There are well over 6.5 billion people. Most live in Asia. While you are at work today, another 250,000 people will be born into this world; 150,000 more will die. Every 5 seconds a hungry child will perish. Every minute, someone will die from TB in India. 60% of Asians will earn less than £1 today, 20% of Mongolians will be unemployed and hungry North Koreans will face severe food shortages…for the 12th successive year.

While you are at work today, the Gospel will be shared in Kashmir, in Tibet as well as in North Korea and Laos. These are some of the toughest, ideologically resistant and spiritually oppressive places on earth. Yet, today, while you are at work, perhaps as many as 25,000 will come to know Jesus Christ…and that's just in China !

What

In many countries, business enterprise is an extremely critical piece in the puzzle. Creating Christian businesses with Christian employees, Christian principles and Christian purpose is key to establishing a Christian platform where none exists. Remember, these are unreached peoples. Moreover, business can effectively transform a struggling society. Moving beyond short-term aid to provide employment, income and stability can make all the difference to an individual, a family and a society.

How

AsiaLink is looking for your help. We are deeply committed to reaching Asia's unreached. Many are in highly inaccessible areas, geographically maybe, often politically. For whatever reason, there are still well over 2 billion people in the world who know absolutely nothing of Jesus Christ. How are we going to reach them? Here are four options to get you involved.

Option 1: Shared Knowledge

A one week trip to train business people overseas. Opportunities are sometimes available to conduct specialist seminars internationally. You can share your business knowledge, answer pressing questions and get to know people from other cultures.

Option 2: Business Platforms

It's one thing to set up a business in your own country but how about helping set one up in Asia…one that is wholly focussed on introducing the Gospel to people otherwise shut off to the Good News. Creating business platforms is a critical tool in getting key workers into restricted areas. Business is also key to long-term rehabilitation and change. Investments range from £5000 to £100,000. The returns are immeasurable. If your company has funds set aside for charitable purposes, we'd love to hear from you.

Option 3: Vision-Building

Funding is great and it's vital...but how about going to see? AsiaLink provides careful opportunities to visit ministries. Trips can be absolutely life-changing for you and your church.

Option 4: Grants

Grants are very important to AsiaLink. They enable us to continue major work in some of Asia's remaining mission challenges. We have a wide range of projects in need of funding. If you are know of a grant-making organisation who you think may be able to help us, please get in touch.

For more information, email: business@asialink.org.uk

Don't just sit there. Change a Life!

"There they sit, row after row of remarkably gifted grown-ups. Dressed in proper Sunday attire, they are waiting—waiting for the minister to step to the microphone with words to ignite them, hoping that this Sunday he will challenge them to more than a capital funds campaign for the new church building. They wait, these talented ones, for words to stir them, to drive them from their comfort to challenges worthy of their best. Perhaps today they will hear the call to tasks of greater significance than their own personal success or the growth of their church.

"An architect, an accountant, a surgeon, and seven other professionals file down the centre aisle. They bow for prayer, then dutifully fan out with the offering plates to collect a cut of the profits from the marketplace. With the exception of a CEO who reads the morning Scripture, ushering is the most noticeable role that lay leaders fill. Less visible are the estate agents, insurance brokers, and teachers who serve on church committees. But there they sit, a people with the nature and the gifts of the Divine, fully equipped with every skill and ability necessary to tackle the complex problems of the world. Although domesticated by their culture, they long for the courage to throw off the obligations of consumerism and spend themselves for the God who has called them.

If God has blessed you with skills, experience, education or financial means, you need not just sit there in the pews any longer. There are ways for professionals to "spend themselves for the God who has called them." Change a life on the other side of the globe. Build up a Kingdom business. Transform a community—or a country. Introduce people to God and touch their eternity. Find a way—today—to get involved in world missions. Bob Lupton, “For Theirs is the Kingdom”