Small Town Planting: The Impact of Outsourcing

Love it or hate outsourcing is here to stay. Business big and small are outsourcing as a way to cut costs and narrow their employees focus to what the core business is about. Typically outsourcing has been done by sending jobs oversees. A new trend is developing that sees outsourcing going into rural and small town USA. An article on globalservicesmedia.com (an outsourcing website) entitled...
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Burden Births Vision

I grew up in Tuscola, Illinois, a small town of 5,000 22 miles south of Champaign. Like many who spend their childhood in small towns I couldn’t wait to get away. I left when I was 18 and didn’t look back. Since leaving, I have moved 8 times and have experienced many different places. I helped plant LifePointe Christian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently serve on...
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