Fountain of Life Church in West Long Beach, CA is home to two social enterprises and a wealth of Kingdom fruit. 5000 Pies is a pizza shop across from the…

Common Ground Covenant Church in Jackson, MS is a church with a serious vision for its community. West Jackson is the epicenter for the Kingdom fruit being born out by…

Fleurish Industries is the social enterprise arm of The Restoration Initiative for Culture and Community in New Orleans, LA. Started by Canal Street Church, the Restoration Initiative’s vision for Fleurish…

This is the last post in this series on vocation and the importance of thinking local when we want to do economic development work in a way that celebrates each…

Last time, we ended with Wendell Berry’s line “without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.” There is a lot we COULD say about…

The world is changing rapidly. Becoming more global, more diverse, more urban. There is so much we gain from our globalizing world. But, at the risk of potentially sounding a…

Frederick Buechner remarks that vocation is “the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” I love this line. I resonate deeply with it and am inspired by…

If you look at our marketplace page, you’ll see a growing number of enterprises in the CovEnterprises family. Some of them we’ve had the privilege of helping to launch, but…

Over the past three years, CovEnterprises and LMDJ has hosted an intensive on social enterprise at Midwinter. Each year, we have gathered pastors and community development practitioners from inside and…

Lastly for our series on looking for natural advantages for your business, we come to the question of material. What does it take to run your business, specifically, what consumable…