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Is there really a move of God in the workplace today? Is adversity a sign of blessing or curse from God? How do you know when God is blessing your work? How can you make decisions God will bless in your workplace calling? The Called to the Workplace workshop, taught by Os and Angie Hillman, is now available as a 5-CD audio set. Each professionally recorded CD is the same material covered in the live one-day workshop. You will discover the answer to these and many more questions in the Called to the Workplace audio teaching series. If Christian’s make up 40% of the work force, why aren’t we having more impact? A 62-page workbook is included that features the diagrams, scriptures references, fill-in-the-blanks, and much of the teaching presented in the workshop. Workplace Leaders and Pastors came from 37 cities and six nations to Atlanta to share how the Church in the workplace is impacting the culture, and how local churches are now beginning to understand what it means to equip believers for their God-ordained calling in the workplace. Audio recordings are now available of every session. Dr. Peter Wagner, well-known church growth expert and professor for 25 years at Fuller Theological Seminary has just released this new book. In it, he draws a distinction between what he calls the Nuclear Church (which meets together corporately for worship, Bible teaching, and other congregational activities) and the Extended Church, which exists out in the workplace the other six days of the week. Wagner believes this understanding of the Extended Church is "the most significant paradigm shift since the Reformation." And he is convinced the release of God's power by the Church in the workplace must be understood and embraced by pastors and church staff as well as workplace believers. If you feel a disconnect between your workweek and your church involvement, or if you desire to see God move through His people in such a way that we see the literal transformation of our society for His glory, then 'The Church In The Workplace' will greatly encourage and inspire you. Author Os Hillman says this is "...a much needed book that identifies where the Church is and what changes are needed if we are to experience real societal transformation. This book is a must-read for every pastor and workplace leader." Worry and anxiety over money; money mismanagement; consistent financial lack; “I can’t afford it” mentality; impulse buying; stinginess; desiring more of what you have; desiring what you don’t have; discontentment; bondage to debt; exaggerated emphasis on money and an overemphasis on its true power. If any of these describe you, this needs to be the next book you read! Wealth, Riches, and Money is a deeply insightful journey through the scripture, including an analysis of the spiritual dynamics taking place in the unseen realm. The authors explore the stark contrast between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness as it relates to finances. Great stories, clear Bible teaching, and honest personal testimony make this book accessible to everybody. It can be used as a means to teach children about money, but it would serve just as well the needs of a financial seminar for executives or the leadership team of a church.
copyright 2005, ICWM, Permission granted to reproduce this page with following credit: Source: Os Hillman, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries, www.icwm.net The Movement “5 years ago - only one conference on spirituality and the workplace; now there are hundreds.” - 1999 Business Week magazine 10,000 Bible and prayer groups in workplaces that meet regularly” – 1999 Business Week. 79 Books Published on Faith & Work in Year 2000, “12 Books A Month Published in 2002“ - Pete Hammond, Intervarsity Press “… a mostly unorganized mass of believers--a counterculture bubbling up all over corporate America--who want to bridge the traditional divide between spirituality and work. Historically, such folk operated below the radar, on their own or in small workplace groups where they prayed or studied the Bible. But now they are getting organized and going public to agitate for change.” Fortune Magazine, July 16, 2001 "People who want to mix God and business are rebels on several fronts. They reject the centuries-old American conviction that spirituality is a private matter. They challenge religious thinkers who disdain business as an inherently impure pursuit. They disagree with business people who say that religion is unavoidably divisive. (Ventures Side Bar: Religions ARE devisive, Christianity is NOT, it is a way of LIFE, JESUS, said: "I AM the Way and the Truth, and the LIFE" , WITHOUT the religions which are not only divisive, but legalistic [based on how many hoops you have to jump through,the Christian's only requirement is BELIEF!], which is ALL anti-Christian theology) Fortune Magazine, July 16, 2001 “Today, a spiritual revival is sweeping across Corporate America (Ventures Side Bar: Praise the Lord, reports are coming in that over 10,000 people a DAY, every 24 hours folks, that people in China are coming to Christ. Source: KLOVE 90.5 radio station) as people of all stripes are mixing mysticism into their management, importing into office corridors the lessons usually dolled out in churches, temples, and mosques. Gone is the old taboo against talking about God at work. – Business Week Magazine, November 1999 “Ten years ago we could identity only 25 national or international workplace ministries; today we can identify more than 900.” Mike McLoughlin, YWAM Marketplace Mission Biblical Precedent New Testament – ...Of Jesus’ 132 public appearances in NT, 122 were in the marketplace. ...Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. ...Of 40 divine interventions recorded in Acts, 39 were in the marketplace. Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace. Jesus called 12 workplace individuals, not clergy, to build His church. Work is Worship - The Hebrew word "Avodah" is root for word from which we get the words work and worship. Work in its different forms is mentioned more than 800 times in the Bible, more than all the words used to express worship, music, praise, and singing combined. “54% of Jesus’ reported teaching ministry arose out of issues posed by others” in the scope of daily life experience. – Lewis and Lewis, LICC Quotes on Work and Faith “The spiritual manifests itself in a life which knows no division into sacred and secular.” Oswald Chambers "Spirituality in the workplace is exploding." Laura Nash, Business Ethicist, Harvard University His doing nothing wonderful (his first 30 years) is in itself a kind of wonder." Saint Bonaventure. “God is marshaling his people in the workplace as never before in history. God is up to something. The next spiritual awakening could take place in the marketplace." –Henry Blackaby "Workplace believers seldom feel served by their churches in their jobs and careers on issues of faith and biblical ethics." -Pete Hammond, Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship “We are convinced that England will never be converted until the laity use the opportunities daily afforded by their various professions, crafts and occupations.” – Towards the Conversion of England, 1945 "There is a distinction between church work and the work of the church. Church work is what you do for the organized institution of the church. The work of the church is what is done between Sundays when the church is scattered all over the metropolitan area where it is located - in homes, schools, offices, on construction jobs, in market places." - Dick Halverson "It is an error to think that those who flee worldly affairs and engage in contemplation are leading an angelic life...We know that men were created to busy themselves with labor and that no sacrifice is more pleasing to God than when each one attends to his calling and studies well to live for the common good." -- John Calvin "In nothing has the church so lost Her hold on reality as in Her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a result, the secular work of the world is turned to purely selfish and destructive ends, and that the greater part of the world's intelligent workers have become irreligious, or at least, uninterested in religion. But is it astonishing? How can anyone remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of life? The church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confirmed to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes on him is to make good tables." -- Dorothy sayers “Workplace ministry will be one of the core future innovations in church ministry.” George Barna, Boiling Point, Regal Publishing "If Christ is not Lord of my work, He will never be Lord of my family." Doug Sherman, author, Your Work Matters to God. "We have more Christians today per capita with less impact on the culture than ever before. We are big and we are weak." - Land Cope, YWAM "We reviewed 52 movements in the body of Christ. We narrowed it down to 28, then 12, then 4 to invest our resources in the coming years. The workplace is one of those because this is an area where we see God working." Chad Hammond, Director, New Ventures (division of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc.) "Our surveys reveal that 90-97% of Christians have never heard a sermon relating biblical principles to their work life." Doug Sherman, author, Your Work Matters to God. San Francisco radio station survey revealed an 80% dissatisfaction rate for a person's work. Wall Street Journal survey reveal 50% dissatisfaction rate among executives and 80% dissatisfaction rate among general workplace population. 500 surveys among Christians reveal 50% dissatisfaction rate. “Societal transformation is high on God’s agenda and the chief catalytic force to bring it about will be Christians ministering in the marketplace.” C. Peter Wagner, Chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute “The church in the workplace is the purest form of the body of Christ today due to its diversity. Workplace believers are less prone to denominational differences because they have a common goal of representing Christ in their workplaces. The movement will break down denominational barriers that have been held in the past.” Os Hillman, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries" “The most common self-inflicted put-down is ‘I am not a pastor—I am just a layperson.’ This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.” Ed Silvoso, Anointed for Business, Harvest Evangelism “Indeed, as with first-century Christianity, it all begins in the marketplace, where the disciples of Jesus daily rub shoulders with the lost.” – Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers, Anointed for Business, Reqal Publishing “In today’s global community, the greatest channel ofdistribution for ‘salt and light’ is the business community… the marketplace.” Bill Pollard, Chairman, Service Master “There is truly is no division between sacred and secular except what we have created. And that is why the division of the legitimate roles and functions of human life into the sacred and secular does incalculable damage to our individual lives and the cause of Christ. Holy people must stop going into “church work” as their natural course of action and take up holy orders in farming, industry, law, education, banking, and journalism with the same zeal previously given to evangelism or to pastoral and missionary work.” Dallas Willard, The Spirit of Discipline, pg 214 “Someone recently said that the “First” Reformation took the Word of God to the common man and woman; the “Second” Reformation is taking the work of God to the common man and woman. That time is now. The greatest potential ministry in the world today is the marketplace. Christ’s greatest labor force is those men and women already in that environment.” Tom Phillips, VP of Training , Billy Graham Evangelistic Association “Much of our culture has a distinctly Greek view of work: We work out of necessity. But, you see, we are made in the image of God, and as such we are made to work—to create, to shape, to bring order out of disorder.” Chuck Colson, Break Point, Sept 1, 2003 “The workplace is where a majority of a church congregation, spends a majority of their time, interacting with a majority of the unchurched world. The Church on Monday is evidence that the Church on Sunday is real!” Doug Spada, His Church at Work.org "The last 12 to 24 months I have personally noticed a surge of interest. I see an openness from pastors that is very new that I have not seen before. I see a Kingdom mentality. I promise you we are within months of a major move of God." Kent Humprheys, President,Fellowship of Companies for Christ. "I believe pastors will be the last to really embrace this movement because it is such a new paradigm. However, ultimately, they will be the instruments God will use to make the greatest impact in the movement because of their influence in so many people's lives." Os Hiillman, Director, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries
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HOW TO START A PROFITABLE HOME-BASED BUSINESS In these days, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet with just one source of income. Thus, more and more people are investigating the possibilities of starting their own extra-income business. Most of these part-time endeavors are started and operated from the comfort and privacy of the home. Most of these people are making the extra money they need. Some have wisely and carefully built these extra income efforts into full-time, very profitable businesses. Others are just keeping busy, having fun, and enjoying life as never before. The important thing is that they are doing something other than waiting for the government to give them a handout; they are improving their lot in life, and you can do it, too! The fields of mail order selling, multi-level marketing, and in-home party sales have never been more popular. If any of these kinds of extra income producing ideas appeal to you, then you owe it to yourself to check them out. But these aren't the only fields of endeavor you can start and operate from home, with little or no investment, and learn as you go. If you type, you can start a home-based typing service; if you have a truck or have access to a trailer, you can start a clean-up/hauling service. Simply collecting old news papers from your neighbors can get you started in the paper recycling business. More than a few enterprising housewives have found success and fortune by starting home and/or apartment cleaning services. If you have a yard full of flowers, you can make good extra money by supplying fresh cut flowers to restaurants and offices in your area on a regular basis. You might turn a ceramics hobby into a lucrative personalized coffee mug business. What I'm saying is that in reality, there's literally no end to the ways you canstart and operate a profitable extra income business from your home. The first thing you must do, however, is some basic market research. Find out for yourself, first-hand, just how many people there are in your area who are interested in your proposed product or service, and would be "willing to stand in line and pay money for it." This is known as defining your market and pinpointing your customers. If after checking around, talking about your idea with a whole lot of people over a period of one to three months, you get the idea that these people would be paying customers, your next effort should be directed toward the "detailing" of your business plan. The more precise and detailed your plan - covering all the bases relating to how you'll do everything that needs to be done - the easier it's going to be for you to attain success. Such a plan should show your start-up investment needs, your advertising plan, your production costs and procedures, your sales program, and how your time will be allocated. Too often, enthusiastic and ambitious entrepreneurs jump in on an extra income project and suddenly find that the costs are beyond their abilities, and the time requirements more than they can meet. It pays to lay it all out on paper before you get involved, and the clearer you can "see" everything before you start, the better your chances for success. Now, assuming you've got your market targeted, you know who your customers are going to be and how you're going to reach them with your product or service. And you have all your costs as well as time requirements itemized. The next step is to set your plan in motion and start making money. Here is the most important "secret" of all, relating to starting and building a profitable home-based business, so read very carefully. Regardless of what kind of business you start, you must have the capital and the available time to sustain your business through the first six months of operation. Specifically, you must not count on receiving or spending any money coming in from your business on yourself or for your bills during those first six months. All the income from your business during those first six months should be reinvested in your business in order for it to grow and reach our planned first year potential. Once you've passed that first six months milestone, you can set up a small monthly salary for yourself, and begin enjoying the fruits of your labor. But the first six months or operation for any business are critical, so do not plan to use any of the money your business generates for yourself during that period. If you've got your business plan properly organized, and have implemented the plan, you should at the end of your first year be able to begin thinking about hiring other people to alleviate some of your work-load. Remember this: Starting a successful business is not a means towards either a job for yourself or a way to keep busy. It should be regarded as the beginning of an enterprise that will grow and prosper, with you as the top dog. Eventually, you'll have other people doing all the work for you, even running the entire operation, while you vacation in the Bahamas or Hawaii and collect or receive regular income from your initial efforts. For more details on market research, business planning, advertising, selling, order fulfillment, and other aspects of home-based businesses, clickon the umbrella lady...
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 UPDATES HERE This year's theme is Reclaiming the 7 Mountains of Culture. Participants from 21 nations and 30 states are already registered. For details on the conference click link below. We are extremely pleased to announce that we have just finalized details for the general sessions of the 2008 Church in The Workplace Conference to be broadcast LIVE over the Internet. Broadcast of the conference was sent via internet. And even if your schedule doesn't allow you to watch the live web cast sessions, registering for the web cast will give you access to watch re-broadcasts of each of the general sessions up to two times online. The theme of this year's conference is "Reclaiming the 7 Key Mountains of Cultural Influence" and will feature presentations from Os Hillman, Dr. Lance Wallnau, and other "hands-on"leaders in each of the 7 key mountains of arts/entertainment, business, education, family, government, media, and religion. To learn more about the live web cast and each of the general sessions of the conference, go to-- http://msg1svc.net/cccka/99513/70/2823/95266/0/H/oeam.html
Living for a Greater Cause TGIF Today God Is First by Os Hillman 07-02-2008 "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13 What does it mean for workplace believers to live for a cause greater than themselves in our day and time? Jeremiah Lanphier was a businessman in New York City who asked God to do this in his life in 1857. In a small, darkened room, in the back of one of New York City'slesser churches, a man prayed alone. His request of God was simple, but earth-shattering: "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" [John Woodbridge, ed., More Than Conquerors (Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1992), 337] He was a man approaching midlife without a wife or family, but he had financial means. He made a decision to reject the "success syndrome" that drove the city's businessmen and bankers. God used this businessman to turn New York City's commercial empire on its head. He began a businesmen's prayer meeting on September 23, 1857. The meetings began slowly, but within a few months 20 noonday meetings were convening daily throughout the city. The New York Tribune and the New York Herald issued articles of revival. It had become the city's biggest news. Now a full-fledged revival, it moved outside New York. By spring of 1858, 2,000 met daily in Chicago's Metropolitan Theater, and in Philadelphia the meetings mushroomed into a four-month long tent meeting. Meetings were held in Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, New Orleans, and Mobile. Thousands met to pray because one man stepped out. Annus Mirabilis, the year of national revival, had begun. This was an extraordinary move of God through one man. It was unique because the movement was lead by businessmen, a group long considered the least prone to any form of evangelical fervor, and it had started on Wall Street, the most unlikely of all places to begin. Could God do something extraordinary through you? Take a step. Ask God to do mighty things through you. ..................................................................................................................................................
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