Ellen White was very passionate about missional entrepreneurship and combining faith and business. She wrote: “You have felt that business is business, religion is religion, but I tell you that these cannot be divorced. (…) You are not to put asunder that which God has joined— business and religion.”¹
Entire books were compiled on certain business models, like The Health Food Ministry which calls us to have vegetarian restaurants in every city of the world. Counsels on Health and Medical Ministry focuses on health-related businesses like hospitals, sanitariums, treatment rooms and clinics. Then there is Colporteur Ministry, which talks about training students in sales and funding their tuition while doing evangelism with the books they sell.
Ellen White also wrote about how we should reach the cities by building a “beehive” network of missional ventures that would involve all church members. This self-sustainable, “all inclusive” beehive model of reaching the cities plays a prophetic role in the final outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of the three angels’ messages.