Faith Driven Investing in Frontier Markets with Ray Barreth | Episode 007

Enormous sums of Christian money are sitting in donor-advised funds, waiting. At the same time, entrepreneurs across Africa are building businesses that need capital to grow. The problem isn’t necessarily stinginess. It’s risk. Investors often see African markets as uncertain and wonder whether their capital will be stewarded well or whether they’ll see a return. Ray Barreth thinks redemptive investing starts with a paradigm shift. You don’t invest in founders from a distance and make money off them. You enter into the risk and make money with them. And, you minimize the risk by investing with guidance from knowledgable partners. Ray is a serial entrepreneur, former pastor, and church planter who invested in his first African business 40 years ago. Today, he serves as the Entrepreneur in Residence at Sinapis, providing both practical and spiritual guidance to our team and the entrepreneurs we serve. In this episode of Scaling What Matters, Matthew Rohrs sits down with Ray to discuss the difference between an ethical business and a redemptive one, as well as how the resurrection can inform how we invest. KEY TAKEAWAYS ➡️ Kingdom investing involves making money with someone, not off of someone. ➡️ The difference between ethical business and redemptive business is risk. Ethical companies operate honestly. Redemptive companies accept loss in order to bring blessing to someone else. ➡️ The barrier to Christian capital reaching African founders is not generosity. It is that investors do not know the terrain, and going in without a partner on the ground is how the money disappears. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Welcome and why frontier markets 06:13 - Two callings, the pulpit and the marketplace 11:47 - Why the church separated business from calling 18:01 - Work as formation, not just ethics 24:20 - Redemption Capital and investing with rather than off 29:32 - The donor advised fund gap 34:52 - Nothing done faithfully is lost CONNECT: Website: https://www.sinapis.org/ Matthew's LinkedIn:   / matthew-rohrs-1692715   Sinapis' LinkedIn:   / sinapis-group   Instagram:   / sinapisgroup   New episodes every other week. HASHTAGS #FaithDrivenEntrepreneurship #KingdomBusiness #Sinapis #ScalingWhatMatters #RedemptiveInvesting #FrontierMarkets