BUV Delivery Services is a program designed to promote an independent business that offers a transport service in a developing country. The program includes a small fleet of BUVs (10 units), a simple low-cost maintenance shop housed in a shipping container, vehicle management training to diminish damage due to overuse and poor maintenance, and ongoing business support. Each BDS program offers a Business Mission Institute (BMI) for business and spiritual training.

In essence, this becomes a viable fundraising program for the host organization.  The BDS manager serves in the same way a manager of a taxi cab company who reviews and monitors logs of delivery trips. He receives and distributes the revenues charged by the drivers for the deliveries.

BDS allows us to partner with a local in-country organizations to set up a simple low-cost BUV Maintenance Shop in a small building or a shipping container. The BDS  Maintenance Shop will store the BUVs each night and assist the drivers with scheduled maintenance work. The drivers, as BMI students, will receive a stipend for their daily labors taken from the delivery revenues after fuel and maintenance costs. We will offer them incentives from the funds set aside in a Bonus Pool. The remainder of those revenues will be distributed regularly per an established percentage system which creates a win-win for everyone including the host organization and the BUV Ministry of the Institute for Affordable Transportation.

In order to equip and empower young entrepreneurs, a "Business as Mission" curriculum is provided by our Business Mission Institute (BMI). The training provided in the BMI would be focused on BUV operations but could apply to other businesses.
BMI students will meet regularly for lectures, seminars, with live speakers or by video, discipleship and mentoring. Personal financial skills such as budgeting and biblical stewardship will also be part of the flexible curriculum.

The best students will be offered the chance to be involved in the leadership of the next BDS program in another town or market. Each BDS should have adequate revenues to launch a new program every three years. This multiplication effect will create more jobs and many BDS delivery businesses throughout the region. Each BDS program will pave the way for a future BUV Micro-Factory.

Drivers will meet each day for brief discussions, updates, reviews, approvals of deliveries, solutions to delivery challenges, mentoring, spiritual devotions, discipleship and prayers. Lectures, book reviews, seminars or complete courses could be offered on a weekly basis at a convenient time for everyone. The BMI will offer group discussions of resources such as the study of “Business as Missions”. We will utilize customized curriculum as well as resources from the BusinessAsMission Network, Navigators, Generous Giving, Crown Financial, Kingdom Advisors, Tentmakers International, etc.

Unlike a BUV Micro-factory, the BDS eliminates the need for micro-financing for individuals to purchase a BUV.
Our strategy is to introduce the BDS / BMI opportunity to mission minded investors who will see the ultimate value of this program that helps to create jobs, reduce poverty and bring about “transformation via transportation."

For more information, contact Ron Lively at 615-238-4035 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it