18 - Starting 1,000 Businesses To Fund Missions | Brandon and Jessica Hotz

Mission work needs funds in order to bring the Gospel to regions of the world where Jesus’ name isn't widely known. But what could be a source of funding that is sustainable and makes a stronger impact on the communities we are trying to reach? What if we use business ventures so that local business proprietors, communities, mission workers, customers, and everyone linked to the business can know the love of Jesus?

That’s what our guests today, Brandon and Jessica Hotz of Elevate and Activate Global, are doing - using kingdom business and its funding model to spread the Gospel. By helping start small businesses in developing countries, they are able to reach impoverished, hard-to-reach communities, teaching skills and providing meaningful jobs and steady sources of income to people in need — all while doing mission activities and sharing the word of God. Listen now and get to know how Jessica’s and Brandon’s unique business ministries are helping improve communities, building meaningful relationships, and addressing social and economic needs along with spiritual needs.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Brandon and Jessica share their personal background and how they started their mission project.
• The pivotal moments in Brandon and Jessica’s lives that put them on the trajectory to their mission
• How Brandon and Jessica met and what led them to take their first mission trip
• The springboard that launched their first nonprofit
• How the first business was started and how they’ve since helped over 300 families start small businesses to support their ministries and their families across 20 countries.
• What is Kingdom Business Training and why Brandon and Jessica designed a curriculum to help others replicate their kingdom business model and kingdom-building ministry?
• Jessica shares the process and criteria for selecting partners
• What is the most surprising thing that Jessica and Brandon learned along their journey?
• Brandon and Jessica talk about the global church and what mission organizations and leaders are pursuing to complete the Great Commission.
• The top challenges to finishing the Great Commission in this generation
• Brandon’s and Jessica’s advice on how to get involved in Kingdom mission and be better stewards of God’s gifts and resources
• Brandon and Jessica share the vision that God has given them and how they’re accomplishing that vision.

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About Jessica and Brandon Hotz

In their early 20s, Brandon and Jessica Hotz started a leather goods company called Elevate to help solve the problem of sustainably funding ministries in unreached countries. Out of that successful business, they started a nonprofit organization, Activate Global, to train and equip mission leaders in over 20 countries. Through these leaders, they have started 312 businesses to fuel ministries in some of the hardest-to-reach areas in the world. When Brandon and Jessica aren't traveling the world, they find their home base in Lincoln, Nebraska.