Real businesses funding real missionaries.
Equipping entrepreneurs with the infrastructure, knowledge, and tools to build profitable businesses designed from day one to sustain gospel presence in hard-to-reach places.
Business as a vehicle for gospel presence
In many parts of the world, traditional missionary models face increasing barriers — visa restrictions, cultural resistance, and unsustainable funding cycles. Business as Missions offers one of the few viable models for sustained, long-term gospel presence in these environments.
The premise is straightforward: real businesses, generating real revenue, operated by people whose primary calling is to bring the gospel where it's needed most. These aren't shell companies or fronts — they're legitimate enterprises that serve local economies while funding and enabling missionary work.
“Business as Missions is not about using business as a cover. It's about believing that honest work and faithful witness are the same calling — deployed in the hardest places.”
When the business is real, the presence is sustainable. Workers earn legitimate standing in their communities, create local jobs, contribute to economies, and build the relational trust that gospel work requires. The mission doesn't depend on external donations — it's funded by the work itself.
Capital access, financial structuring, and funding models designed for businesses operating in complex international environments. Built to sustain, not just start.
Access to a network of practitioners, operational playbooks, and hard-won lessons from those who've built businesses in restricted-access environments before.
Operational tools, planning frameworks, and technology infrastructure to help entrepreneurs move from vision to viable business — with professional rigor from day one.
Entrepreneurs with an eternal mission
This track is built for entrepreneurs and church planters who believe business is a legitimate and powerful vehicle for gospel work — particularly in regions where traditional missionary access is limited or impossible.
If you have professional skills, business acumen, and a conviction that your work can serve the Great Commission in the hardest places, BAM provides the infrastructure to make that sustainable.
We work with individuals and teams at various stages — from those discerning a call to marketplace ministry, to experienced operators ready to deploy in the field. What unites them is a shared conviction: profitable, honest business and faithful mission are not in tension.
If you're an entrepreneur exploring business as missions — or already operating in the field — we'd welcome a conversation about how Cherith can support your work.
All inquiries are treated with discretion.