Nathan Frederick
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My Lunch with John
I had lunch last week with my friend John. He’s retired now—sixty years old, calm-eyed, cheerful, unhurried. Retirement at sixty, after several decades at his company, wasn’t exactly his idea, if you know what I mean, bu...
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Lessons from B4T Business and Least Reached People Groups
You can prepare carefully to start a B4T business and still find yourself dealing with something you never thought to prepare for. You’ve researched the market, worked through the numbers, and prayed about the decision. ...
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A Morning Adventure in Fareed Nagar: Milk, Bread, and a Bull
Fareed Nagar was just waking up, its residents shuffling about in wrinkled clothes, rubbing sleep from their eyes as they sent their wild-haired children on breakfast errands. The tiny grocery kiosks were buzzing with pe...
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Cultural Adaptation: How to Do Business in an Unfamiliar Context
The Challenge of Doing Business in a Least Reached Culture
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Legal and Political Barriers: Navigating Restrictions Wisely
Business can open doors in places where traditional ministry has little access. But getting through the door and actually operating a business are two different things. There are registrations, licenses, taxes, employmen...
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Real-Life B4T Stories: Entrepreneurs Transforming Communities
When we opened our English institute in India, people came because they wanted to learn English. They hoped it would help them get a job, continue their education, or feel more confident speaking with others. We had a re...
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Sustainable Impact: Why Jobs are Better Than Short-Term Aid
When we see people struggling, we want to help. We send food, clothing, medical supplies, and money. Sometimes that is exactly what’s needed. If someone’s house has washed away in a flood, he needs a place to sleep tonig...
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Trust Through Trade – Why Businesses Open Doors
If you want to live among the least reached, one of the questions you’ll have to answer is, “Why are you here?” It’s a reasonable question. I’d probably ask it myself if someone moved halfway around the world to settle i...
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The Economic Barrier: How Poverty Isolates People from the Gospel
When we talk about reaching the least reached, we usually think about language, culture, geography, and government restrictions. Those are real challenges. But poverty can affect our access to people, too, and I don’t th...
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Why "Faking It" Undermines Sharing the Gospel
If you tell people you’ve come to their country to start a business, I think you ought to start a business. That seems fairly obvious, but apparently it needs to be said.
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Avoiding Mission Drift: Focusing on Both Purpose and Profit
A business can be doing well financially and still drift away from what you intended it to accomplish. You get busy, customers need attention, and a new opportunity looks promising. Before long, you’re spending most of y...
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Cultural Sensitivity and Faith: Sharing Christ Authentically
Here we go again with the listening principle. I keep returning to it because I think we underestimate how much we need to learn before we have something useful to say.
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Listening Before Leading in Establishing a B4T Business
When you arrive in another culture, it’s tempting to get busy. You’ve prepared, raised money, moved your family, and told people back home what you hope to accomplish. Now you want to do something.
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Skin in the Game
In Judges chapter four, there’s an interesting story about a man named Barak—not Obama—and a prophetess named Deborah. Israel was being oppressed, again, this time by Jabin, the king of Canaan. Deborah summoned Barak and...
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Pillar Four: Sharing Jesus Again
“I smell smoke.”
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Pillar Three: Empty, Fake Businesses
“Oh, so you’re a faker.”
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Pillar Three: Making Money
“Please, sir, let me take some free classes. When I get a job, I will pay you.”
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Pillar Two: Meeting The Need
We’re working through four pillars of B4T. The first was finding a need your customers are already aware of. Now we’re moving to the second: finding a better way to meet that need.
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Four Pillars of B4T: Pillar One Continued
We’re discussing the Four Pillars of B4T, and we’re still on the first: finding a need your potential customers are already aware of.
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Four Pillars of B4T: Pillar One
There are four pillars I’ve come to follow in my own B4T businesses and in my mentoring. In this series of posts, based on my book A Different Kind of Green, I’ll spend some time on each one.