Believer in Business
for LIFE Fellowship
Leadership, Innovation, Faith & Entrepreneurship
Equipping Believers in business to live the abundant life through entrepreneurship
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Kudos!
Big Ups From Framily!
Melissa Dawn Simkins, CEO, and Founder
Velvet Suite and Founder, The She-Suite
When I think about the formula for my successful start in entrepreneurship, it included Rodney Swope. He gave me the structure to build a plan, challenged my vision, and supported me along the way with wise counsel and strategic business insight. He moves in God’s grace and his life and career experiences have culminated to do this work. There is no better combination and no better person to partner with!
Lonnie Grayson, President/CEO
Environmental and Safety Solutions, Inc,
Guardian Staffing Solutions, LLC
We have relied on Rodney for guidance and support at least monthly since 2002. In everything from corporate plans, hiring, banking, investing, and strategy, his wisdom and service to our businesses is a priceless ingredient to our companies' success and sustainability.
Farzana Hussain, Founder
Maryam’s Charity, Inc
Rodney inspired me to launch a charity to serve the children in our community. His supportive and expert coaching helped me to develop a sound business strategy and learn the federal-state policies and procedures to get our non-profit organization launched the right way.
Eric Ruffin, Founder & General Manager
ABEL Building Systems
Rodney’s wisdom in life and economics is complimented by his heart to share, teach and learn from others. Rodney is an excellent coach and strategist. I’m a wiser more effective leader and my business has benefited greatly from Professor Rodney.
Are You
Called to Create?
Get Coaching, Training
to help you
Launch & Grow
your Business Now!
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BIB LIFE is an Educational Fellowship for People of Faith in Entrepreneurship
Our Why
We are Called to Equip Leaders in Faith in Entrepreneurship
We invest our time, talent, and treasure, take the risks to organize and creating value for others. We follow the example of the greatest entrepreneur ever - Jesus.
We strive to equip believers in business with the know-how and mentorship to successfully launch and grow businesses that add value to their families, communities, and the Kingdom of God.
We are Believers in Business for LIFE
Leadership
Innovation
Faith, &
Entrepreneurship!Wanna Start Business?
Don't Bother with a business plan!
Model it!
There's a better way!
Here's Why>>>>>>
Business Plans' Failing Assumptions
There's a customer for your solution;
The plan will work;
If you build it, they will come!
Form it First!
Use the BIB-Life Business Model Canvas!
•Prove you’ve got product-market-fit
•Count the costs carefully
•Build the essential business capabilities and systems for success
Spend Time to
Form it!
Prove it!
Then, breathe life-giving capital into it!
Get the F.A.CTs in a
Believers in Business
LIFE Group?
A group of BiBs that are really good at what they do,
who place importance on faith in their lives,
and who want to be around others
who care about the same things.
Sound like you?
In a BIB LIFE Group you will:
- Dedicate 90 minutes per month sharpening yourself
- Meet over coffee with peer entrepreneurs
- Get LIFE know-how from a BiB Life Shepherd
- Learn to create a culture of Biblical identity
- Peer to Peer advisory for strategic and pressing issues
- Annual Day Retreat with teaching, fun, and fellowship
- Use the LIFE Ring model for the format/agenda of our meetings.
What is this LIFE Ring thing?
Structure
- The LIFE Ring shares insights and fosters dialogue
- Table leader (that’s you) chooses a LIFE topic
- LIFE -leadership, innovation, faith, or entrepreneurship.
- BIB Shepherd shares BIB LIFE insights in the center ring
- Get unique teaching and practical tools for LIFE
- A LIFE Ring session lasts for 30 minutes
- 3 LIFE rings per session.
The FACTs
Fellowship
Accountability
Coaching
Training
Get in a BIB Life Group
Joining a BIB Life Group Conclave
1- Register and select your best available times for a 2-hour Virtual Meeting.
2- Pay with credit, debit, or PayPal.
