Business Professionals Committed to
Mutual Success † Ethical Business Practices † The Cause of Christ

The largest business networking organization in the world with about 5000 Chapters and 100,000 members has generated annually nearly 5 million referrals valued at close to 2 billion dollars!

Imagine what a similar networking organization consisting entirely of Believers could do, with the power of prayer, for the benefit of the Body, for the Glory of God!

Networking in Christ is a community of independent business networking organizations (chapters) that exist for the support of Christians in business and the fulfillment of The Great Commission.

The directory of all existing members which is, by faith, on its way to exceeding 100,000 worldwide, is available here.

The directory of all members eventually listed by country, state, city and chapter is available here.

Similar to other networking groups but significantly different!
• Exclusive Chapters: One member from each unique Area of Service—i.e. only one Chiropractor, one Life Insurance Rep, one Printer, etc
• Open Chapters: Two or more members with the same Area of Service. Also known as Non-Exclusive Chapters.
• Independent Chapters: Meet for a meal at restaurants. May be either Exclusive or Open.
• Church Sponsored Chapters: Meet at churches at other than meal times. May be either Exclusive or Open.
• Chapter Visits: NIC encourages members to regularly visit other chapters and to fully participate in networking opportunities, provided their particular Area of Service is not represented in any Exclusive Chapter they choose to visit.
• Funding of Chapter Expense: To provide sufficient funding for most expenses and some extra curricular activities, NIC Corporate donates a portion of every membership fee to an expense fund established by each chapter. Currently Independent Chapters receive $25.00 per new member and Church Sponsored Chapters will receive $10.00 out of every $75.00 paid NIC Corporate.
• Associate Memberships: Each chapter has the option to accept Associate Members. Associate members do not currently attest to the NIC Statement of Faith and although they may participate fully in chapter networking, they may not serve in NIC leadership positions. Name badges worn by Associate Members identify them accordingly and when they do their business commercial they are asked to introduce themselves as an Associate. We have included this option with the following hope and belief: 1. Associate Members will be open and drawn to God’s saving Grace. 2. Many will be more likely to check out Christianity at a business networking group than a local church. 3. They will experience the love of the Lord through NIC, eventually surrender their lives to His Lordship and join a local church.

Membership Benefits
• Business Networking & Growth Opportunities, Local Networking Chapters, Christian Fellowship & Support,
  Encouragement in Christ-centered Business Practices, Opportunities for national exposure

1. Networking & Fellowship: Meaningful fellowship, business referrals and Christ-centered business education.
2. Chapter Listings: Listings by city of chapter meetings and members, including meeting time and location, member names, areas of service and contact information. Chapter listings specify Exclusive or Non-exclusive Areas of Service.
3. Free Downloads: Suggested forms and procedures downloadable for free from our corporate site. This includes graphic files for signs, referral forms, name badges, etc. It also includes suggested job descriptions for Chapter President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Prayer Coordinator.
4. National Exposure: As funding permits, local and nationwide promotion of NIC chapters and member businesses.
5. Quarterly City-wide Meetings: Coordination of quarterly city-wide meetings of all members of affiliate networking organizations. All NIC chapters have the opportunity to join together in fellowship as one NIC Body quarterly for a breakfast, lunch or dinner meeting. Although networking may spontaneously occur, the focus of this quarterly meeting is not on networking. Networking and passing of business referrals is encouraged only between members of individual NIC chapters. The focus of our quarterly gatherings is on fellowship and education as it pertains to doing business the Lord’s way. Respected Christian business leaders within the local business community are usually our featured speakers.

Future Opportunities
• Online Business Directory: An online business directory categorized alphabetically by state, city and product or service. More information forthcoming, as time and funding permits.
• Servant Leadership Groups: These are mastermind groups of like-minded business owners who regularly meet to brainstorm and improve one another’s business. See RESOURCES for more details. An additional explanation of how these groups function may be found at Make-it-fly.com.
• Business Resource: Recommended reading and bookstore web page for Christians in business.
• Online Classifieds: Help Wanted Advertising.

Suggestions for improvement are always welcome

Because NIC is in its infancy, we believe it will grow to maturity through the suggestions of its members. Your suggestions for modification of our program and member benefits are always welcome. Our prayer and belief is that the Lord will work through His Body to make NIC the most powerful networking organization in the world!

Membership Fees

Independent Chapters
• Annual Membership: $125.00
• Registration: $25 - This is a one time administration fee and is not required annually.

Church Sponsored Chapters (Starting 2nd quarter 2008)
• Annual Membership & Registration is Free and most NIC operational resources may be downloaded for free. However, any church sponsored chapter member who wants to be listed as a chapter member on the NIC Website, participate in city-wide quarterly meetings and be included in our nation-wide business directory, is asked to pay $95.00 annually. Our prayer is that all church sponsored NIC members will opt to do this.
• Everything church leadership needs to know about sponsoring an NIC Chapter will soon be available at the RESOURCES page of this web site.
  
  NOTE: All NIC Chapters agree to nationwide standardized fees.

Strength Through Prayer

NIC meetings are bathed in prayer. Prior to every meeting, volunteer intercessors pray for the upcoming meeting, for members and member clients. All meetings start and end with prayer. In addition to very fruitful business networking, NIC affiliate organizations offer an opportunity for very meaningful fellowship and do much to strengthen the unity of the local Body of Christ. We believe that prayer is the immune system of the Body of Christ and that unbelief is the disease. To become a healthy, vibrant and fruitful Body of Christ, we must pray with and for one another!

Special Notes
• Please bless John Powell of Iwillbefree.com with your web development and web hosting business. John daily blesses us by his voluntary services on this web site.
• Please bless Gary Nowinski of Spot-on-Communications.com with your editing and “ghost writing” business. Gary also blesses us by his voluntary writing and editing services on this web site. Gary@Spot-on-Communications.com