MALIBU — Over the past three months Pepperdine SIFE students Gabriel Johnson and Erica Edgerson having been working with five Pepperdine students to coordinate a global outreach to La Quemada, Mexico where the students will help in the entrepreneurial develop of a water store to rebuild the community’s economy.
The local economy of La Quemada has failed to provide jobs for many of its adult males. In order for these males to provide for their families, they have come to the United States to work and send their earnings back home. Pepperdine students Gabriel Johnson, Erica Edgerson, Andrew Smith, Lauren Hartley, Elizabeth Froeberg, and Jackie Belue will be working with Virginia Thomas–who recently completed her undergraduate work at Pepperdine–and others from the Texas-based global outreach organization Business Without Borders to help bring jobs to the community with this new water store.
The trip will also be an educational journey for the students as they learn how they can incorporate their Christian faith and entrepreneurial spirit under a new ministry model called Business as Mission (BAM). It is the goal of Business Without Borders that the profits from the water store be used to fund Christian ministry in the community. Throughout the 10-day journey, the students will be participating in daily training sessions provided by Business Without Borders where they will learn more about BAM. It is the hope of the participating students to bring the vision of BAM back to the Pepperdine campus to educate more students about this exciting new form of ministry.
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