- You will be assigned to a conclave based on schedules and a mix of business.
- You will get a confirmation email and a Zoom Calendar Appointment
3Do BIB LIFE
- Join-up with your conclave and set expectations and mutual agreements for support and accountability.
- Participate in Monthly LIFE Group with three roundtable talks
BIB Tech
How we Equip you to Start & Grow your Business
Lean Start-up
The Current Best Approach
Lean start-up methodology has emerged as the current best approach to starting a business and has disrupted the conventional big design-business plan-get sales approach to starting businesses. The underlying philosophy focuses on envisioning a future that meets an unmet need, service to a customer, experimentation, adaptation, and passionate persistence.
Theology of Entrepreneurship
Reframed by Jesus the Entrepreneur
We are experts in entrepreneurship, economics, business development, strategic planning, and Lean business practices. Our coaches and trainers have sharpened their irons in big corporations, small and growing enterprises, and non-profits. With our decades of experience in adult education, and entrepreneurial practice we synthesize or acumen with the wisdom of the Word of God.
Economic Principles
Biblical Foundations
There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 The Message
The Founder & Chief Servant
Start and Grow your Business like Jesus would!
Rodney Dale Swope is the founder and Chief Servant behind the Believers in Business LIFE Academy.
I am passionate about three things
Advancing the Kingdom of God in the Marketplace;
Equipping Believers to live the abundant life in entrepreneurship;
Promoting Biblical Justice and Inclusion in our communities.
The Founder & Chief Servant
I am the grandson of a Pastor and Entrepreneur. I grew up in a family running a church and several businesses in Gary, Indiana. I learned early how to handle money and later to rightly divide the Word of God.
I studied, business, finances, strategy, and economics in universities and worked as an economist in fortune 100 corporations and civic organizations before adventuring off to experience a series of entrepreneurial endeavors. I enjoyed some wins and had lots of learning days.
After years of running from the mantle of ministry passed on from my grandfather, I found my purpose at the intersections of faith and finances, economics and entrepreneurship, Bibles, and briefcases. After serving as an administrative pastor and advisor in two church plants I discovered my true calling as a minister in the marketplace. I now work directly for a Jewish carpenter. He sends me on assignments. Even now, I work for Him disguised and Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurial Coach and Trainer.
I believe we are all called to create, be fruitful, and productive. Moreover, Jesus is the best role model to follow. He was the first and greatest ever business start-up founder. He started an enterprise that has grown steadily for over 2000 years. When we follow his model, we too can create successful businesses that are led as he led, and afford the abundant life for the founders, their families, and communities.
The BiBlog
Overservations, Insights, glimpses of the Out of Sight
May 14, 2021The fact that this question even piqued your interest is because there's been a divine deposit inside you. You have a calling to create! Like most of us Believers in Business (BIB) you are not sure why and likely not sure what business to start. You just feel certain that you need to start...April 29, 2021“Americans are starting businesses at the fastest rate in more than a decade. By September of 2020, applications for the employer identification numbers (EIN) had surpassed 3.2 million for the year, up more than 500,000 compared to the year before.” Many of these ‘want-trepreneurs' are in for...Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you...Join The BIB LiFE Fellowship!
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Clients and Partners We Serve
BIB Clients in the Fellowship
- Abel Building Solutions
- Arnold Guage
- Baroque Violin Shop
- Diversified Facilities Solutions
- Environmental & Safety Solutions
- Kiza Solutions
- Magna NDT
Ministry and Educational Enterprises we serve
- Peoples Church Cincinnati
- Overflow Ministries Covenant Church
- Global Leadership Partners
- University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
- Indiana Wesleyan University
BIB LIFE
Roundtable Groups
Fellowship Roundtables for Christian
Business Leaders
Are you a business leader hoping to lead like Jesus?
Want to learn & walk in fellowship with others just like you?
Leadership- Innovation-Faith-Entrepreneurship
Launch your Business like Jesus would do it
with others Just like you!