
The bottom line is that the markets in China, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Somalia are simply too wild to play by the same set of rules as everyone else. This new book will help you understand how to start a business in a closed country, how to sustain it, how to make it profitable, and most importantly, how to use it to help complete the Great Commission.
You do not have to be rich, well-traveled, or even have prior business experience to start a business if you correctly use these 9 Contrarian Principles. In fact, prior experience can actually work against you in understanding the concepts shared in this book.
We have worked with Chinese missionaries to start hotels, travel agencies, electronic stores, clothing boutiques, trucking companies, convenient stores, restaurants, hospitals, dental clinics, trade skills training centers, social media companies, business farms, jewelry stores, grocery stores, tea shops, wine distribution companies, alternative energy production companies, construction companies, recording studios, product distribution companies, massage parlors, language schools, product design companies, and a publishing house, all using these 9 simple foundational Contrarian Principles.
These Principles have been used to start 50 businesses in more than 15 restricted-access nations. Some of those businesses have done really well, and some have been complete failures. Several businesses have made a lot of money, and some of them have lost a lot of money, and along the way, this book shares how to tell the difference between the two environments.
To show how simple it is, not only does this book share ideas, testimonies, and the 9 Contrarian Principles, but it goes one step further by deploying these principles in the real world and track the progress as the book is written! The reader can follow along with the real-life impact of these Principles as we launch a marketing firm from the ground up in the Middle East. As the book was being written, a simple journal was used at the same time to track the progress of a brand new company so that the reader can follow the entire process.
If this sounds intimidating, do not worry – it isn’t! The book is written in a way for every reader to easily understand and is available October 1. You can find the ebook on Back to Jerusalem and the paperback is only available on Amazon.
