Introductory Post - Jason Benedict

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Introductory Post - Jason Benedict

Posted by Jason Benedict ⋅ June 18, 2008 ⋅

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I cut my teeth on missions in West Africa, where my wife and I were involved in leadership training and church planting. In 1994 while working in large urban slums in Abidjan we encountered unreached peoples from the African Sahel and began developing strategies to reach them. It was in this laboratory that we began tinkering with business as mission and church planting movement methodologies (not that CPM existed by that name). For the sake of timeline, this was just prior to GCOWE 95 and Bethany’s effort to publish prayer profiles. Subsequently, I began working with AIMS doing mobilization projects throughout West Africa and the Sahel. Over the next few years we had the pleasure of leading over 7000 African leaders through the process of people group adoption. Following this, we spent a season planting missionary teams among unreached peoples and developing a replicable, experiential model for training and deploying apostolic teams. Over the years I have had the pleasure of equipping leaders around the world, leading field teams, running mission organizations, starting businesses, and in general doing what I love: Developing innovative approaches to reach the nations with the Gospel of the Kingdom. I serve as a missionary with Calvary International and work as a strategist with the Regent Center for Entrepreneurship in Virginia Beach. I’ve written a book on business as mission titled Eden Inc., and I am looking forward to being a contributing editor with Momentum Magazine.