At Ambassadors Impact Network we seek to fund entrepreneurs who demonstrate and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ across three areas of their business: (1) their codified values; (2) their business activities; and (3) their products and/or services. After reviewing nearly 400 requests for funding and investing $7.5 million across 20 different companies and funds, we began to see patterns emerge as to how God was working through these businesses. We also received requests from entrepreneurs for best practices and ideas on how to invite others to know Jesus through enterprise. So at the end of 2020 we asked each of our portfolio companies to answer the following questions:
How do you incorporate biblical truth into the values of your company?
What activities do you undertake, internally or externally, that enable you to demonstrate or proclaim the gospel?
In what ways does your product or service demonstrate or proclaim the gospel, make disciples, or otherwise expand the kingdom of God?
The following report is a compilation of the responses we received, lightly sanitized to protect the identity of the companies and entrepreneurs. Within each of the three areas noted above, we have further broken down the responses into eight topical categories to make them easier to digest and better enable you to find the practices that fit your context and passion. Our invitation is for you to explore and discern if God might be inviting you to implement some of these practices in your personal or professional life.