A little over 10 years ago I had the privilege of joining a networking group in Largo Florida.  This networking group impacted my life and many of the group are still my friends today. And this wasn’t a Christ centered group, but it was full of incredible Christian’s living out their faith in their work. Today, the world has changed and we are introducing you today to the premier Christian Networking Group launching countrywide at www.G7Networking.com. Bob Willbanks and his team at Ambassadors for Business have created the perfect model for networking and faith for maximum kingdom impact in the marketplace. There will be opportunities around the country for you to launch a G7 Networking group building kingdom collaboration within your business community. Bob Willbanks is here to roll this out to the iWork4Him Audience.

Bob Willbanks, founder of Ambassadors for Business and now the G7 Networking Groups was looking for something more in connecting his faith and his work.  He thought of himself as “miserably saved” and knew that God wanted more from his daily life.  God gave him the word “equipping” and that became an acronym for the Ambassadors commitment for members of Ambassadors for Business. 

The equipping elements are: 

Engage, Questions, Understanding, Identity, Principles, Purpose, Integrate, Network, and Grow. 

God birthed through him a place to provide encouragement, meet others in business, pray, read scripture, have keynote teaching and networking called Ambassadors for Business.  Now they are launching G7 Networking groups. 

The Seven G’s of G7 Networking:

Gospel: Short devotional

Group: 60 second introductions

Grade: Metrics on how the group is doing

God: Testimony from one of the members

Grow: Informative content that helps you grow

Get: What is your “get”?

Give: Who can you help?

G7 Networking groups can be launched nationwide to fill the need in your local community.  Reach out to Bob to find out more at https://www.g7networking.com/

Featured Guest: Bob Willbanks

Workplace/Ministry: Ambassadors for Business / G7networking

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So often we start our year with new years resolutions and promises to ourselves to live a different, more meaningful life. Martha and I do that too. In 2021 we want to be interviewed on lots of platforms to encourage the 55 million Christ Following workplace believers to know their work matters to God. We had an opportunity recently to appear on Kurt and Kate in the Mornings on Moody Radio Florida. Andrew was in as a guest host for Kurt. We had a great conversation…check it out.

Featured Guest: Kurt and Kate in the Mornings

Workplace/Ministry: Moody Radio Florida

Martha and I have travelled all over the country and interviewed thousands of workplace believers living out their faith in their work in their own unique calling. One such person is Chuck Proudfit from Cincinnati Ohio. Chuck felt so compelled about living his faith out at work, while working at Proctor and Gamble that he decided to dedicate the rest of his life to equipping Christ Followers just like you to see God’s purpose for you at work. Chuck started At Work on Purpose in 2003 with the mission of mobilizing the work world for Christ, one irresistibly transformed work life at a time. His ministry has grown to impact much of the greater Cincinnati area and it is to Chuck Proudfit’s credit that the word Biznistry exists and has been repeated hundreds of times on this show.

Check out the Rapid Response Program on their website.

They have developed a Choices Profile to help people make choices on how to bring their faith to work. 

For the Orca Center:

1.     Co-work in a sub-urban environment, close to where people live.

2.    Keep it simple – the KISS principle

3.    Christians lead and interface

He is helping pastors to understand how to have creative outreach for the church.  Be the church where you are working.  Using Luke 10 – example of service as a guide. 

Chuck is a contributor to the iWork4Him Field Manual.

Featured Guest: Chuck Proudfit

Workplace/Ministry: At Work on Purpose - The Orca Center

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There are over 150 million people in the workforce today, 36% of them identifying themselves as born again believers which means there are 55 million believers at work. If research is accurate 3.3 million believers now connect their faith and their work. That leaves almost 52 Million believers who have yet to be activated in all areas of their faith life. 52 million Jesus followers who think like I did that in order to be in ministry they need to quit their job and work for a church or a Christian nonprofit ministry. How can we activate these fully funded missionaries? How can we take advantage of the church being extricated from its buildings because of Coronavirus? How can we, the church, bring healing to our broken land? Tonight we will tell you a bit of our story, a bit of the lay of the land in the faith and work movement and finally some practical tactical, factual and biblical perspectives on how to activate the 55 million Christ Followers who go to work every day and the 30 million of them who are retired. There might be some things we say tonight that offend your traditions and challenge your thinking but know this, our hearts are bound in Jesus. Forgive our boldness if it helps mobilize a nation of workplace believers to recognize the call on their lives so they can say iWork4Him.

Featured Guest: Jim & Martha Brangenberg

Workplace/Ministry: iWork4Him

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It’s no secret, there are millions of Christ Followers out there in the workforce and hundreds of thousands are running, leading or owning businesses, so where do they go to get discipled on how to live out their faith at work? Truth At Work was founded to disciple Christian Businesses owners and leaders. You can check them out online at www.TruthatWork.org. A few years back, Truth at work was looking for a great leader to launch their discipleship ministry in Tampa Bay and Mark Graham responded to the call. Mark is here with several of his group members to share what God is doing in their businesses as they learn to connect their faith to every aspect of their company.

