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Promised Land Companies, Inc. was started by an evangelical Christian who has a passion for the supremacy of God in all things through Jesus Christ and who works in the land development and construction field.
Attending churches that were going through building programs over the years gave him the opportunity to seek God in how he might participate in giving more then he already did in his tithes and offerings in order to help in these building efforts. The Lord revealed that if the efforts of this professional could be used in securing the land, buying the products/materials, and finally building the projects otherwise built by standard and typical development/construction companies, he could produce hundreds or thousands of times the dollar amount of additional funds to use as an offering versus what he could sacrifice out of his own savings and financial assets.
Out of this circumstance through the years has grown this vision of finding a way to keep the money that is in an organization, such as a church, and not pay for the traditional mark-ups, contingencies, and profit lines that ‘for-profit’ companies have to carry in their schedule of values to insure that they succeed and become very profitable. Instead, build the project at cost and take this same money that would have been paid out to the traditional system of land development and construction with profits, and use that money to fund projects that promote the supremacy of God through Jesus Christ to feed the hungry, provide shelter for the homeless, help the widowed, and fund missionary efforts in our local community and around the world.
The savings could also be used to help develop and build low-income housing, assisted living facilities, repair homes of the elderly, send disaster relief to communities or countries in need. Cost savings would be afforded to charter schools, private schools, scientific or educational facilities, and medical facilities that are non-profit in their business organization. Urban initiatives would also be promoted and funded.
It was also recognized that for the mission of Promised Land to be fulfilled, some upfront consulting might need to be completed with our clients, coaching and mentoring them through organizational and personal issues regarding unity around Christ and His purposes, especially when contemplating building programs. It is also believed that our clients might benefit from help in some foundational business skills, helping their organizations to be more effective.
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