Small Business
Guidance for those who want to build
Plain, honest guidance for members who want to start or steady a small business: planning, bookkeeping, pricing, licences and where to find free help, with mentors from inside and outside the congregation.
The first funds pay for workshop materials, a meeting place, and the printed guides members take home.
A congregation of builders needs builders who can keep their own books. Prosperity shared is prosperity that lasts.
In plain words
The clinic
Regular sessions where anyone can bring an idea or a problem and leave with a next step.
Mentors
Members and friends with experience walk beside new owners, one on one.
Free help first
We point people to the free small-business counselling that already exists, before anyone spends a dollar.
Open books
Every Fellowship business keeps transparent books, and we teach members to do the same.
Starting a Small Business the Fellowship Way
The complete step-by-step guide as a free PDF, written so that any community can follow it. It appears here the day it is finished.
Learn by watching
Business planning, simple bookkeeping, pricing, licences. Made in house, free, and paired with the guide.
- Mentor a new business owner
- Share what you learned the hard way
- Help with bookkeeping, design or websites
Everything we learn goes into the free guide and the workshop videos. When they are ready, any congregation, church, school or neighbourhood may take them and build the same thing, with our blessing and without asking.
Trust in God with all thine heart; and be not exalted in thine own wisdom.Proverbs 3:5 · The Fellowship Bible