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The Business Professional Network (BPN)

  • Seeks ways to encourage and support others in the task of "missions through business."
  • Connects western world business resources with needs and opportunities in the developing world
  • Provides training to nationals in business principles and integrity
  • Administers trust funds (revolving loan funds) and helps entrepreneurs find access to capital
  • Assists and encourages other organizations working in business-related missions.

For many years, medical personnel have had opportunities to help in needy parts of the world, but the efforts of business professionals have not been well coordinated. BPN networks the western world business community with economically struggling communities of the world. In some ways, the business person can help as no one else can. Helping improve someone's means of making a living is not aid or hand-outs; it is self-sustaining help that "keeps on helping."

The ultimate goal of our services and assistance is to bolster the witness of Christ around the world.

Business Conference set for Sofia, Bulgaria - June 14, 2008 Jointly Sponsored by Integra and Business Professional Network (brochure in Bulgarian) - 5MB


BPN President, John Warton, interviewed on KPDQ by talk show hostess, Georgine Rice, during Mission Connection Northwest 2008 along with U.S. business owner John Forsythe and Australian business consultant Peter Bennett. John explains how ‘business and mission’ rightly belong together as part of 21st century mission strategies.

IN MEMORIAM – Brian Wegerle

Brian, pictured at right with his wife, Jenny and BPN John Warton with his wife, Kate, was killed in a road accident in his native South Africa on June 13, 2007. He had founded Pacific Institute, a management training company in Johannesburg, to provide best practices and Biblical values for workers and executives of all races. He also created Eagle Wind, a group of four Harley-Davidson dealerships in South Africa; he loved the bikes and the bikers. Eagle Wind Manor was a guest house he and Jenny established as a countryside stop-over for bikers, travelers, the abused and those with troubled marriages. He was an elder of his church and leader of many ministries. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Business Professional Network. As a believer in Jesus Christ, Brian “shall live even if he dies; everyone who lives and believes in [Jesus] shall never die.” John 11:25-26