Becca Spradlin: Avoiding Mission Drift in Our Families and Organizations

Generous Business Owner

Have you written down the guidelines and guardrails for your family or organization’s mission?

In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Becca discuss:

• Learning from her father how a tax preparation business can be part of a Christian mission from a young age.
• Entrepreneurship in the mission space.
• Engaging your children in your family’s mission.
• Discerning your mission with guidance and guardrails.

Key Takeaways:

• Be willing to answer the call to opportunity. You never know what God has planned for you if you don’t take the leap.
• Encourage generosity with your children. This starts with helping them to understand what is in the world.
• Cater your family meetings to the age of your kids. It is possible to bring them in from a young age.
• Write down the guardrails. If you know what your mission is, it is easier to give and serve on alignment without tension and conflict.

"We don't want to unnecessarily handcuff any organization, because we want them to change and innovate. We want to force the innovation within that to really go deeper with the mission to have a greater eternal impact, more so than we have today and in a context that we can't imagine today." — Becca Spradlin

Episode References:

• HOPE International: https://www.hopeinternational.org/
• Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities, and Churches by Peter Greer & Chris Horst: https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Drift-Unspoken-Charities-Churches/dp/0764211013

About Becca Spradlin: Becca Spradlin, founder of On Mission Advisors, specializes in executive facilitation, organizational assessment, strategy design, execution, and change management. Becca started On Mission to help Christian business and nonprofit leaders define, protect, and champion what matters most in light of eternity.

She has facilitated workshops, strategy design, and evaluations of businesses and nonprofits across five continents. She is certified in change management, adult learning, and human-centered design. She holds a master’s degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University and undergraduate degrees in business and communications from Grove City College.

She is the author of Lead On Mission: Advance Faith at Work. Avoid Mission Drift. Build a Legacy of Eternal Impact. She also co-authored the Mission True Workbook with the authors of Mission Drift. She served as a research fellow at Seattle Pacific University’s Center for Faithful Business, researching faith cultivation and drift in Christian-led businesses. She writes and speaks on how companies can define and align their firms around faith and avoid drift. Becca lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three daughters.

Connect with Becca Spradlin:

Website: www.onmissionadvisors.com

Lead On Mission. Advance Faith at Work. Avoid Mission Drift. Build a Legacy of Eternal Impact.: www.leadonmissionbook.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bspradlin/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/on-mission-advisors/

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