GE-445 Entrepreneurship

Most church members, and many pastors, earn their living through small enterprise. Learn to start and run one well, and to guide your church in work, money and business.

With the WWES companion Tents and Talents beside the OpenStax textbook, this course teaches how new enterprises begin: noticing a need, gathering resources, taking a risk and creating value for others. It moves from calling and opportunity, through customers and capital, to business models, teams, legal structures and wealth. Two threads run through it all: business as mission, and bivocational ministry (serving your church while you earn from a trade).

What you will study

• Work, enterprise and the call to create
• Tentmakers: bivocational ministry and business as mission
• Ethics, bribery and integrity in enterprise
• Creativity, innovation and seeing opportunity
• Serving customers and telling true stories
• Money, debt and savings, risk and failure
• Business models, teams and legal forms, including church livelihood projects
• Wealth, generosity and finishing well

Course materials

• Entrepreneurship, an OpenStax textbook
• Tents and Talents, a WWES companion