FINDING WHERE GOD CALLED ME TO BE AND WHERE I WAS MEANT TO BE
It’s impossible to separate my walk with the Lord and my business. My dad had a Styrofoam business for a light and industrial manufacturing company. At the age of 13, I would spend my summer working with him in the factory. I did this up through college and enjoyed every minute. My dad was my role model, and I wanted to follow in his footsteps. However, after I began following Christ in my 20s, I asked Him if He’d been calling me into the ministry. If you felt serious about God, I thought you had to either become a pastor or a missionary. But I decided to follow in my father’s footsteps and develop my own foaming business. At the time, I didn’t know this could be my form of ministry. I openly
That’s when I learned that God calls everyone to be a minister, but that doesn’t mean working in a church or going on missions. Your business and how you operate it can be your ministry. Today, I own and manage Progressive Foam Technologies Incorporated. I combined the business skills I learned from my father — and the spiritual gifts I developed in the church — to run my kingdom business. I used Biblical principles in my company and improved my leadership and management skills that way. I continue to share my faith with my employees and encourage them to do the same. We will pray together and support each other personally and professionally. If one of my colleagues has a loved one in the hospital, a newborn on the way, or other life-changing events, I pray and take time to visit with them. Since starting my Kingdom business, it’s exponentially grown throughout the years. Listening to what God has called me to do has inspired me in more ways than one. I encourage you to listen to God and what He says. Where are you supposed to be? Is God calling you somewhere? I’m looking forward to the future and what it has in store for me and my community.
shared my faith with my employees, offered prayer sessions, and supported and treated them as Jesus would. As a result, many of my employees found faith and turned their life over to God. Seeing my impact on them inspired me so much that I wanted to go into the ministry full time. My church even offered me a position as their youth pastor, and I accepted. I stayed at the church for four years and found my spiritual gifts. I’m so thankful for the experiences being a pastor provided for me, the people I met, and the different ways I impacted my community. Then … one day God spoke to me loud and clear. He didn’t call me to work with other Christians all day. Instead, He called
me to work with the blue-collar, working-class people. I spent my entire life around these individuals. I knew their culture, what was important to them, and how to communicate effectively with them. God wanted me to share His grace with them in our daily work.
Thank you, God, for all of your blessings.
-P.C.
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