Reformation Ministries International Corp

Business as Mission

At the moment, the accounting industry is our main source of tent making income and BAM activities. To simplify our conversation we will drop the term "tent making" and use only the business as mission or BAM terminology.

Through this vehicle, Hatfield & Company, Inc., we have been able to offer many years of ministry to others without charge. Like Paul, we do not refuse donations, as you all can tell from our work here with RMIC. However, we know from experience that the greatest untapped resources for God's work of the Kingdom lay not in donations, but in the concept of "Business as Mission." Thus, one of our priorities is to establish a core group of BAM partners who will work with us in the process of acquiring and building their own residual income and standard business income. It will take a little time for each household that joins with us, to realize the levels of residual income that will provide adequate amounts of both time and money, to pursue the greater goals of our several ministries. The standard business income will be realized through two different approaches. One approach is the core companies that Hatfield & Company, Inc. will establish in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico. The other approach is through the standard business model of your choice. Read more on this aspect…

Not all who become part of our BAM teams will necessarily work directly with us in the same ministry concerns or outlets. However, we know that some will be led to work directly with us and to be a part of the core leadership of all that God will do through RMIC in the future.

RMIC's Business as Mission Training Center

Currently RMIC has property in the Sacramento Mountains in south central New Mexico, USA, where we are making plans for a large missionary training center. This center will be comprised of several different but compatible operations. In addition to the daily need for shelter and sustenance there will be a complete curriculum of bible and character building studies. There will also be theory classes in many different vocational skills. More importantly there will also be real on the job work and training to put the class room work into practice. These jobs will be managed by our own independent companies that will work in conjunction with the training center. The mountain community where this will all take place is high mountain country with four seasons, lush timber and more remote than most other communities in this part of the state. It is ideal for the kind of training center we are putting together.

Currently there is a large packed gravel and dirt airstrip, 5,000 feet long and with an elevation of 6,830 feet above sea-level. From this high mountain strip we will train native Mexican men and women to be missionary bush pilots. After they earn their pilots license, part of their training will consist of performing many hours of co-pilot flying duty, to assist in servicing the greater Sacramento Mountain communities. This mountain flying will prepare them for their more difficult challenges as bush pilots in Mexico, serving in the ministry. Small planes are one of the key elements of access to many of Mexico's most rural areas. So, this aspect of our mission outreach is critical to our overall success. Although I am blessed to be a private pilot and certified flight instructor, with some bush pilot experience, I will not personally be in charge of the flight training program. This and many other leadership positions will be filled by others who are seeking to fulfill their goals and dreams.

The whole Sacramento Mountain Range is filled with many communities that need skilled labor for new construction, remodeling, maintenance, forestry, logging, small business knowledge and small plane transportation service. Our training center will train dozens, then hundreds and even thousands of young Mexican men and women from mountain villages and rural areas. We will train and employ them in these many needed skilled labor positions. After two to three years when their training at the center is competed, we will return them to their villages with new skills and with new business capital to provide for their new entrepreneurial adventure. The personal and financial mentoring will be carried over into their businesses. There will be ongoing supervision and mentoring for the use of their capital and for assisting each one to assure that they are as successful as possible in their new endeavors.

Rejoining their local congregations, family and friends, many will become very key elements in the future spiritual and economic growth of their communities. They will be imaging the whole gospel to the whole man for their world. They will take with them the knowledge, to be leaders, goal setters and visionaries, in Christ's Kingdom and to teach everything they have learned to others within their communities.

RMIC will need many individuals to join us and to be a part of this new chapter in missions. We hope and pray that some of you will one day join us in this great undertaking. RMIC is one of your ministry and missionary options, and in this case even to utilize your own BAM Company as part of the team.