The story
Faith and business were never meant to be separate.
My journey in business and faith began over thirty years ago at a network marketing conference — not a church, not a seminary. Something stirred in that room about purpose, calling, and what people were capable of. I did not know it at the time, but that tension between faith and enterprise was going to shape everything that followed.
I have spent most of my adult life in two worlds that most people treat as completely distinct — the church and the marketplace. For a long time, even I felt the tension between them. The pastoral calling pulling one way, the entrepreneurial drive pulling the other.
What I have come to understand — through years of doing both — is that the tension itself was a false construct. Building something with integrity, serving people well, creating employment, solving real problems: these are not secular pursuits that sit awkwardly alongside faith. They are expressions of it.
For a season, Kathy and I took our family to Northern Asia as missionaries. That experience reshaped everything — how I understand calling, how I read culture, and how I hold my own assumptions about faith and life. Living cross-culturally with your children is not a comfortable thing. It is, however, a clarifying one.
The businesses I run are not side projects to my ministry. They are part of the same calling. The coffee café that employs people with disabilities — that is pastoral work. The print company that helps small businesses and NFPs show up professionally — that is stewardship. The health business built on research I trust enough to stake my name on — that is care.
I have also made mistakes. Built things that did not work. Hired people I should not have, and missed opportunities I should have taken. Ministry has been the same — some seasons extraordinary, some deeply difficult. I do not think credibility comes from having it all figured out. It comes from doing the work honestly and staying in the room long enough to see what actually matters.
That is what keeps me going. And it is what I want to help others find.
