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Lowell Bakke
Theology of Work Grant Program
2715 E 62nd AVE Apartment H-12
Fife, Washington 98424

The 2021 Grant application has been filled and is temporarily closed. Please check back toward the end of April 2021 should something change.  Thank you for your understanding.

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Church in Covid-19 World

The Church in Covid-19 World

The Kingdom Citizens Pavilion, Jos Experience

Written by: 
Oladotun Reju

Greetings from Jos City, North Central Nigeria. It is my belief that God in His mercies is keeping safe and healthy in the midst of this Global Pandemic.

I never planned to put these thoughts into writing but a casual and usual Skype (yes skype, he still uses Skype) chat with Lowell led to this. He asked how I was coping with the lockdown and I explained my current learning task during this pandemic which has been LEARNING HOW TO DO NOTHING.  

My guiding scriptures has been:

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” (Psalm 46:10, NKJV)

“But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”” (Habakkuk 2:20, NKJV)

This position has been influenced by my exposure to THEOLOGY OF WORK and how the concept has successfully shaped The Kingdom Citizens Pavilion (KCP) Jos, the church which I currently serve.

It is no longer news that the current COVID-19 Pandemic has altered the world and no doubt has implications for Church globally and KCP in particular. But a bit different of experience for KCP being a TOW woven church

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Church for Monday by Dr. Svetlana Papazov

Note: Below  is the excerpt from Church for Monday by Dr. Sveltana Papazov.  To purchase the book, go to churchformonday.com

 At Real Life, the church I started and pastor in Midlothian, VA, we have embraced the biblical mandate for work and fostering next-generation creativity and have developed a hands-on entrepreneurial program that teaches the value of work, faith, and innovation. For kids, we offer Real Life KidPreneurs and for teens Real Life TeenPreneurs. In this program elementary, middle school, and high school students are trained in faith and entrepreneurship during the year. Students develop business plans and present them to friends from the community in a “Shark Tank” environment. For adult entrepreneurs we offer business training and speaking coaching.

These are some of the ways we embed ourselves in the economy. How do you envision your local church embedding itself in the marketplace?

Dennis Bakke's Resources

Document Resources
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Decision Maker (Slides) v. 1
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 Free to Download Theology of Work
Decision Maker Bible Study
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Joy at Work (Postscript)
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Joy at Work (Seminar Video)
This is a set of 9 videos of Joy at Work Seminar by Dennis Bakke
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Joy at Work Audiobook
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Joy at Work Audiobook (the complete set of 1-57 tracks)

This is the audiobook version of Joy at Work by Dennis Bakke, narrated by Dennis Bakke, 9 hours 28 minutes.

To download one track at a time, click on the link provided.  This will take you to a folder in mediafire with all 57 tracks.  Click on each title to download.

To download the whole folder, click on the green button with the down arrow at the right top of the page in mediafire.

 Download this audiobook Joy at Work

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Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job
Book Description: 

Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more.

In Joy at Work, Dennis W. Bakke tells the true story of this extraordinary company--and how, as its co-founder and longtime CEO, he challenged the business establishment with revolutionary ideas that could remake America's organizations. It is the story of AES, whose business model and operating ethos -"let's have fun"-were conceived during a 90-minute car ride from Annapolis, Maryland, to Washington, D.C. In the next two decades, it became a worldwide energy giant with 40,000 employees in 31 countries and revenues of $8.6 billion. It's a remarkable tale told by a remarkable man: Bakke, a farm boy who was shaped by his religious faith, his years at Harvard Business School, and his experience working for the Federal Energy Administration. He rejects workplace drudgery as a noxious remnant of the Industrial Revolution. He believes work should be fun, and at AES he set out to prove it could be. Bakke sought not the empty "fun" of the Friday beer blast but the joy of a workplace where every person, from custodian to CEO, has the power to use his or her God-given talents free of needless corporate bureaucracy.

In Joy at Work, Bakke tells how he helped create a company where every decision made at the top was lamented as a lost chance to delegate responsibility--and where all employees were encouraged to take the "game-winning shot," even when it wasn't a slam-dunk. Perhaps Bakke's most radical stand was his struggle to break the stranglehold of "creating shareholder value" on the corporate mind-set and replace it with more timeless values: integrity, fairness, social responsibility, and a sense of fun.

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The Decision Maker
The Decision Maker by Dennis Bakke
Book Description: 

Who makes the important decisions in your organization? Strategy, product development, budgeting, compensation—such key decisions typically are made by company leaders. That’s what bosses are for, right? But maybe the boss isn’t the best person to make the call.
That’s the conclusion Dennis Bakke came to, and he used it to build AES into a Fortune 200 global power company with 27,000 people in 27 countries. He used it again to create Imagine Schools, the largest non-profit charter-school network in the U.S.
As a student at Harvard Business School, Bakke made hundreds of decisions using the case-study method. He realized two things: decision-making is the best way to develop people; and that shouldn't stop at business school. So Bakke spread decision-making throughout his organizations, fully engaging people at all levels. Today, Bakke has given thousands of people the freedom and responsibility to make decisions that matter.
In The Decision Maker, a leadership fable loosely based on Bakke's experience, the New York Times bestselling author shows us how giving decisions to the people closest to the action can transform any organization.
The idea is simple.
The results are powerful.
When leaders put real control into the hands of their people, they tap incalculable potential. The Decision Maker, destined to be a business classic, holds the key to unlocking the potential of every person in your organization.

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