I don't know much about business but I have a cousin that has always told me that "if someone is serious about a business then they should come to me with a business plan in hand and I will treat them like they are serious."
I did some research and downloaded what I thought could help each of them, a simple template for each one with specific sections that they now have to research and fill out. The road ahead is long and full of exciting and frustrating moments but I am so very excited to see where this goes for each of them.
I am so sure that there are resources here on the island and possibly in other areas that they just need to learn how share with and make the needs known. They are both looking for help not handouts, each needing loans and wanting to pay them back so that others can use the same resources. They need to learn that having a business is not an easy process and that if they can put the time into their plan then they could possibly put the time necessary into a business and make it really work while providing a great car service for one and a restaurant with delicious treats for the other one.
MY PLEA AND PRAYER REQUEST is simple: ANY suggestions are welcomed... is someone willing to come to Madagascar to walk alongside of some of the people here to assist where needed? I would love to learn in the process as well. Praying for people to give small micro business LOANS ($2,000 - $5,000) and for these businesses to get off the ground.
I am praying that GOD would be glorified and that each business would provide the necessary means for each family.
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Is it possible that World Vision or another missions organizations provides micro business loans to nationals?
ReplyDeleteThe Rightness of your request and plea is affirmed by the word of God:
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PAUL'S ADVISE ON FINANCIAL GIVING:
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2 Corinthians 8:14 NIV:
At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality,
2 Corinthians 9:12 NIV:
This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
BIBLICAL ADVISE RE: WORK
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Proverbs 14:23 NIV:
All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 28:19 NIV:
He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
Proverbs 12:14-15 NIV:
From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him. The way of a fool seems right to him,but a wise man listens to advice.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 NIV:
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
Proverbs 22:29 NIV:
Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will serve before kings;
he will not serve before obscure men.
Ecclesiastes 2:24-25 NIV:
A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?
Ecclesiastes 5:19 NIV:
Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work—this is a gift of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NIV:
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
PRAYER EXAMPLE FOR THE MALAYSIAN MEN:
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Nehemiah 6:9 NIV:
They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed."
But I prayed, "Now strengthen my hands."
Psalm 138:8 NIV:
The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands.
Psalm 90:17 NIV:
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.