On to Dubai…



----The Burj Al Arab in Dubai----

I had lunch with a good friend from Dubai yesterday. We had only met in person once before briefly, but have shared countless emails and Skype conversations.

Though we wouldn’t end up meeting for another year, we were in the same room (along 600 other people) in Mumbai, India in 2004 for Crown’s Business by the Book Conference. This gentleman was a junior consultant with Ernst and Young in India and had decided to attend the conference with a friend.

Inspired by the idea of running a business by biblical financial principles, these two friends moved to Dubai to launch their company. He reminisced on the early start to the business:

Early on it was incredibly rough going, my wife and I shared a house with a single gentleman and another couple, and only my wife was able to bring in income during the difficult beginning.

But start they did.

Today they are rolling. With already over $23 million in revenue, they just landed by far their biggest client yet. The most impressive thing about their business is that they are able to reach into places the outside world would never have access to. They reach in with business and they reach in with Truth.

This is all possible because they found their “value-add” niche through business. When they do business in a place, they leave it better than they found it. In other words, they contribute.

Pray for my friend and his business. Know that as their bottom line increases, so does the kingdom’s.