Brainstorming on how to develop Youth Startups in Mexico

Entrepreneurship as Intentional Gospel Mission

Sammy Ortiz
5 min readNov 1, 2019

I know that for some, entrepreneurship and mission do not belong together. Somehow, it’s as if the only way to accomplish God’s mission is by being in full-time vocational ministry.

The Mission Field of Underestimated Communities

I work in a community that is underestimated! Not only is the community underestimated, it’s invisible.

If there was ever a place that needed missionaries, underestimated communities do.

Unfortunately, when we think about the mission field, it’s somewhere overseas. We don’t think about the people who live on the other side of town, or down the street.

How is it that we can spend thousands of dollars to go overseas, yet fail to help the people that live in our own cities?

There is a way to help people without hurting them.

Faith, Work, and Entrepreneurship

These three go together even though it may jar the brain to think of them as one package.

We see these three in operation in the book of Genesis in the Bible. In chapter 1, we see God creating everything from nothing. Chapter 2 is where faith, work, and entrepreneurship is introduced.

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Sammy Ortiz

U.S. Army Veteran | Social Entrepreneur | Ecosystem Builder | Founder of Community Collective