Business As Mission From Impoverished to Impowered

Tom Steffen (DMiss, Biola University) is a professor emeritus of intercultural studies at Biola University. He specializes in church multiplication, orality, honor-shame, and business as mission. He and his family spent fifteen years in the Philippines with New Tribes Mission before coming to Biola. Tom's books include Reconnecting God's Story to Ministry: Great Commission Companies (with Steve Rundle) and Worldview-based Storytelling: The Integration of Storytelling, Ritual, and Symbol in the Orality Movement. Mike Barnett (1953-2015) served for eleven years at Columbia (S.C.) International University, where he was professor of intercultural and historical studies and the dean of the College of Intercultural Studies. He was also the national vice president of publications for the Evangelical Missiological Society worked with the International Mission Board, as a pioneer in mission strategy whose drive played a key role in developing IMB initiatives in creative access and marketplace missions. Barnett also was a founding board member of Baptist Global Response, a Southern Baptist humanitarian organization, and filled an important role in developing the Consortium for Global Education partnership.