Part 1 of a 2 part Interview

Featured Guest: Mark Graham

Workplace/Ministry: Truth At Work

Guests: Part 1
Greg Heckroth - FloridaSurgery Consultants
Jim Howard - Trinity Security Allies

YouTube Video Interview

Many times over the last 8 years we have talked about hearing from God on the steps we should take in our work or in our businesses but how does that work? Since we have an Unfair Advantage, access to the Holy Spirit of God who has access to the blueprints of heaven, how do we use that advantage to move our business in a direction that glorifies God and blesses our community? We don’t know all the answers but we have access to one business man from Austin Texas who has been pursuing the Lord in his Businesses over the last 4 decades. I have asked him to share his insights on how we discern the voice of God in our work/Business.

Tony told us a story of a patient that he tended to during his early years in medicine, during his surgical residency. The patient didn’t seem to have ordinary medical problems and God told Tony it wasn’t ordinary. He prayed about it and God eventually showed Tony and his wife the answer to the patients issues. Tony encourages us to be in the Word of God so we know His truth. Begin with the ordinary, so the extraordinary becomes more normal. Faith is spelled RISK – we get better at it the more risks we take. Tony reminded us that “His sheep hear His voice,” we are His sheep and we need to discern what He has to say.

Featured Guest: Tony Dale

Workplace/Ministry: Sedera

Check out Tony’s Blog - www.TonyDale.com

YouTube Video Interview

Almost 10 years ago a movement was started. Love 2020. Bringing an authentic touch of Jesus’ love to every person in the united states of America by the end of 2020. On iWork4Him we focused on bringing that authentic touch of Jesus to everyone we work with – the 150 million people in the work force today. It’s here. The end of 2020. How did we do? Are we done? Mission Accomplished? Kathy Branzell is here to talk to us about the successes and future opportunities given to us from the movement of Love2020. She is joined today by Mark Slaughter and John Kieffer who were integral parts of the Love2020 movement. We can’t wait to hear how we did.

It’s the End of 2020 but not the end of love.  They are going to take love and keep loving.  Announcing “United in Love” Using Col. 2:2 as a guide.

Featured Guest: Kathy Branzell, Mark Slaughter & John Kieffer

Workplace/Ministry: Love2020

YouTube Video Interview

As Christ Followers out in the Marketplace, should we look different, sound different and act different than our pre-Christian friends and competitors? If we run a business, or lead in an organization, what are the defining characteristics or qualities of a Great Christian Business Leader, or any leader proclaiming Christ as savior and Lord. Jesus changed all of us, including our ability to lead like Him. So Todd Hopkins has been working on this list, for himself and the young professionals he pours his life into on a regular basis. He wanted to share these 10 qualities with our audience so we can all put them into practice.

Today we will cover the final 5 qualities of a great Christian business leader but here are all 10 qualities.

Ten Qualities of Great Christian Business Leaders – #1-10

1. Protector of Gratitude

2. Committed to prayer, reading and learning – As leaders, our prayers must outpace normal people. For our people, organization and our self. Prayer of Jabez!

3. Challenge culture’s definition of success with God’s – Care more what God thinks than what people think. Many say this, yet what people think is influencing their decisions more than what God says.

4. Align personal and business goals with God’s calling

5. Committed to and implements system of distraction control – Good is enemy of great, residual distraction (we are addicted to distractions), environment, Stop using the “B” Word (busy)

6. Accesses Godly wisdom and authority to achieve calling (vs. in own strength)

7. Develops and grows future Christian leaders

8. The Great Christian Business Leader Has a journey focused vision, vs destination focused. – Consistent with the Great Commission, “as you go”

9. Calm in Crisis and Confident in Christ (Proverbs 3: 25-26)

10. Gives God the Credit – Pastor Tony Evans says the quickest way to reverse or stall greatness is to not give God the credit.)

Featured Guest: Todd Hopkins

Workplace/Ministry: Office Pride Franchise

YouTube Video Interview Qualities #6-10

iWork4Him Audio Podcast Qualities #1-5

YouTube Video Interview Qualities #1-5

Sales People – the world would not go around without sales people. Everything you touch all day long was sold by someone. EVERYTHING. So how do you know if you are dealing with an ethical salesperson? It should be a given that sales people should only sell you what you need but that isn’t the way it is, is it? How can you be a solid example of Jesus as a sales person in the dog eat dog world of the marketplace in the great United States of America in 2020 and coming in 2021? Well our guest for the day, Deb Brown Maher has written a book – Sell Like Jesus: 7 Characteristics of Christ for Ethical Sales. Deb thinks she can train a whole new generation of successful Christian Sales people who emulate Jesus in their sales approach.

Featured Guest: Deb Brown Maher

Workplace/Ministry: Deb Brown Sales & author of the book “Sell Like Jesus – 7 Characteristics of Christ for Ethical Sales” - Call the listener line to win a copy of her book 866-713-9675, 1 winner gets a signed copy

YouTube Video Interview

Its not very often that we get to interview someone who heard about iWork4Him and then reached out to us to talk about the impact of our ministry on their lives. We love to hear those stories because they keep us going each and every day. I am so thrilled today to introduce the iWork4Him Audience to Daniel & Jenna Greer from Colorado. Dan wrote to me and shared his faith and work story with me and I wanted you all to hear the story of Dan’s faith and work and his love for Jenna and their 4 kids!

Featured Guest: Daniel & Jenna Greer

Workplace/Ministry: God First Life Next & Eclipse DOT

YouTube Video Interview